Touch of Grey
Song by Grateful Dead
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Sep 25, 2026
John BuehlerHOST
I haven't had a push-up in like eight years, but that's okay.
Cody WilliamsHOST
If we hit 100 subscribers, I will do a push-up.
John BuehlerHOST
I was trying to make it as long as Jerry Garcia did with all my fingers, though.
John BuehlerHOST
That's right.
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John BuehlerHOST
They're not good.
Cody WilliamsHOST
No, sorry, Al.
Cody WilliamsHOST
Al's a Dolphins fan in addition to an Alabama fan, so I talk a lot of shit about his teams, unfortunately.
John BuehlerHOST
The highs of Georgia and the lows of the Falcons, it's just...
AlexHOST
I think it is their most iconic song.
AlexHOST
And Touch of Grey was their most commercially successful song.
AlexHOST
So that might be a song that maybe, counting-wise, the most people have heard before.
AlexHOST
Mm-hmm.
DamonPANELIST
BK, you have anything? Brian K?
Brian KPANELIST
I know like Grateful Dead, their last single, Touch of Grey, was their only number one single.
Brian S ReddHOST
Okay.
Brian KPANELIST
That's a great one.
Eric EngelHOST
I got this nice tie-dye hoodie on right now.
Eric EngelHOST
And I just got to say, you know, Touch of Gray really sums up Logan Webb's season to me.
Eric EngelHOST
And That song, if you're not, you know, a big deadhead, it's what you should go listen to it.
Eric EngelHOST
But two, it's about kind of like still like pushing through, even though life isn't always awesome and like finding just like, you know, a thing or two to to kind of like hold on to while you're pushing through, you know.
Eric EngelHOST
There's been all sorts of weirdness with Logan Webb this season, but One thing remains.
Eric EngelHOST
He will get by.
Eric EngelHOST
So Logan Webb, Touch of Gray.
Eric EngelHOST
Fun fact, Touch of Gray, last song Bob Weir ever played in his musical career right here in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
Adam ReaderHOST
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speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
pop hit, the surprise No. 9 smash from 1987, Touch of Gray.
Adam ReaderHOST
How it happened, really interesting.
Adam ReaderHOST
Robert Hunter was born in San Luis Obispo, California.
Adam ReaderHOST
Now, one of those fateful late night sessions, this was back in 1980, Robert Hunter, sky high, while devouring an eight ball of cocaine, he stayed up all night.
Adam ReaderHOST
racing with thoughts and frantically scribbling.
Adam ReaderHOST
When dawn arrived, he wrote the song Touch of Gray.
Adam ReaderHOST
As the sun came up, Hunter had snorted every grain of blow and was coming down hard from an all-night binge.
The ProfessorHOST
I hope you enjoy it.
The ProfessorHOST
Starts out with a touch of gray, and I want you to, you know, you'll hear Phil really pounding it throughout here.
The ProfessorHOST
It's certainly a present on that song.
The ProfessorHOST
Very nicely done.
Jerry GarciaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Draw the curtains, I don't care, cause it's all right.
Jerry GarciaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I will get by.
Jerry GarciaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I will get by I will get by I will survive I see you've got your mist out Say you're peace and get out Yes, I get the gist of it But it's all right Sorry that you feel that way The only thing there is to say Every silver lining's got a touch of gray I will get by I will get by I will get by I will survive It's a lesson to me The heavens and the plains and the sea The ABCs we all must face It's a lesson to me.
Jerry GarciaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The deltas and the east and the fringes.
FaceHOST
They said some bad stuff in there.
WilkiePANELIST
1987, Touch of Gray by the Grateful Dead hits number 10.
WilkiePANELIST
It's their only hit song on the charts.
FaceHOST
First Grateful Dead song I ever
Mike GaramGUEST
So no, not really.
Eric SenichHOST
I'll tell you, uh, the one that occurred to me just recently, because I did an e- an episode on this great book on, on the success of Touch of Grey by the Grateful Dead, and it never really clicked in my head that the resurgence of the '90s jam scene was because of Touch of Grey's success, because by that, by 1987, the jam band scene-
Mike GaramGUEST
That's right
Eric SenichHOST
... had, pretty much had been dead and buried.
Eric SenichHOST
Yes
Mike GaramGUEST
... essentially, you know?
Eric SenichHOST
So if Touch of Grey never happened, does, does that whole scene- ... happen, right? See, we could go on
Mike GaramGUEST
Yeah, it, we could
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
Warner Brothers rushed out a three-minute single version.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
It reached number 64 on the pop charts, the Dead's most successful single until Touch of Grey in 1987.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
But there was a secret on that album track.
Rich BonnifaceNARRATOR
An alternate mix exists where the song fades out just as the band launches into a lengthy blues jam.
Jon NicholsonGUEST
I
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
saw the video for Touch of Grey somewhere like in public recently in like a bar or something.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
And it scared the shit out of me.
Shawn O'SullivanHOST
That shit's...
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