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)"
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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://artmusictech.libsyn.com/podcast-340a-ned-lagin-part-one Podcast 340a: Ned Lagin (Part One)
http://www.darwingrosse.com/AMT/transcript-0340a.html Transcription: 0340 - Ned Lagin
https://artmusictech.libsyn.com/podcast-341-ned-lagin-part-ii Podcast 341: Ned Lagin (Part II)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s-H7OmVgKMo
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."