Little Hippie Life
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Strangers Stopping Strangers Podcast
Hey Little Hippie Tribe! If you’ve ever wanted to know more about how and why Taylor started Little Hippie, what it means to her, and what has inspired her along...
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The Best Rock N Roll Memoirs & Biographies
Rock N Roll memoirs are some of my favorite books to read. They’re personal, fun, full of drama and they contain lots of interesting recent history. They can make you laugh,...
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Fund Dreaming with Entrepreneurs Taylor Swope and Yulia Laricheva
I recently got together with Yulia Laricheva to record an episode of her new podcast, Dream Nation. Yulia is the founder of Fund Dreamer, a global crowdfunding platform for social...
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Thoughts on Long Strange Trip
When the long awaited, highly anticipated Grateful Dead documentary, Long Strange Trip, had its premiere at Sundance a few months ago, I was lucky enough to attend and sit in...
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February 2, 1970 is the Day Modern Concert Production Was Born
Just reading Steve Harvey over at the AV Network talking about the event that kicked off modern concert sound production. While various individuals and companies were simultaneously working on developing bigger...
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Visiting the Grateful Dead Archive At UC Santa Cruz
Little Hippie recently had the pleasure of meeting Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas G. Meriwether while visiting the Grateful Dead Archive at University of California at Santa Cruz. The Grateful Dead Archive is...
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Defining Grateful Dead, With Primary Sources
Every now and again you meet with an object that gives you physical proximity, and makes you feel a connection to a moment that resonates deeply across time and space. In this...
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The Grateful Dead are Universal When it Comes to Folk Motifs
When we visited with Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas G. Meriwether at UC Santa Cruz, he was kind enough to give us a tour of their current exhibition on the literary tradition...
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Jerry Garcia Learned New Realm of Improv from Lenny Bruce
On October 4, 1961, comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco on obscenity charges for saying what amounted to “two four-letter words and a preposition.”...
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Reading Theodore Sturgeon, the Grateful Dead are More Than Human
The science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon’s novel More Than Human was a fascinating connection of perspectives in the literary tradition and timeline on exhibit at the Grateful Dead Archive at UC...
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The Grateful Dead’s Ice Nine is a Vonnegut Reference
“Cats’s Cradle is basically nothing more than a kind of whimsical but dark vision of Pandora’s box and technology run amok,” said Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas G. Meriwether at UC...
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Posters of Haight Ashbury are ‘Leaves in a Disbound Book’
“Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley always claimed that they photocopied that book, they didn’t, they cut it out with a pen knife. So this is not that copy,” Grateful Dead Archivist...
