E121: Grateful Dead — Ranking The 1972 Shows

In this, the Season 5 finale, we rank all 86 of the Grateful Dead's 1972 concerts, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of that venerable year in Dead history. In a sense, I've been working on this episode for two years now, as I listened to all 86 shows last year in preparation for this year! 

This year alone, I spent somewhere in the neighbourhood of 375 hours on this exercise, and created over 40,000 words of content between notes, spreadsheets, etc. A list like this can never be entirely objective, but I did try to make the process as refined as possible. It was a labour of love all the way, and I hope you enjoy it!

I also appeared on Workingman's Pod again recently to talk '72 Dead: https://rss.com/podcasts/workingmans-pod/749443/

Thank you all for a great year, and I'll see you sometime next month for Season 6!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Housekeeping
• 3:26 Rock Talk: Year In Review
• 11:50 Introduction
• 22:57 Grading Scheme & Methodology
• 33:29 [Ad] Texas Toast
• 34:07 (Cont.) Grading Scheme & Methodology
• 55:11 Score Revision Process
• 1:00:35 Ranking All 86 Shows
• 4:24:22 Trends Observed
• 4:39:28 Final Thoughts On 1972
• 4:42:42 Wrap-Up