Little Hippie Life
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Owlsley’s Eleven Great Grateful Dead Books for Little Hippies
We’re catching up on Michael Hamad’s piece Deadhead Scholars, Fans Marking 50 Years Of Grateful Dead: On the scholarship front, several new books about the Dead, some of which draw upon...
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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...
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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...
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Phil Lesh Learned About Struggling for Art from Composer Charles Ives
You’ve probably heard about what it is to struggle to be an artist. Some have struggled pretty hard, including a music composer named Charles Edward Ives (left), who was largely...
