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9780028648965

Dead Reckonings : The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead

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  • ISBN13:

    9780028648965

  • ISBN10:

    002864896X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-03-01
  • Publisher: Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books
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Summary

Photos, memoirs, magazine stories, and cartoons tracing the career of the ebullient psychedelic band from its mid-1960's genesis to guitarist Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii
The Transcendent Dead On the Fiery Hunt
i
PART ONE Ineluctable Modality of the Audible: The Dead in Context ii
Dropouts with a Mission
13(7)
The Grateful Dead
20(20)
Michael Lydon
Pieces of ``Tools From My Chest'' from Kesey's Garage Sale
40(7)
Ken Kesey
Kesey: A Day on the Farm
47(23)
Blair Jackson
From Naked Angels
70(18)
John Tytell
Bob Dylan, Harry Smith, and the Beats in the Dead
79(9)
John Rocco
For A. G.
88(1)
George Kaplan
Chronicles of the Dead
89(14)
Rock Scully
David Dalton
From Woodstock: The Oral History
103(7)
Joel Makower
Woodstock & Altamont: The Gargantua and Pantagruel of Grateful Dead Failures
109(1)
George Kaplan
Crank Up the Old Victrola: Discovering the Grateful Dead's Earliest Influences
110(3)
Jason Schneider
The Dead in the '60s: A History Lesson from the BBC
113(8)
Blair Jackson
Grateful Dead: Acid Daze & Further Ahead
121(13)
Steve Sutherland
Playing in the Band
134(7)
David Fricke
Mourning for Jerry: We Haven't Left the Planet Yet
141(6)
Rebecca G. Adams
PART TWO Move Me Brightly: Through Time with the Dead 147(84)
The Awakening of the Dead
149(5)
Charles M. Young
From Miles: The Autobiography
154(5)
From Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes: IVES, Charles (1874--1954)
159(3)
Richard Kostelanetz
This Must Be Heaven: Memories of My First Show
162(7)
Blair Jackson
Performance Review of Europeras 3 & 4 by John Cage and a Grateful Dead Show
169(3)
Susan Suntree
``Tuning In'': Daniel Webster, Alfred Schutz, and the Grateful Dead
172(9)
Granville Ganter
Reflections on My Years with the Grateful Dead
181(4)
Merl Saunders
Jim Rosenthal
Who Else Would Name a Foundation for a Roadie?
185(3)
J. Peder Zane
The Grateful Dead: Questions of Survival
188(11)
Richard Tillinghast
Grateful Dead: 1983--84 New Year's
199(4)
Paul Gruskin
Robert Hunter: Keeping it Alive in '85
203(3)
Jeff Tamarkin
Bill Kreutzmann/Mickey Hart: Rhythm Devils
206(5)
Chris Vaughan
Bonding with the Grateful Dead
211(4)
George Plimpton
The Further Festival at Shoreline
215(4)
J. C. Juanis
From Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes: Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928-- )
219(2)
Richard Kostelanetz
Introduction #4 Pre→Post→Dead Noise, or, A Punk Look at the Dead
221(10)
John Rocco
PART THREE Three Ways of Talking to Jerry Garcia 231(40)
Recording Built to Last: An Interview with Garcia
232(13)
Blair Jackson
Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview
245(15)
James Henke
Still Truckin'
260(11)
Bill Barich
Part Four Not Fade Away 271(26)
From Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads: Pigpen (Ron McKernan)
274(4)
David Shenk
Steve Silberman
End of the Beginning
278(3)
Robert Stone
The Dark Star Burns Out
281(4)
Steve Bloom
He Let His Music Do the Talking
285(3)
Jon Pareles
Good-Bye for Now
288(4)
Tom Constanten
The False Notes He Never Played
292(5)
Ken Kesey
Selected Bibliography 297(4)
Chronology 301(14)
Discography 315(2)
The Dead on the Net 317(2)
Contributors 319(4)
Permissions 323(4)
Index 327

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