Little Hippie Life
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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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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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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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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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Journalists and Primary Sources on the Grateful Dead
Did you ever want to turn into a fly on the wall, so long as it was in a room where your favorite legend was being interviewed by a great...
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Jerry Garcia’s Harrington Street Outtake
The book Harrington Street was not completed before Jerry Garcia’s death, but is billed as an autobiography of the musician and author until age 10. The Grateful Dead’s current exhibition...
