Back issues of the following publications were consulted: BAM, The Golden Road, Marin Independent Journal, Pacific Sun, Palo Alto Daily News, Palo Alto Times, Palo Alto Weekly, Peninsula Times Tribune, People, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, and the Washington Post. In particular, Blair Jackson’s and David Gans’s work at BAM, Joel Selvin’s and Ralph J. Gleason’s at the Chronicle, and Paul Liberatore’s at the Marin Independent Journal were invaluable.
A huge nod to the Grateful Dead Archive and associated collections and research material, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California at Santa Cruz. Special thanks to Nicholas Meriwether. Thanks to Dennis McNally for permission to reference his taped interviews with Frankie Weir and Jon McIntire.
Portions of Chapters 10 and 17 appeared, in different form, in Rolling Stone.
Among the many websites I clicked on and continually pored over were the Dead’s own, Dead.net, along with Corry Arnold’s aforementioned Lost Live Dead and its sibling site, http://hooterollin.blogspot.com; Jerry Garcia’s Middle Finger (http://jgmf.blogspot.com); Dead Essays (http://deadessays.blogspot.com); and the Modern Deadhead (http://moderndeadhead.blogspot.com). Blair Jackson’s late, lamented, but still invaluable Blair’s Golden Road blog never fails to enlighten. The JFK Library site, JFKlibrary.org, was a treasure trove of Cuban Missile Crisis documentation.
As any Dead scholar will tell you, the number of books, articles, and blogs devoted to the band could practically fill a library. It’s nearly impossible to cite every book and newspaper or magazine piece about the band, but below is a sampling of ones that were especially useful for this book.
ARTICLES
Brown, Toni. “An Interview with Vince Welnick.” Relix, June 1991.
Browne, David. “Rolling with the Dead.” Rolling Stone, March 31, 2009.
———. “Still Truckin’.” Rolling Stone, November 13, 2008.
———. “The Dead Recall the Colorful Life of LSD Pioneer Owsley Stanley.” Rolling Stone, March 30, 2011.
———. “The Dead’s Greatest Year.” Rolling Stone, June 26, 2013.
———. “Donna Godchaux’s Long, Strange Trip.” Rolling Stone, March 4, 2014.
“California: End of the Dance.” Time, August 18, 1967.
DeCurtis, Anthony. “The Music Never Stops: The Rolling Stone Interview with Jerry Garcia.” Rolling Stone, September 2, 1993.
Eisen, Benjy. “Grateful Dead Drummer: Jerry Garcia ‘Wasn’t Really Happy Playing’ at Band’s End.” Rolling Stone, January 17, 2012.
Emerson, Paul. “Medics Add Folk Singing to Menu.” Palo Alto Times, January 22, 1963.
“Fan of Rock Concert Killed by the Police, Coroner Rules.” New York Times, December 30, 1989.
Foege, Alec. “Funeral for a Friend.” Rolling Stone, September 21, 1995.
Fong-Torres, Benjamin. “15 Years Dead.” Rolling Stone, August 7, 1980.
Fricke, David. “The Dead’s Working Man.” Rolling Stone, April 21, 2014.
Gans, David, and Blair Jackson. “Talking with Garcia.” Record, June 1982.
Gilmore, Mikal. “The New Dawn of the Grateful Dead.” Rolling Stone, June 16, 1987.
Goodman, Fred. “Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview.” Rolling Stone, November 30, 1989.
Graham, Gerrit. “The Crime and Its Victims.” Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics (2004).
“Grateful Dead Ungrateful; Sued.” Rolling Stone, July 26, 1969.
Greenfield, Robert. “Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD.” Rolling Stone, July 12, 2007.
Gupte, Pranay. “Panel Suggests ‘Rescue’ Plans for Radio City.” New York Times, January 9, 1978.
Henke, James. “Alive & Well: The Rolling Stone Interview with Jerry Garcia.” Rolling Stone, October 31, 1991.
Himes, Geoffrey. “Grateful Dead, Alive as Ever.” Washington Post, November 1, 1989.
Hinckley, David. “This One Is for Deadheads.” New York Daily News, October 16, 1984.
Hopkins, Jerry. “The Grateful Dead Hit Europe.” Rolling Stone, June 22, 1972.
Isikoff, Michael. “Interest in Dead Was Not Musical.” Washington Post, August 14, 1990.
Jackson, Harry. “On Tour with the Dead.” Zygote, July 22, 1970.
James, George. “Possible Drug Link to Rock Fan’s Death Cited by Prosecutor.” New York Times, November 18, 1989.
Lydon, Michael. “The Dead Zone.” Rolling Stone, August 23, 1969.
“New Orleans Cops and the Dead Bust.” Rolling Stone, March 7, 1970.
Ong, Mark Stuart, and John Walker. “The Roy Kepler Story.” Kepler’s Review, December 1991.
Pareles, Jon. “The Dead’s Gamble: Free Music for Sale.” New York Times, December 3, 2005.
Pavlis, Timothy. “Tangent Turns to Ethnicism.” Stanford Daily, January 23, 1963.
Perry, Charles. “A New Life for the Dead.” Rolling Stone, November 22, 1973.
———. “The Deadhead Phenomenon.” Rolling Stone, Winter 1980.
Peters, Steve. “Built to Last: A Conversation with Jerry Garcia.” Relix, December 1989.
“Pop Records: Moguls, Money & Monsters.” Time, February 12, 1973.
Shepard, Richard F. “Radio City Music Hall Returns.” New York Times, June 1, 1979.
Sidon, Rob. “Bob Weir, Gratefully.” Common Ground, November 2014.
“St. Michael’s Alley Has Matured, But Stays True to Its Bohemian Spirit.” Palo Alto Times Tribune, November 24, 1991.
Watrous, Peter. “The Grateful Dead’s Continuing Metamorphosis.” New York Times, September 12, 1991.
Weitzman, Steve. “A Chat with Jerry Garcia.” Rolling Stone, April 1, 1976.
Young, Charles M. “The Awakening of the Dead.” Rolling Stone, June 16, 1977.
BOOKS
Allen, Scott W. Aces Back to Back. Outskirts, 2014.
Brandelius, Jerilyn Lee. Grateful Dead Family Album. Warner, 1990.
Brightman, Carol. Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure. Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Brown, Toni, with Lee Abraham and Ed Munson, eds. Relix: The Book—The Grateful Dead Experience. Backbeat, 2009.
Conners, Peter. Growing Up Dead. Da Capo, 2009.
Cutler, Sam. You Can’t Always Get What You Want. ECW Press, 2010.
Davis, Tom. 39 Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. Grove, 2010.
Dodd, David, annotations by. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. Free Press, 2005.
Dodd, David G., and Diana Spaulding, eds. The Grateful Dead Reader. Oxford, 2000.
Editors of Rolling Stone. Garcia. Little, Brown, 1995.
Gans, David, and Peter Simon. Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead. St. Martin’s, 1985.
Gans, David. Conversations with the Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book. Da Capo, 1999.
Garcia, Jerry, Jann S. Wenner, Charles Reich. Garcia: A Signpost to New Space. Da Capo reprint, 2003.
Graham, Bill, and Robert Greenfield. Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out. Doubleday, 1992.
Greenfield, Robert. Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia. William Morrow, 1996.
Harrison, Hank. The Dead Book. Links, 1973.
Hunter, Robert. A Box of Rain. Penguin, 1993.
Jackson, Blair. Grateful Dead Gear: The Band’s Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions, From 1965 to 1995. Backbeat, 2006.
———. Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped. Putnam, 1983.
———. Goin’ Down The Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion. Three Rivers, 1992.
———. Garcia: An American Life. Viking, 1999.
Lesh, Phil. Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead. Little, Brown, 2005.
Loren, Richard, with Stephen Abney. High Notes: A Rock Memoir. East Pond, 2014.
Lydon, Michael. Rock Folk: Portraits from the Rock ‘n’ Roll Pantheon. Citadel reprint, 1990.
McGee, Rosie. Dancing with the Dead: A Photographic Memoir. Tioli Press & Bytes, 2013.
McNally, Dennis. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. Broadway, 2002.
Parish, Steve, with Joe Layton. Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead. St. Martin’s, 2003.
Scott, David Meerman, and Brian Halligan. Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Scully, Rock, with David Dalton. Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Little, Brown, 1995.
Shenk, David, and Steve Silberman. Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads. Doubleday, 1994.
Stanley, Rhoney Gissen, with Tom Davis. Owsley and Me: My LSD Family. Monkfish, 2013.
Trager, Oliver. The American Book of the Dead. Touchstone, 1997.
Various. Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip. DK Publishing, 2003.
Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.