Full Cast And Crew5 Aug 2025

239. Dead & Company 60th Anniversary Shows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

Dead & Company's 60th Anniversary three-show stand is an opportunity to talk about about the living history that the band's music represents, the ongoing and still-vital multi-generational pull of the concerts, which drew about 175,000 people, and the fascinating real-time challenge represented by sitting in with the band. Using Sturgill Simpson and Trey Anastasio as examples of how players find a space for their instrument to occupy in the band's sonic tapestry, I dive into the sink-or-swim weirdness of entering this telepathic onstage space and speculate on what could be next for the band and the songs.

You can watch the first songs of all the nights here on YouTube.

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Check out nugs.net for the streaming 4K videos of the Dead & Co Golden Gate and other shows.

Vertex Effects 'The Guitarist Behind' Series is fantastic. This is the Wendy Melvoin one referenced in the episode. Other favorite are the Michael Thompson, Darryl Stuermer, Tim May, Ray Parker, Jr, Dean Parks, and Eddie Martinez.

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295. Dolly Parton & UK Crime Show Recs

Summer's rapidly ending and it's time to get back to the FCAC rhythm and routine. Some thoughts on the passing of Dolly Parton and some UK crime shows I've been watching of late, notably the Apple TV...

28 Aug 31min

294. 'Crossing Delancey' (1988)

Joan Micklin Silver's 1988 NYC love-letter/romantic comedy Crossing Delancey is one of the superlative NYC films of all time. And watching it today, it's hard not to mourn the loss of the sense of col...

28 Jul 1h 28min

293. Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' (2026)

Go and see 'The Odyssey' in the biggest and best theater you can. You won't regret it. A rollicking great epic cinematic event. Historian Tom Holland interviews Actor Tom Holland on The Rest is Histor...

21 Jul 28min

292. Robert Redford in 'The Candidate' (1972)

Michael Ritchie and Redford's still-searingly satiric and spot-on takedown of political operatives and image crafting, peddling, and pandering in the modern campaign-industrial complex speaks louder t...

17 Jul 1h 38min

291. Listening to The Beatles in Ireland

On a recent trip through Ireland with my daughter, I unexpectedly got back into The Beatles...this is the story.

8 Jul 1h 8min

290. 'Dogfight' (1991)

Nancy Savoca & Bob Comfort's wonderful jewel-box gem of an American independent film from 1991.

2 Jul 1h 10min

289. 'Running On Empty' (1988)

Sidney Lumet and Naomi Foner (and Executive Producers Griffin Dunne and Lisa Robinson) took what in lesser hands would be a family melodrama and allowed it to become an incredibly mature, layered, com...

23 Jun 1h 22min

288. [indistinct chatter] 6/19

In this weeks [indistinct chatter] episode: Disclosure Day The Social Reckoning Clarkson's Farm Season 5 Next Week's Episode of Movies I I Haven't Seen. Musings, anecdotes, recriminations.

19 Jun 47min