Dead Reckonings : The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead

by Rocco, John; Rocco, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780028648965
• ISBN10: 002864896X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

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