The Deadcast season finale hits shows at 3 legendary venues, exploring Dick Latvala’s transformative experience at Red Rocks ‘79, Hollie Rose’s tour journal, the wonders of the Alpine Valley parking lot, & when Shakedown Street got its name.
Enjoying the Ride: On Tour supplementary notes
by Jesse Jarnow
Future Grateful Dead archivist Dick Latvala had seen the Dead countless times by the time he flew from Hawaii to see them at Red Rocks in 1979, but he had an extremely life-changing weekend. He told David Gans about the experience on Grateful Dead Hour #267, and Bill Walton offered an assist, telling his part of the story on the Pardon My Take podcast. We fill out Dick Latvala’s onboarding story in our Inside the Vault episode. If the shirt Bill Walton describes matches any you know of, please get in touch with the Deadhead Style Archive.
This episode shines a light on two very different projects that document Dead Head life, both decades in the making, Bill Lemke’s Aging Gratefully matches Lemke’s gorgeous large-format portraits from the 1980s with contemporary images of the same subjects. And Hollie A. Rose’s When Push Comes To Shove: Real Life on Dead Tour offers Rose’s tour journals, circa 1988-1992, with an audiobook coming soon. Her website tracks books by and about Dead Heads, and she’s especially interested in any other tour journals that might survive.
Phil Garfinkel is a host on KBOO’s Grateful Dead and Friends.
The students of Rebecca Adams’s class produced Deadhead Social Science: You Ain’t Gonna Learn What You Don’t Wanna Know and were documented in the short film Dead Heads: An American Subculture.
