Category: reading notes
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Notes from Dawson 2011 re Nicky Hopkins
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Reading Notes: McNally 2002
McNally, Dennis. 2002. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. New York: Broadway Books. What a book. This, and Jackson’s Garcia: An American Life have set a bar that I can only see from far below. Yes, my original copy is in six pieces, so well-loved has it been. But you also…
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Reading Notes: basic method
I have my research methods. They are time-consuming, but I think they work well. For long written works, they involve several layers of activity. 1) reading, marginal notes, etc. 2) going back through and a) typing direct quotes, with Author, Year, Page reference [for hard copies], or b) copying and pasting direct quotes, with Author,…
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Reading Notes: Greenfield 1996
I have read this book a few times, and it has clearly informed my thinking about a lot of issues without my really being aware of it. So I finally got around to transcribing some notes in the way that I do. I guess this book was controversial (and maybe still is), but to me…
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Reading Notes: Jackson and Gans 2015
Jackson, Blair and David Gans. 2015. This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead. Flatiron Books. Blair Jackson and David Gans, like Dennis McNally and David Browne earlier in my reading year, exceed my very high expectations. I don’t generally do book reviews, and won’t here, either, but I…
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Reading Notes: Browne 2015
Browne, David. 2015. So Many Roads: The Life And Times Of The Grateful Dead. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press [a member of the Perseus Books Group]. I stand by my initial assessment – this book is the real deal, chock full of great tidbits, fluently written. This is a great addition to the canon, standing…
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Reading Notes: McNally 2015
McNally, Dennis, ed. 2015. Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers. I didn’t quite know what to expect. On a read, it felt like this was all material that I already knew. From a strictly informational perspective I didn’t feel like I got anything I didn’t know…
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Reading Notes: Arthur Koestler, Act of Creation
This book has had tremendous impact on me. Single logic of creation comedy, science and art Blurb: “bisociative thinking” – the creative leap which connects previously unconnected frames of reference and makes us experience reality on several planes at once. “there are no frontiers where the realm of science ends and that of art begins,…
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Reading Notes: Goodman 1989
Goodman, Fred. 1989. Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview. Rolling Stone no. 566 (November 30, 1989): 66-68, 73-74, 118 Garcia says he has “vacillated furiously” over the years as to whether he wanted to stay with the Dead or not (Goodman 1989, 68). “The most cogent example of how my life is changing is that…
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Reading Notes: Henke 1991
I wasn’t paying attention at the time, but my sense is that these September 1991 interviews (I think there might have been some separate remarks in the Boston Globe) caused a good deal of consternation in Deadlandia – and why not? The golden-egg-laying-goose sounds like he’d love to leave the reservation at this point. Lots…