NED LAGIN
NED LAGIN
Podcasts
"Nedcast", an in depth and extensive Deadcast interview with Ned, in which he talks about composing "Seastones", playing live, his album "Cat Dreams", the Grateful Dead, and more, is up on: https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bonus-nedcast-ned-lagin "Deadcast BONUS: The Nedcast With Ned Lagin"; also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Ox9Z-mlSQ "The Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Season 2 BONUS: The Nedcast | American Beauty 50". "Nedcast" was not Ned's idea for a title of this podcast.
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I also appear in the following Deadcast podcast episodes:
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/american-beauty-episode-5-candyman "Deadcast - American Beauty, Episode 5: Candyman"; also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCklcDXzSI The Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Season 2 - Episode 5: Candyman | American Beauty 50"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/american-beauty-episode-6-ripple "Deadcast - American Beauty, Episode 6: Ripple"; also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Ox9Z-mlSQ "The Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Season 2 - Episode 6: Ripple | American Beauty 50"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/long-strange-tech-part-1 "Long Strange Tech, Part 1" (season 6, episode 9); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adwn9z8a3U4 "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Long Strange Tech, Part 1 (S06 E09)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-unbroken-chain "From the Mars Hotel 50: Unbroken Chain" (season 9, episode 3); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YROWk2M5V6Q "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: From the Mars Hotel 50: Unbroken Chain (S09 E03)". The transcript of this episode: https://www.dead.net/mars-hotel-50-unbroken-chain "From the Mars Hotel 50: Unbroken Chain."
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-pride-cucamonga "From the Mars Hotel 50: Pride of Cucamonga" (season 9, episode 6); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDBEPF-mxkw "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: From the Mars Hotel 50: Pride of Cucamonga (S09 E06)." The transcript of this episode: https://www.dead.net/mars-hotel-50-pride-cucamonga "From the Mars Hotel 50: Pride of Cucamonga."
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-money-money "From the Mars Hotel 50: Money Money" (season 9, episode 7); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33FscqJ_bOs "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: From the Mars Hotel 50: Money Money (S09 E07)." The transcript of this episode: https://www.dead.net/mars-hotel-50-money-money "From the Mars Hotel 50: Money Money."
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/phil-85-part-2 "Phil 85, Part 2" (season 11, episode 2); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBn2loz-dUE "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Phil 85, Part 2 (S11 E02)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-ride-bay-area-part-1 "Enjoying the Ride: Bay Area, Part 1" (season 11, episode 3); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01CBCkxnjy0 "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Enjoying the Ride: Bay Area, Part 1 (S11 E03)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-ride-east-coast-part-1 "Enjoying the Ride: East Coast, Part 1" (season 11, episode 5); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3INJY5tJTo "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Enjoying the Ride: East Coast, Part 1 (S11 E05)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/blues-allah-50-help-way "Blues For Allah 50: Help On the Way" (season 12, episode 2); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO1sq6UiyIY "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Blues For Allah 50: Help On the Way (S12 E02)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/blues-allah-50-slipknot "Blues For Allah 50: Slipknot!" (season 12, episode 3); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpMnsEIITuc "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Blues For Allah 50: Slipknot! (S12 E03)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/blues-allah-50-king-solomons-marblesstronger-dirt-or-milkin-turkey "Blues For Allah 50: King Solomon’s Marbles/Stronger Than Dirt or Milkin’ The Turkey" (season 12, episode 5); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK6zQkbkxVs "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Blues For Allah 50: King Solomon’s Marbles/Stronger Than Dirt (S12 E05)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/blues-allah-50-crazy-fingers "Blues For Allah 50: Crazy Fingers" (season 12, episode 7); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnc8_kJEa0c "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Blues For Allah 50: Crazy Fingers (S12 E07)"
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/blues-allah-50-blues-allah "Blues For Allah 50: Blues For Allah" (season 12, episode 9); also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BEmVFZvw70 "Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Blues For Allah 50: Blues For Allah (S12 E09)"
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A two part podcast (with transcriptions) in which Ned talks with Darwin Grosse about art and technology, his composition "Seastones", and more, is up on:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6PcszCIokjk8m0BdSRMEin Podcast 340a: Ned Lagin (Part One)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWw_1F2omC8 41:47 Podcast 340a: Ned Lagin (Part One)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240624040404/http://www.darwingrosse.com/AMT/transcript-0340a.html Transcription: 0340 - Ned Lagin
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vsBmqjxfo2RTw5yCLkuGS Podcast 341: Ned Lagin (Part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-H7OmVgKMo 1:08:20 Podcast 341: Ned Lagin (Part II)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240624040510/http://www.darwingrosse.com/AMT/transcript-0341.html Transcription: 0341 - Ned Lagin
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Radio Shows and Interviews
Ned, his music, and short interviews were the feature of the November 3, 2022 episode of "Bring Out Your Dead" on WXNA:
https://www.wxnafm.org/broadcasts/27806 November 3, 2022 - Bring Out Your Dead
00:00 Intro
03:00 "Candyman" by Grateful Dead on "American Beauty" (Rhino/Warner Records)
09:00 "Unbroken Chain" by Grateful Dead on "From the Mars Hotel" (Grateful Dead/Rhino)
19:00 "II" by Ned Lagin, Phil Lesh on "Seastones" (Round)
23:00 Interview w/ Darwin Grosse by Ned Lagin on Podcast 341: Ned Lagin (Part II) (n/a)
25:00 "Seastones (excerpt)" by Grateful Dead on Grateful Dead Live at Alexandra Palace on 1974-09-11 (self released)
29:00 "Seastones (excerpt)" by Grateful Dead on Grateful Dead Live at Alexandra Palace on 1974-09-11 (self released)
36:00 "Low Down Payment" by Jerry Garcia and Friends (David Crosby, Ned Lagin, and Merl Saunders) on Live at Ace’s (SNACK Rehearsal) on 1975-03-17 (self released)
47:00 "Playing in the Band" by Grateful Dead on Live at Palais Des Sports on 1974-09-21 (self released)
59:59 end
https://wxna.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/deadwxna/deadwxna_2022-11-03_20-00-00.mp3
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An interview with Ned by David Gans was broadcast during the KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon on February 3, 2001. The transcript is at http://www.gdhour.com/transcripts/lagin.010203.html
Ned's appearance on February 3, 2001 during the KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon and his interview with David Gans was re-broadcast on the "Grateful Dead Hour No. 715" during the week of June 3, 2002:
Grateful Dead Hour no. 715
Part 1 38:22
00:00 01:29 Introduction
01:29 6:54 Interview: Ned Lagin
08:23 5:25 Ned Lagin, David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann 3/17/75 (unreleased studio recording) - "Ned's #1"
13:48 0:42 Interview: Ned Lagin
14:30 0:18 Talk
14:48 10:17 Interview: Ned Lagin
25:05 13:06 Ned Lagin & Phil Lesh 9/18/74 Dijon, France - "Seastones"
38:11 0:11 ID
Part 2 18:08
38:57 0:08 Introduction
39:05 6:57 Interview: Ned Lagin
46:02 8:26 Ned Lagin, David Crosby, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann 3/17/75 (unreleased studio recording) - "Ned's #4"
54:28 0:46 Interview: Ned Lagin
55:14 1:51 Outro
https://sos2208.akamaized.net/download/rhino/gdead/gdhour/gdh715_podcast.mp3
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Ph. D. Thesis
"The Grateful Dead and Their World: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1965-75", a thesis dissertation by Dr. Melvin Backstrom, Ph.D. at McGill University, was completed and approved in December 2017. The 401 page PDF is available online: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=150706.
Dr. Backstrom's dissertation captures in detail the intertwined popular and avant-garde new music that was created in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1965 and 1975. Specifically, Chapter Four (pages 230-306), and Appendices D, E, and F are about Ned and "Seastones" within the larger perspective of the thesis. This in-depth research and analysis constitutes the first academic and musicological study about "Seastones."
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Books
An extensive interview with Ned Lagin by David Gans from February and August, 2001 appears in the "Ned Lagin" chapter of the book "Conversations With The Dead" (Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002).
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"This Is All a Dream We Dreamed" by Blair Jackson and David Gans (Flatiron Books, New York, 2015) includes an interview with Ned in "Coda No. 3 - Ned Lagin: Electronic Whiz Kid". Excerpts of interviews with Ned also appear in "Chapter 4 - Psychedelic Americana" and "Chapter 6 - Independence."
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"Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection" by Brian Anderson (St. Martin's Press / MacMillan, June 17, 2025) includes a number of entries about Ned, "Seastones," touring in 1974, playing through the Wall of Sound, and photos of Ned onstage at the 07-21-74 and 08-06-74 concerts.