tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post7648718820380319654..comments2024-03-26T23:10:34.814-07:00Comments on Grateful Dead Sources: May 1973: State of the DeadLight Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5195590583641426943.post-14770623932200379162012-10-01T00:19:06.540-07:002012-10-01T00:19:06.540-07:00This was also included in Dodd/Spaulding's Gra...This was also included in Dodd/Spaulding's Grateful Dead Reader, along with the charming illustrations, and a followup collage of reader replies printed in the next newsletter.<br /><br />This was written by Alan Trist, head of Ice Nine Publishing Co. Like many in the Dead scene, he went way back - he'd been friends with Garcia & Hunter in Palo Alto, and was even in the car crash with Garcia in '61.<br />Willy Legate wrote the "St Dilbert" quote. (Another member of the old Palo Alto group, he also wrote the Europe '72 liner notes.)<br /><br />I will not attempt to explain the newsletters' obsession with hypnocracy & St Dilbert, except that it seems to be a direct link between the Dead scene of the early '70s and the Palo Alto scene a decade earlier. <br />Robert Hunter doodled "some pretty basic tenets of Hypnocracy" for one newsletter: <br />"When asked the meaning of life, St. Dilbert is said to have replied, 'Ask rather the meaning of hypnocracy.' When asked the meaning of hypnocracy, St. Dilbert replied, 'Is not hypnocracy no other than the quest to discover the meaning of hypnocracy? Say, have you heard the one about the yellow dog yet?'" <br />And so on...Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.com