Category: books
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Reading Notes: Kreutzmann, Bill, with Benjy Eisen. 2015. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press.
Kreutzmann, Bill, with Benjy Eisen. 2015. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press. This wasn’t as bad as I had feared it might be. You can see that I switched half-way through to endnotes. I have been thinking that works best, all things…
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Signpost to a New Space and Stoned Sunday Rap – Dates
I have just finished transcribing the parts of particular interest to me from Signpost to a New Space and the Stoned Sunday Rap (Garcia, Reich and Wenner 2003 [1972]), and I have now posted reading notes. Me being me, I have always wondered about the dates of these sessions. Here is the timeline for what…
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Harrington $treet
On January 19, 1994 Hal Kant, under Legally Dead cover, sent Jerry executed copies of the contract for what would become Harrington Street. Kant had negotiated a $550,000 advance for the volume, enough to net Jerry a cool half-million after the lawyer’s 9% came off the top. Kant told Jerry he’d put the money in…
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“M.G. is writing a book”
http://danb.altervista.org/Default.htm 07/06/15 – From p.84 of the July/August 2015 issue of Relix: [Trixie Garcia is now] on the board of the Grateful Dead with the band’s surviving members—Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart. In many ways, she has become Garcia’s avatar. . . She’s excited that M.G. is writing a book. She’s relieved…
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Jerry on Jerry
http://www.kentucky.com/2015/06/23/3913570/book-of-jerry-garcia-interviews.html A book of previously unreleased Jerry Garcia interviews is coming out this fall to mark the 20th anniversary of his death and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Grateful Dead. Hachette Book Group imprint Black Dog & Levanthal announced Tuesday that “Jerry on Jerry” will be published in November. The book will…
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Signpost
I have started trying to transcribe everything I need out of Signpost to a New Space (Garcia, Reich and Wenner 2003 [1972]). Terrible title on amazing material. It’s going to be quite a process, don’t hold your breath. I hope it doesn’t takes as long as NRPS-Matrix-1970-07, “Jerry and the Jeffersons, part I”, or some…
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Folk Songs of North America, 1: cover
Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. See also map and all front matter.
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Weir’s Book
Since books are in the air (and when, in the Good Life, aren’t they), I thought I’d note that Weir says he plans to write his own. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/bob-weir-on-dead-reunion-his-doc-and-being-jerrys-bag-man-20150520 Bring it on!
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Creative Destruction
Reminder of the state of my copy of McNally 2002 as of 3/6/2011, under heading “is it possible to love books too much?” Also in the frame: papers, printer, CD Will The Circle Be Unbroken, CD The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary, Legion Of Mary (Rhino Records R2 74692, August 2005), a…
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Positively Garcia and the East Coast Deadhead
I. Howard Weiner’s Positively Garcia Howard Weiner‘s very enjoyable Positively Garcia (Weiner 2014) is like a better-written, more musical, less arcane version of my listening notes, great flashing insights on the same issues that occupy Corry, without the depth. That’s not a criticism, by the way: it is light in the sense of being quick…