BONUS: Dead Behind / Dead Ahead
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In the fall of 1980, the Grateful Dead celebrated their 15th anniversary with a series of 25 special shows in San Francisco, New Orleans, and Manhattan, playing acoustic sets for the first time in a decade, along with two electric sets each night, The shows would yield the live double-albums Reckoning and Dead Set, as well as a Halloween simulcast that became the concert film Dead Ahead, We went behind this massive undertaking for a special bonus episode of the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast.
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