custom route
Build a path from a song, era, lineup, venue, or mood.
Describe what you are chasing, choose the number of stops, and Deadhead High will shape a route from the catalog.
a guided map through the live dead universe
Deadhead High
Pick a path or a show
Head to the music
Track it all here
Follow paths, find individual shows, spin the wheel, or open the Daily. It is all about the music.
Today's Daily Dead
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deadhead library
Good places to keep digging.
Internet Archive
The main public listening shelf for live Grateful Dead recordings and source pages.
Relisten
A fast way to stream shows by date, tape, and year when you want to press play.
JerryBase
Deep setlist, venue, song, and personnel research for the Dead and Garcia family bands.
Grateful Dead Archive
UCSC's online collection of posters, photos, interviews, fanzines, and ephemera.
David Dodd's Song Notes
David Dodd's Greatest Stories Ever Told essays on lyrics, song history, references, and Dead scholarship.
DeadDisc
Discographies, official releases, guest credits, song listings, and release details.
ways in
Choose where to begin.
Start with a guided path, today’s pick, a show search, or your own trail through the music.
Pick a path. Press play.
family tree
The map starts with the Grateful Dead, then leaves room for the branches listeners naturally follow: Jerry Garcia Band, Dead & Company, Phil & Friends, RatDog, solo Jerry, and beyond.
the main attraction
Listening Paths.
Open a route to see why these shows belong together, what to listen for, and how far you’ve gotten.
Every path needs a reason.
listening paths
Pick a route through the live catalog.
Each path has a reason, a sequence, and a next stop. Use the route map to jump between shows, then open the detail that explains why the stop belongs.
named after the song
The Wheel.
Spin for a show worth hearing.
The Wheel picks from guided eras, songs, famous sequences, and hidden-gem routes when you do not know what to play next.
The Wheel favors the kind of shows people recommend for a reason: famous peaks, historical moments, and hidden gems.
daily ritual
Daily Dead.
Song of the Day, a featured show, and first and last performances where that song appears.
Song of the Day, featured show, and known performances.
research queue
Show Research.
Draft show notes from the research assistant, ready for source review before they become public guide copy.
Drafts first. Guide copy after review.
daily trivia
Test Your Head.
A quick way to pick up context without walking into a gatekeeping contest.
Know more. Hear more.
liquid light room
Lights.
Psychedelic visuals for listening sessions: space drift, liquid color, stars, mandalas, and sunshine when the music wants a room.
Put on a show. Let the room move.
show check-in
The show list.
Search by date, venue, city, year, era, song, or tag. Check-ins and notes stay synced across the whole site.
Every date is a doorway.
Use one search for dates, venues, cities, states, songs, tags, eras, and plain-language filters. Anything you check here also checks off inside Paths, Daily, Wheel, and My Dead.
my dead
Your trail.
Shows listened, shows attended, favorites, ratings, notes, badges, and the little markers you leave behind.
Keep the weird little trophies.
why it exists
A guide for the live catalog.
Deadhead High helps listeners choose a show, understand why it matters, keep a personal trail, and then open the right source when it is time to play.
Relisten is the road. This is the painted map.
Deadhead High is built around the thing Relisten and Archive do not fully solve: a guided, personal, collectible way to move through a massive live catalog.
Think of it as a living concert poster, a listening journal, and a way to keep your own trail through the music. It does not try to trap you in another player. Deadhead High helps you choose what to hear, then gets you to the music.
Show availability and listening links come from Archive and Relisten. Deadhead High is a free, non-commercial fan project and does not host audio. Setlist data is sourced from gdshowsdb, an MIT-licensed project by Jeff Smith.
deadhead high blog
Coming soon.
Sunshine Daydreamer will share personal show reflections, launch notes, and what it feels like to use Deadhead High in the wild. Scarbot Begonias will handle feature notes, updates, and technical field reports.
Sunshine Daydreamer
Coming soon: show reflections.
Sunshine Daydreamer shares personal show reflections, launch notes, listening-life notes, and what Deadhead High feels like from the inside.
Coming soon
Scarbot Begonias
Coming soon: field notes.
Scarbot Begonias shares site updates, feature notes, technical issues, fixes, and practical notes about what changed.
Coming soon