Grateful Dead Sources

THE NEWS REACHES SAN FRANCISCO (excerpt) The night Janis Joplin died, the three remaining bands from the first days of the San Francisco ...

I am a lover of the Grateful Dead. Since that first night in 1967 when they did for me what acid was to do some time later, I have considere...

RIFFS: NO FAVORS I awoke this morning to a startling realization. Today does not exist. Well, maybe it does...but only by the good graces ...

ALBUMIN A good album, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts t...

THE FLOURISHING UNDERGROUND SAN FRANCISCO - Forget the cable cars; skip Chinatown and the Golden Gate; don't bother about the topless ...

BIG WEEKEND FOR THE BLUES (excerpt) . . . At the Fillmore Auditorium, Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton, who is of the great line of women blue...

JERRY GARCIA An exclusive interview with Jerry Garcia, lead and pedal steel guitarist with the Grateful Dead. We drove up to the house i...

LIVELY 8,500 VISIT GRATEFUL DEAD EDWARDSVILLE - The Grateful Dead, a California-based "Acid-Rock" group, drew a crowd of 8,500 y...

DEAD ON ARRIVAL THE GRATEFUL DEAD FLY INTO BRITAIN In Britain at any rate, the Grateful Dead almost became the victims of their own legen...

THE GRATEFUL DEAD: HOLLYWOOD FESTIVAL DISGRACING THE GRATEFUL DEAD You will have read the newspaper reports purporting to describe last w...