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Preserving the legacy, one story at a time. Documentaries about the Grateful Dead, made under one rule: would a 75-year-old head who has seen a hundred shows and read every book learn something new? If not, it doesn't get made. The books behind the research: https://www.amazon.com/shop/theshakedownarchives/list/37VV475276B4A Every video argues a thesis built out of the record. Claims are sourced and nothing is invented, and the drugs, the deaths and the money are neither glorified nor sanded off. All of it gets made out of love for this band, which is exactly why none of it gets sanitized. A Garcia without the addiction isn't a kinder portrait, it's a smaller one. Members get the Observatory, a research instrument built over every show on tape, so you can check me yourself. It never puts a fact behind a paywall. Somebody made you a copy. Pass it on. [email protected]
Bill Graham's Crowd Control Became a Six-Day Tent City
The Shakedown Archives · 8.5K views · 2 months ago
The Dead Took Acid. The Allmans Took Mushrooms. You Can Hear It.
The Shakedown Archives · 62K views · 7 days ago
The Missing Link Between Beats and Hippies
The Shakedown Archives · 16K views · 3 months ago
Why Jerry Garcia Never Turned On the Hells Angels
The Shakedown Archives · 62K views · 3 months ago
When the CIA Lost Control: MK-ULTRA & The Grateful Dead
The Shakedown Archives · 34K views · 9 months ago
How a 1930s Prison Blues Song Became A Grateful Dead Anthem: The Story of "I Know You Rider"
The Shakedown Archives · 28K views · 10 months ago
Phil Lesh Was the Hardest Man in the Dead
The Shakedown Archives · 53K views · 3 months ago
Why Jerry Garcia Couldn't Afford to Stop
The Shakedown Archives · 88K views · 9 days ago
Grateful Dead Didn't Write Their Most Played Song
The Shakedown Archives · 8.2K views · 1 month ago
The Real Story Behind ‘Casey Jones’ – Grateful Dead’s Cautionary Tale
The Shakedown Archives · 7.4K views · 11 months ago
A Con Man, Crab Sandwiches, and the Leanest Grateful Dead
The Shakedown Archives · 7.3K views · 3 months ago
How Neal Cassady Invented the Grateful Dead
The Shakedown Archives · 36K views · 4 months ago
Jerry Garcia's Guitar Tells You What Drug He Was On
The Shakedown Archives · 72K views · 5 months ago
The Grateful Dead Didn't Leave 710 Ashbury—They Were Pushed Out
The Shakedown Archives · 14K views · 5 months ago
The Grateful Dead’s Lyrics Started With MK-Ultra...Actually
The Shakedown Archives · 122K views · 1 month ago
The Two Nights That Made Europe '72...And Almost Killed It
The Shakedown Archives · 28K views · 6 months ago
1974: The Year the Grateful Dead Broke Down to Build Back Up
The Shakedown Archives · 15K views · 11 months ago
Jerry Garcia Could Never Walk Away — And It Killed Him
The Shakedown Archives · 19K views · 4 months ago
The Grateful Dead Lore Behind Workingman's Dead
The Shakedown Archives · 11K views · 1 month ago