Category: books
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Horses, cocaine and, 231
So many books. Took my Kreutzmann 2015, no time to really engage it, but wanted to commune with it a little bit, form some expectations. Glad there is an index, just opened to the back and my eye drew to the entry “horses, cocaine and, 231”. “hotels, destruction at, 314” sounds promising, too. Sounds like…
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Deal
Kreutzmann 2015 has landed. When will I be able to give it the time? Not sure, but at some point (if the FSM wills it). I haven’t even opened it, because no time. I don’t know if I expect it to enter The Canon (Jackson 1999, McNally 2002, Lesh 2006, Richardson 2015, Arnold ongoing-A, ongoing-B,…
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Books post updated
jgmf.blogspot.com/2014/12/books.html I did manage to get some reading done, have updated the post with some very brief thoughts on some recent books.
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Books
2015, being the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Grateful Dead and the 20th anniversary of the death of Jerry Garcia, is an absolute frenzy of the written word, part of a broader orgy of production and consumption, Mr. Supply and Ms. Demand doing the cha-cha. This post is mostly about the deluge of…
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Richard Loren: High Notes
Richard Loren is publishing a memoir in November. This I am very much looking forward to! http://www.jambands.com/news/2014/07/29/former-grateful-dead-manager-to-release-memoir Former Grateful Dead manager Richard Loren will release his memoir, High Notes: A Rock Memoir: Working with Rock Legends Jefferson Airplane Through The Doors to the Grateful Dead, in November. The book, which features a forward by David…
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Positively Garcia
http://visionsofdylan.blogspot.com/2014/07/positively-garcia-howard-weiners-new.html Jamming in the shadows of the Grateful Dead, the Jerry Garcia Band thrilled devoted fans for three decades with an alchemist’s brew of blues, rock, jazz, and gospel, as well as Motown and Dylan covers. Positively Garcia is the story of the rise of the Jerry Garcia Band from their early California club gigs…
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Sci Fi
Anyone know if Garcia ever copped to reading, or more tantalizingly still, might ever have met, Philip K. Dick?
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RN Sandy Troy’s Captain Trips (1994)
Reading Notes Troy, Sandy. 1994. Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press. JG devoted to music Troy 1994, xiii JG was into all kinds of music: folk, bluegrass, country, acid rock, R&B, gospel, jazz. But he never dabbled, he always “plunged in” Troy 1994, xiii Jose Ramon Garcia emigrated from…
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RN Sandy Troy’s One More Saturday Night (1991)
Troy, Sandy. 1991. One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Reading Notes “by the fall of 1974 the band’s business ventures began to unravel” (Troy 1991, 27). #business JG and MG moved in together early 1967 (Troy 1991, 68). #women #v-Carousel as described…
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The One and only book of Dead lists, 1974-1985
Does anyone have a hard copy of this that they might consider scanning? [“Have rare vintage lists to trade”!?!? :)]? Better, anyone have a scanned copy? Best, anyone have , or know anyone who might have, a hard copy that they’d be willing to part with? I’d like to add this to the JGMF archives,…