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A
A.B. Skhy (musical group), 31
Abbeville, South Carolina, 70
Abbott, Keith, 129–130
Abel (biblical character), 147, 197
“Abilene” (Brown, Gibson), 145
Abilene, Kansas, 145
Abilene, Texas, 145
Abraham (biblical character), 240–241
Academy of Music (New York), 190, 191
Aces Back to Bach A Guide to the Grateful Dead (Allen), 181
Acord, Art, 251
Adagia in Latine and English (Robinson), 387
Adams, Sarah, 286
“The Adventure of Black Peter” (Doyle), 100
Aelfthryth, Lady of Flanders, 77
Aeneid (Virgil), 265
Aeschylus, 138
African National Congress, 405
After the Fall (Miller), 196
Agamemnon (mythological character), 76
Ahab (fictional character), 59
Ahab (biblical character), 229, 392
“Ahab the Arab” (Stevens), 229
“Ain’t That a Shame” (Domino), 363
“Alabama” (Young), 304
Alameda County, California, 234
Alaska, 55
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, 176
Albritton, G. G., 273
Alcatraz (San Francisco), 392
Alcoholics Anonymous, 150
Alexander, Cecil Frances, 214, 355
Alexander, Jack, 177–178
Alexander, Texas, 39
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” (Berlin) 177–178, 180
Alfred the Great, King of England, 77
Algren, Nelson, 196
Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), 92, 116–117
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 3–5, 90, 416
Alice’s Adventures Underground, 5
“All Go Hungry Hash House” (traditional), 104
All Good Things, 121, 153, 159
“All Graceful Instruments” (Sandoz), 34
“All in Green Went My Love Riding” (Cummings), 247
“All My Trials, Lord” (traditional), 348
“All Things Bright and Beautiful” (Alexander), 214, 355–356
Allen, Scott, 181
Alleys of the Heart (Petersen), xxii, 234, 426
Allman, Duane, 38
Allman, Gregg, 96
Alpine Valley Music Theater (East Troy, Wisconsin), 339, 340, 343, 345
Alstyne, Egbert van, 299
Altamont Speedway (California), 108, 109–110, 226, 319
Althea (mythological character), 294–296
Althea (poetic pseudonym), 293–294
“Amagamalin Street” (Hunter), 269
Ambrose, 44
“America the Beautiful” (Ward/Bates), 168
American Graffiti, 181
American Museum (New York), 210
“The Anaheim Azuza and Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review and Timing Association” (Jan & Dean), 233
Andersen, Eric, 211
Andersen, Hans Christian, xiv, 77
Angle, Paul M., 84
Animal Crackers, 198
The Annotated Alice (Gardner), 4–5
The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics (Dodd), xxx, 56
The Annotated Mother Goose, 37, 76, 80, 180
“The Answer Man” (radio show), 64
Antheil, George, 107
Anthem to Beauty, 133–134
Anthony, Mike, 182
Anti-Saloon League, 152
Antrobus (Cheshire County, England), 23
Aphrodite (goddess), 267–268
Apocalypse Now, 358
Appalachian Mountains
buck dancing of, 102–103
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 212–213, 415
The Arabian Nights, 75, 92–93, 241, 338
Arista Records, 301
Arkus-Duntov, Zora, 309
Arlen, Harold, 347
Armies of the Night (Mailer), 354
Arnold, Dick, 104
Arnold, Kokomo, 364
Arnold, Matthew, 354–355
Arroyo Grande, California, 424
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) (Ovid), 182
Artemis (goddess), 34
Ash Grove (Los Angeles), 32
Ashley, Clarence, 120
Ashley, William, 177
Astaire, Fred, 305
“Astral Weeks” (Morrison), 245
“Astrophel and Stella” (Sidney), 196, 294
Athena (goddess), 297
Atlas (god), 76
Attar, Farid ud-Din (poet), 43
Aubrey, John, 190
Auditorium Theater (Chicago), 163, 164
August West (Wharf Rat) (artwork), 152
August, William, 98
Augustine, 236
“Auld Lang Syne”, xv
Austria, 64
Autry, Gene, 230
Avalon Ballroom (San Francisco)
performances at, 17, 18, 21, 34
Azarian, Tom, 76–77
B
“Baba O’Reilly” (Townshend), 403
Babbs, Ken (Merry Prankster), 45
Babylon, 122
Bach, P. D Q., 180
“Back Door Man” (Howlin Wolf/Dixon), 373
Backbone (musical group), 389
Baez, Joan, 217
Bahamas, 60
Bailey, Temple, 342–343
Baja California State, 170
Baker, Josephine, 242
Baker, Pearly (song character), 150
Baker, Purley, 152
Baker, Thomas, 170
Bakersfield, California, 170
Bakongo religion, 79
Baldwin, Count of Flanders, 77
Baldwin, James, 158
“Ballad of Casey Jones” (Seibert/Newton), 87–88
“Ballin the Jack” (Smith/Burris), 95–96
“Banbury Cross,” 229
The Band (musical group), 253
Barcelona, Spain, 166
Barchilon, Jose, 223
about, 424
“Cassidy” essay by, 224–228
fathers death, 227–228
Hunter viewed by, 420–421
“Looks Like Rain” comments by, 421–422
lyric authorship viewed by, 418–423
as lyricist, xxii, xxiii, xxv, 32, 37, 186, 190, 213, 214, 352–353, 355
Barnes, F.J., 229
Barnett, Dan, xii
Barnum & Bailey Circus, 220, 338
Barnum, PT, 219–220
Barri, Steve, 25
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, 46
Barry, Jeff, 364
Barrymore, Drew, 343
The Basement Tapes, 120
Bass, Charles E., 137–138
Bates, Katherine Lee, 168
Baton Rouge International Speedway (Louisiana), 96
Baum, Joseph, 143–144
Beach Boys (musical group), 364
Bear see Owsley
Beastie Boys (musical group), xxx
The Beatles (musical group), xxiii, 5, 29, 46, 157 see also individual album and song titles Bechet, Sidney, 70, 242
Beck, Jeff, 33
Beckett, Samuel, 101
Beckinsale, Kate, 122
“Been on the Cholly So Long,” 88
Behan, Brendan, 197
Beijing, China, 92
Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky, 69
“The Bells of London Town,” 180
Belushi, John, 311
Belvedere Island, California, 62
Ben Hur, 251
Benson, Mr. (slang fictional character), 115
Berio, Luciano, xii
Berlin, Irving, 81, 124, 177–178
Bernhardt, Sarah, 196
Berrigan, Bunny, 70
Berry, Chuck, 124, 179, 290, 363, 364
Bertha (office fan), 141
Bester, Alfred, 249
“Betty and Dupree” (traditional), 70–73
“Big Boss Man” (Smith, Dixon), 365
Big Brother and the Holding Company (musical group), 363
“Big Iron” (Robbins), 144
“Big Railroad Blues” (Cannons Jug Stompers), 21
Big Three Trio (musical group), 373
Bigfoot, Texas, 162
“Billy Grimes the Rover” (traditional), 104
Binford, T. A., 115
Binion, Benny “Deadman,” 147
Bion (poet), 267
Birch, Harry, 361
“Bird in a Cage” (traditional), 48
“Bitter Olives” (Petersen), 234
Black Madonna, 34
Black Peter, 100
Black Peter (film), 100
“Blackbird” (Lennon, McCartney), 363
Blackmore, Richie, 203
“Blackwaterside” (traditional), 48
Blake, “Blind,” 194
Blake, Eubie, 184
Blake, William, 267–268, 341–342
Blakesburg, Jay, 173
Bland, Bobby “Blue,” 40
Bland, Len, 124
“Blest Be the Tie That Binds” (Fawcett), 191
Bloom, Rube, 131
Bloomington, Minnesota, 337
“Blow Away the Morning Dew” (Child #112), 245
Blue River, 211
Blue Sky Boys (musical group), 368
“Blue Suede Shoes” (Perkins), 215, 218
“Blue Yodel No. 9.” See “Standin’ on the Corner”
“Blueberry Hill” (Lewis, Stock, Rose), 230
“Blues for Alice” (Parker), 241
Blues for Mr. Charlie (Baldwin), 158
“Bo’ Hog Blues” (Alexander), 39
Boars Head Coffee House, Jewish Community Center (San Carlos, California), 104
Bob & Jerry (musical group), xxii
Bob Dylan and the Band (musical group), 120
Bojangles. See Robinson, Bill
“Bojangles of Harlem” (Kern, Fields), 305
“The Bold Lieutenant” (traditional), 261–262
Bolinas, California, 129
“Boneyard Shuffle” (Carmichael, Mills), 184
Bonneau, Annie (song character), 152
“The Bonnie Lass of Fenario” (traditional), 82
“The Bonnie Lass of Fyvie-O” (traditional), 82, 217
“Boogie Stop Shuffle” (Mingus), 184
Borrow, Joe Louis, 352
Boston, Massachusetts, 346
Botkin, B. A., 86, 87, 285–286
Bourbon Street (New Orleans, Louisiana), 132
Bousquet, Patrick, 285
A Box of Rain
lyric variations in, 362
notes from, 38, 52, 57, 67, 108, 110, 123, 130, 139, 142, 144, 153, 166, 196, 205, 269, 292, 310, 313, 370
publishing, 425
Bralove, Bob, 416
Brautigan, Richard, xxiii, 129–130
Brazos River (Texas), 22
Breughel, Pieter, 201
Brie, F. W., 169
Britain. See England
Brokedown Palace (Brust), 122
Brokedown Palace (film), 122
Bronson, Bertrand, 76
Brooks, Shelton, 385
Brown, Cecil, 281
Brown, Francine, 105
Brown, James, xxiii
Brown, Joseph Emerson, 13
Brown, Lester, 145
Brust, Steven, 122
“Bruton Town” (traditional), 108
Bryan, Vincent P., 48
Buck Dancer’s Choice (Dickey), 103
“Buck Dancer’s Choice” (traditional), 103, 194
Buck, Gene, 124
Buckingham, Lindsey, 203
Bulgarian Women’s Choir (musical group), 105
Bunyan, Paul, 218
Burke, Edmund, 339
Burke, James Lee, 115
Burke, Joe, 179
Burlington Northern Railroad, 168
Burman, Maurice, 184
Burnett, Francis Hodgson, 69
Burns, Robert, 58
Burris, Jim, 95
Burton, Richard Francis, 74–75, 338
Butte County, California, 113
“By the Waters of Babylon” (traditional), 242
“Bye and Bye” (traditional), 48
Byron, Lord George Gordon, 5, 182
C
“C. C. Rider” (traditional), 96
Cabell, James Branch, 352
Cable, George Washington, 156
Cadillac, Bobby, 22
Caesar, Irving, 231
Cain (biblical character), 147, 198
Cal Expo Amphitheater (Sacramento, California), 385, 386
Calcutta, India, 67
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 196
Calexico, California, 170
Calgary, Alberta, 387
California. See specific place names and venues in California
California Hall (San Francisco), 85
“California, Here I Come” (Jolson, DeSylva, Myers), 270
“Call Me” (Hatch), 124
“Call Me (Come Back Home)” (Green, Jackson Jr.), 124
“Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon” (Berlin), 124
Calloway, Cab, xv
Calydon (mythological place), 294–296
Cambridgeshire, England, 83
Camden, William, 200
Camlann, Battle of, 354–355
“Camptown Races” (Foster), 131
Candide (Voltaire), 352
Candlestick Park (San Francisco), 366
“Candy Man Blues” (Mississippi John Hurt), 114
Cannon Ball Express, 87
Cannon, Gus, 21
“Cannonball Blues” (traditional), 104
Cannons Jug Stompers, 21
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 257
Capital Center (Landover, Maryland), 315, 362
Capitol Theater (New Jersey), 306, 307
Capitol Theater (New York), 119, 141, 144, 146, 147, 149, 152, 153, 155
The Captain and Tenille (musical group), xxiii
“Careless Love” (Handy, Williams, Koenig), 377
Carlyle, Thomas, 100–101
Carmichael, Hoagy, 184
“The Carnival Parade” (Lecuona), 361
Carousel Ballroom (San Francisco), 38, 48, 57, 59, 65
“The Carrion Crow” (Sharp #222), 76
Carter, A. P, 166
Carter, Michelle, 137
Carus, Emma, 177
Cash, Johnny, 182
“The Cask of Amontillado” (Poe), 107
Cassady, Neal, 44, 46, 224–226, 228, 338–339
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 169–170
Catherine the Great (Russia), 324
Cat’s Cradle (Vonnegut), 247
Cats Under the Stars, 362
Cavanaugh, Ellen, 106
Cayce, Kentucky, 86
“C’est la Vie (You Can Never Tell)” (Berry), 290
Chan, Charlie (fictional character), 220
Chandrasckhar, Subrahmanyan, 50
Chancy, Lon, Jr., 181
Chapala, Lake (Mexico), 57
Chapel of Love (Dixie Cups), 277
Chaplin, Charlie, 102
Charles, Andrew, 386
Charleston, South Carolina, 104, 179
Charlie (slang fictional character), 115, 157–158
Charlotte Coliseum (North Carolina), 217
Chateau Marmont (Los Angeles), 311
Chatman, Bo, 368
“Chattanoogie,” Tennessee, 165–166
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 109, 169, 257
Chelsea Hotel (New York), 196–197
Cherokee, (various towns), 113
Cherokee Nation, 113
Cherry Creek, Arizona, 113
Cheshire County, England, 4, 23
Chess Records, 373
Chicago, Illinois, 40, 168, 373, 426. See also specific venues in Chicago, Illinois
Childhoods End (Clarke), 388
“Children, Go Where I Send Thee” (traditional), 59
China, 55, 56, 74, 92, 139, 143
China Camp, California, xix, 159
“China Doll” (Hornsby), 201
Chino, California, 112–113
Chino Valley (Arizona), 113
Chisholm Trail (Texas), 145
Christian, Charlie, 114
Cincinnati, Ohio, 115
Circus (musical group), 400
Cirlot, J. E., 42, 85, 128, 200, 266, 365
Civic Auditorium (San Francisco), 327
Civic Center (Providence, Rhode Island), 305
Clarke, Shirley, 197
Classic Albums: American Beauty, 140
“Clementine” (traditional), 53–54
“Clinch Mountain Home” (Carter), 166
The Cloud of Unknowing (St. Denis), 116
Clover (musical group), 400
Clytemnestra (mythological character), 76
Cocktail (film), 364
Cohan, George M., 107
Cold Mountain (poet). See Han-Shan (poet)
Colden Auditorium (New York), 136
Cole, Natalie, 179
Coleman, Ornette, 38
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 90–92, 128, 150
Collins, Judy, 30–31
performances in, 235, 280, 287, 288, 289, 290, 301, 395, 410
Coltrane, John, xxii
Columbia, Maryland, 405
Columbia University (New York City, New York), 426
“Come all ye” tunes, xix, 106, 114
Community War Memorial (Rochester, New York), 323
Compton Terrace Amphitheater (Tempe, Arizona), 319
Congo, Democratic Republic of, 74
Congregationalist, 168
Conn, Billy, 352
Connecticut. See specific venues in Connecticut
Conrad, Joseph, 358
“Coo Coo Bird” (Ashley/traditional), 120
Cook, (Curly) Jim, 31
Cook, Shelley, 105
Cooke, Sam, 408
“Cool Drink of Water Blues” (Johnson), 143
“Cool Water” (Robbins), 144
Coon Creek Girls (musical group), 139
Coots, J. Fred, 81
Copenhagen, Denmark, 193
Coppola, Francis Ford, 358
Cora, Wyoming, 186, 190, 228, 232, 249, 272, 317, 319, 324
Coral (record label), 65
Corinna (poetess), 368–369
“Corinna” (Swift), 369
“Corinna, Corrina” (traditional), 368
“Corrina’s Going A-Maying” (Herrick), 369
“Corrine, Corrina” (Chatma, Parish, Williams), 368
Cotten, Elizabeth, 159
Cotton Club, 66
Cotton, James, 40
“Courting the Muse” (lecture), 263
Cow Palace (Daly City, California), 228, 231
Cowley, John, 157–158
Crane, Hart, 196
Crawford, James “Sugar Boy,” 277
Crazy Fingers. See Hopkins, Claude
“Crazy Fingers” (Maddox), 242
Crazy Fingers: Claude Hopkins’ Life in Jazz (Hopkins), 242
Crazy Otto. See Maddox, Johnny; Schulz-Reichel, Fritz
“The Crazy Otto Medley” (Maddox), 180
Crazy Otto Piano, 181
Crazy Otto Plays Crazy Tunes, 242
“Creation” (traditional), 198
Creedence Clearwater Revival (musical group), 339
Creeley, Robert, 129–130
Cricket Pavilion (Phoenix, Arizona), 408
Croce, Jim, 125
“Cross-eyed Blues” (Humes), 48
Crow, Bill, 73
“Crow Black Chicken” (traditional), 104
“The Cruel Mother” (Sharp #10, version D), 64
Cruise, Tom, 364
Crumb, R., 66
Crumlish, Christian, 329
“Cry, Cry, Cry” (Bland), 40
Cucamonga, California, 233–234
“Cuckoo Song” (anon.), 35
Culture and Anarchy (Arnold), 355
Cumberland County Civic Center (Portland, Maine), 317, 329
“Cumberland Gap” (traditional), 98
Cumberland, references to, 97–99
Curtis, Loyal, 299
Cushing, William O., 200
D
Dade Coal Company, 13
Daly City, California, 228, 231
Dance steps and dances
African American, 101–102, 115, 156–157, 183–184
Apache, 385
Ballin the Jack, 95–96
Big Apple, 67
Bop, 384–385
Bow and Balance, 76
Brazilian, 384
Caribbean, 156
Contra, 76
Do Paso, 209–210
Irish Jig, 34
Jive, 115
Juba, 156–157
Ring, 80
Shake, 160–161
Shuffle, 183–184
Square Dance, 209–210
Strutting, 66
Swing, 384–385
Truckin, 66
Water, 103
Zudie-O, 66
Danes, Claire, 122
Danish Center (Los Angeles), 12, 13
Danko, Rick, 211
Danko/Fjeld/Andersen, 211
Dante Alighieri, xxxi
Dardanus (god), 76
“Dark Hollow” (traditional), 139, 365
Dark Side of the Moon, 268
Dark Star (film), 51
Dark Star (race horse), 51
“Dark Star” (Oldfield), 51
“Dark Star” (Stills), 51
“Darktown Strutters Ball” (Brooks), 385
David, King of Israel, xv
David Nelson Band, 24
Davis, Clive, 301
Davis, Gary, 255
Davis, Larry, 125
Davis, Miles, 296
Davis, Tom, 188
Dawson, John, 112
Daybreak, 129
De Kooning, Willem, 196
De Niro, Robert, 426
De Palma, Brian, 426
The Dead, 389
first performance by, 207, 235
“KC Moan” performed by, 363–364
lyric variances of, 25
Dean, James, 218
DeDanann (musical group), 125
Deer Creek Music Center (Noblesville, Indiana), 388
Delaney and Bonney (musical group), 253
Delilah (biblical character), 143, 254
DeLyon, Billy (song character), 281
DeLyon, Delia (song character), 281
DeMille, Cecil B., 270
Denmark, 193
Denny, Frederick Mathewson, 212, 213
Denny, Sandy, 124
Dern, Laura, 179
“Devilish Mary” (traditional), 104
Diana (goddess), 34
Dickey, James, 103
Dickinson, Emily, 105
“Didn’t You Hear” (traditional), 200
Dietz, Howard, 365
The Diggers, 197
Diggers, Earl Derr, 220
Dillinger, John, 89
Dillon Stadium (Connecticut), 199
“Dink’s Song” (traditional), 121
Dinosaurs (musical group), 425
Dippel, Konrad, 182
Disney, Walt, xv
Divine Comedy, xxxi
Dixie Cups (musical group), 277
Dixon, Luther, 365
Dixon, Mort, 89
Dixon, Willie James, 373
“Do Deny (Lying Man)” (Hunter), 324
Dobson, Bonnie, 32–33
Dr. Jive (deejay), 181
Dodd, David, xxvii, 56, 69, 236, 416, 422
“Doin’ the Duck Wucky” (Penner, Raynor), 80
“Doin’ the New Low Down” (McHugh/Fields), 80
“Doin’ the Raccoon” (Coots/Klages), 81
“Doin’ the Uptown Lowdown” (Revel/Gordon), 81
“Doin’ What Comes Naturally” (Berlin), 81
“Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down” (traditional), 155
“Don’t Tread on Me” (flag standard), 104
Doodah man, 131
Dorsetshire, England, 77
Douglas, Stephen A., 84
“Dover Beach” (Arnold), 354
“Down by the Riverside” (traditional), 104
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 100
Dracula (Stoker), 5
“Dreaming and Drifting” (Pyke/French), 299
“Drifting and Dreaming (Sweet Paradise) (A Hawaiian Love Song)” (van Alstyne, Schmidt, Curtis/Gillespie), 299
Duino Elegies, 425
Duke (record label), 40
Dundes, Alan, 158
Dupree, Frank, 70–71
Dupree, Reese, 73
“Duprees Blues” (Dupree), 73
Duprees Diamond News, 278
Duvall, Robert, 179
Dylan, Bob, xxiii, 34, 56, 196, 217, 270, 388, 419, 420. See also Bob Dylan and the Band
E
Eagle Mall Suite, 56, 75, 128, 256, 265, 305
“Easin’ In” (Cadillac), 22
East Palo Alto, California, xii
East Rutherford, New Jersey, 382
“East St. Louis Toodleloo” (Ellington), 199
East Troy, Wisconsin, 339, 340, 343, 345
Easy Rider, 227
“Easy Rider” (traditional), 363
Easy Street (film), 102
“Easy Street” (Jones), 102
Edda (Scandinavian epic), 179
“Edward” (Child #13), 167
Eisenhower, Dwight, 224
“El Paso” (Robbins), 144
El Salvador, 350
“Eldorado” (Poe), 75
Electra (mythological character), 76, 369
Electric Theater (Chicago), 93
Electronic Frontier Foundation, 424
Elektra Records, 33
Elgin, B., 125
Eliot, T. S., xxvii, 51, 196, 213, 268, 420
Ellen, R., 124
Emergency Crew (musical group), 46. See also Grateful Dead
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 355
“The Empty Cup” (Yeats), 173
Endgame (Beckett), 101
England, 29, 33. See also specific place names in England
Alfred the Greats reign of, 77
Great Revolt in, 169
Hunters first visit to, 121
marshes in, 83
religious music of, 60
rosemary rites in, 68
English Proverbs (Ray), 192
“An Enigma” (Poe), 189
Ephesus, Greece, 34
Epipolae, Battle of, 354
Epistulae ad Lucilium (Seneca), 100
Esau (biblical character), 319, 337
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke), 267
“An Essay on Criticism” (Pope), 339
Essays (Emerson), 355
Essex, England, 169
Ethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, 77
Ethelgifu (nun), 77
Ethelred, Count of the Mercians, 77
Eureka, California, 54
Eurydice (mythological character), 362
Evans, David, 136
The Evergreen Review, 74
“Everybody’s Doing It Now” (Berlin), 81
Ewen, David, 384
Ewing, James S., 84
Excelsior District (San Francisco), 259
“Eyes of the World” (various), 203
Ezekiel (prophet), 258, 271–272
F
“Fable of a Chosen One” (David Nelson Band), 24
“Faces in the Fire” (Carroll), 265
“Fair to Even Odds” (Hunter), 210
Fairy Sybil, 77
Falls of Princes (Lydgate), 257
“The False Knight upon the Road” (Sharp #2), 63
“False True Love” (traditional), 48
“False Young Man” (traditional), 48
The Family Dog at the Great Highway (San Francisco), 95, 113
Far Away Radios (Petersen), 426
“Fare Thee Well Marianne” (traditional), 122–123
Farina, Johann Maria, 69
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 227
Fawcett, John, 191
“F.D.R.’s Back Again” (traditional), 115
“Feelin’ Groovy.” See “59th Street Bridge Song”
Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien), 118
de Feminis, Paul, 69
Fennario (mythological place), xx, 77, 82–84, 217
“Fennario” (traditional), 82
Fenris (mythological beast), 85
Ferrer, Jose, 223
Festival Express, 253
Festival Express Tour, 211, 253
Fiddlers Green (fictional place), 410
Field House (Cincinnati), 115
“59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” (Simon), 48
Fillmore Auditorium (San Francisco)
performances at, 15, 22, 23, 40, 99, 108, 110
Fillmore East (New York), 70, 89, 94, 135
Fillmore West (San Francisco), 38, 101, 105, 120, 123, 125, 129, 133
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 388
“Fire and Ice” (Frost), 104
“Fire on the Mountain” (traditional), 273
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 196
Five Breezes (musical group), 373
Fjeld, Jonas, 211
Fleetwood Mac (musical group), 203, 278
Fletcher, Tom, 305
Flying Circus (musical group). See Circus (musical group)
Fonda, Jane, 197
Ford, Lena Guilbert, 313
Ford Pavilion (Scranton, Pennsylvania), 396
Ford, Lena Guilbert, 313
Ford, Tennessee Ernie, 363
Fortuna (goddess), 257
Fortunado (fictional character), 107
Foster, Paul, 23
Foster, Stephen, xv, 109, 131, 331–332, 375
Foucault, Michel, 223
Fountain Valley High (Colorado Springs, Colorado), 424
Four Lads (musical group), 25
Four Quartets: Little Gidding (Eliot), 268
Fox, Matthew, 62
Foyle, Gulliver (fictional character), 249
Fragment (Aeschylus), 138
Franken, Al, 188
Frankenstein (castle of Germany), 182
Frankenstein (Shelly), 181–182
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, 181
Frankenstein, Victor (fictional character), 182
Freemasons. See Masons
French, Arthur W., 299
Fresno, California, 170
“Friendship” (Emerson), 355
Frost, Robert, 104
Fuld, James L., 177–178
Fuller, Jesse, 13–14
Funny Girl, 251
Furthur (Kesey’s bus), 45, 224–225
“Futuristic Shuffle” (Savitt), 184
Fyvie-O (imaginary place), 82, 84
G
Gaddy, Bob, 125
Gadsden, Christopher, 104
da Gama, Vasco, 67
Gamse, Albert, 361
Gans, David, interviews with, 44–45, 83–84, 317, 411–412
“A Gaping Wide-mouthed Waddling Frog” (traditional), 59
Garcia, Jerry
“Althea” comments by, 297
artwork by, 152
car accident memory of, 199
“Casey Jones” comments by, 89
as composer, 34, 52, 89, 105, 269
“Dark Star” comments by, 52
death of, 62, 101, 153, 192, 389, 411–412
“Dire Wolf” comments by, 84
“Friend of the Devil” comments by, 113
as lyricist, xxi, 5, 47, 84, 85, 105, 243, 360, 378
“Mindbender” comments by, 46
New Lost City Ramblers and, 106
on Reflections cover, 11
as singer, 69, 163, 169, 202, 219, 230, 286, 350, 366, 380
in Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers, 104
solo albums and side projects
Reflections, 11, 173, 208, 221, 253, 260
Garcia, 52, 121, 146, 147, 153, 155, 159, 161, 258
“That’s It for the Other One” comments by, 47
tribute to, 411–412
“Turn On Your Love Light” comments by, 39
“Uncle Johns Band” comments by, 34, 52, 89, 105
“Victim or the Crime” comments by, 336
Gates, David, 296
“Gates of Eden” (Dylan), 34
Gerde’s Folk City (New York), 33
Germany, 43, 49, 68, 69, 182, 188
Gershwin brothers, 384
Ghengis Khan, 92
Giants Stadium (East Rutherford, New Jersey), 382
The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale (Byron), 5
Gibson, Bob, 145
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers (musical group), 273
Gideon (Jewish tribal leader), 143
Giessen University (Germany), 182
Gillespie, Dizzy, 206
Gillespie, Haven, 299
Ginsberg, Allen, xvi, xxiii, 224
Gleason, Ralph J., 110
Glens Falls Civic Center (New York), 302
Glover, Roger, 203
Gluck, Joyce, 106
“God Bless the Child” (Herzog Jr./Holiday), 309
Godchaux, Brian, 248
Gogh, Vincent van, 267
Goldberg Variations, 415
Goldberry (fictional character), 118
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), 270
Golden Gate Park (San Francisco)
carousel in, 67
Love Pageant Rally in, 28
Polo Field concert at, 32, 120
Speedway Meadows in, 109
The Golden Road, 8, 9, 15, 18, 26
interview in, 56–57
Goll, King of Ireland, 126
“Gomorrah” (Garcia/Hunter), 362
“Good Golly, Miss Molly,” 37
“Goodnight Irene” (Ledbetter), 204
Gordon, Mack, 81
Gorey, Edward, 126–127
Graham, Billy, 177
Grahame, Kenneth, 230
“The Grass is Greener” (Mann, Anthony), 182
Grateful Dead. See also individual band members’ names
acid-rock born of, 29
encores by, 139
first top ten hit of, 315
free concerts by, 109
instrumentals, 413–417
lyric writing end of, 418
photo collection, 173
rehearsals, 174
songs never performed by, 248, 279, 292
splitting and regrouping of, 389
on tour, 133–134, 211, 253, 419
venues owned by, 38
Grateful Dead albums
American Beauty, 113, 115, 117, 120, 123, 125, 129, 133, 135, 139
Anthem of the Sun, 7, 38, 46, 48, 415
Aoxomoxoa, 57, 64, 67, 69, 70, 77, 80, 92, 93
Beyond Description, 248
The Birth of the Dead, 8, 18, 26
Blues for Allah, 243, 244, 247, 248, 249, 413–414, 415, 416
Built to Last, 335, 337, 339, 340, 343, 345, 347, 348, 351, 353, 356, 357, 358
Dead Set, 414
Emergency Crew demo, 46
Europe ‘72, 11, 134, 158, 163, 166, 169, 182, 193, 414
Go to Heaven, xxvi, 22, 297, 299, 301, 302, 305, 306, 307, 414
The Golden Road, 8, 9, 15, 18, 26, 56–57
Grateful Dead (1967), 10, 13, 17, 18, 20–21, 32, 35
Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses), 30, 65, 136, 141, 152
Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel, xxvi, 201, 206, 220, 223, 231, 235, 238, 426
In the Dark, xxvi, 311, 313, 315, 317, 324, 327, 332
Live/Dead, 40, 51, 59, 60, 414
Rare Cuts and Oddities, 1996, 12, 25
Shakedown Street, 21, 273, 280, 287, 288, 289, 290, 292, 414
So Many Roads, 5, 54, 108, 184, 345, 347, 365, 377, 378
Steppin’ Out with the Grateful Dead: England ‘72, 191
Terrapin Station, 254, 272, 275, 278, 279
Wake of the Flood, 197, 199, 204, 205, 210, 211, 212, 215
What a Long Strange Trip Its Been, 52
Workingman’s Dead, 85, 89, 94, 96, 99, 101, 105, 106, 110
Grateful Dead Records, 426
Great American Music Hall (San Francisco), 249, 415
Great Highway. See The Family Dog at the Great
Highway The Great Jug Bands, 21
Great Northern Railroad, 168
Great Revolt (England), 169 Greatest Story Ever Told (film), 142
Greatest Story Ever Told (Oursler), 142
Greek Theater (University of California, Berkeley), 324
Green, Al, 124
Green, Eddie, 21
“Green, Green” (McGuire, Sparks), 182
“Green Grow the Rushes, Hoi” (Burns), 58
Green, Percy, 180
Greenacre, Phyllis, 4
Greenaway, Kate, 80
Greenhill, Manny, 33
Greenwich, Ellie, 364
Greetings, 426
Gregory XIII (Pope), 246
Grogan, Emmett, 197
Groos, Arthur, 49
Grosvenor, Richard, 229
Grosvenor Square (London, England), 229
Groton School, 426
El Grotto (Chicago), 125
Gumbo, 277
Guthrie, Woody, 416
H
Hagar, Sammy, 207
Haight-Ashbury district (San Francisco), 28, 46
1/2 Set in Harlem, 125
Hall, Benjamin, 97
Hall, Roy, 378
Hamm (fictional character), 101
Hampstead Heath, England, 121
Hampton, Virginia, 139
The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (Incredible String Band), 60
Han-Shan (poet), 74
“Happy Birthday to You”, xv
Harbor Lights (Hornsby), 201
“Harlem Shuffle” (Relf, Nelson), 184
Harris, Charles K., 124
Harris, Joel Chandler, 266
Harrison, George, 348
Harrison, Hank, 416
Harrison, Michael, 176
Hart, Lenny, 192
Hart, Mickey, 13, 214, 292, 389, 425
“Down the Road” comments by, 411–412
Hunters comments about, 408
“Self-Defense” comments by, 405
solo albums and side projects of, 144, 148, 149 see also Mystery Box, Planet Drum
Rolling Thunder, xxv, 144, 148, 149
studio recordings by, 398
“Time Never Ends” comments by, 407
“Truckin” comments by, 134
Hartford, Connecticut, 199, 391, 392
Hassinger, Dave, xxiv
Hatch, Tony, 124
Havens, Richie, 425
Haywood, Eliza, 369
Hazelwood, Lee, 33
Heard, Sonny, 226
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 358
“Hellhound on My Trail” (Johnson), 18, 112
“Hello, Central” (Ellen), 124
“Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven” (Harris), 124
“Hello, Central, Give Me No-Man’s Land” (Schwartz/Lewis, Young), 124
“Hello, Frisco Hello” (Hirsch/Buck), 124
“Hello Goodbye” (Beatles), 198
“Hello, I Must Be Going” (Marx), 198
Helium, Lester, xii
Helms, Chet, 38
Hendrix, Jimi, 400
Henke, Jim, 52
Hennch, Walt, 180
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center (Oakland, California), 351, 353, 356
Henry, O., 196
“Here Comes the Sun” (Harrison), 348
Heron, Mike, 60
Her rick, Robert, 369
Herriman, George, 56
Herring, Jimmy, 408
Hertha (goddess), 38
Herwin Records, 22
Hesiod (poet), 265
Hiaasen, Carl, 140
The Highwaymen (musical group), 33
Hill, James J., 168
Hinduism, 350
Hines, Earl, 125
Hirsch, Louis A., 124
Hog Farmers, 67
“Hold the Woodpile Down” (traditional), 104
Hollister, Leo, 204
Holly, Buddy, 65
Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles), 197
Hollywood, California, 426
Holmdel, New Jersey, 400, 402, 407
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 120
Holzman, Jac, 33
“Hoochie Coochie Man” (Muddy Waters/Dixon), 373
“Hop High Ladies” (traditional), 104
Hopkins, Claude, 242
Horton, Johnny, 105
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 85
House of Blue Lights (Chicago), 125
“House of Blue Lights” (Slack, Raye), 125, 196
House of Frankenstein, 181
The House Without a Key (Diggers), 220
“How Long Must I Wait for You?” (Jordan), 234
Howell, Joshua “Peg Leg,” 13
Howlin’ Wolf (radio personality), 40, 143, 373
Hugin (raven of thought), 92
Humes, Helen, 48
Hunter, Robert
about, 424–425
“Althea” comments by, 297
“Attics of My Life” comments by, 116
Barlow’s comments on, 228, 420–421
“Bird Song” comments by, 153
“Black Muddy River” comments by, 332–333
“Box of Rain” comments by, 138, 139–140
“Candyman” comments by, 115
“Casey Jones” comments by, 89
“China Cat Sunflower” comments by, 56–57
“Crazy Fingers” comments by, 243
“Cumberland Blues” comments by, 97
“Dark Star” comments by, 52
dark v. light motifs of, 132, 173
“Days Between” composition by, 380–381
“Dire Wolf” comments by, 85
Festival Express Tour comments by, 253
“France” comments by, 292
“Friend of the Devil” comments by, 113
“Greatest Story Ever Told” comments by, 144
“Here Comes Sunshine” comments by, 205
“Infrared Roses” titling by, 416
“Keep Your Day Job” comments by, 310
“Liberty” comments by, 378
as lyricist, 37, 38, 54, 123, 132, 163, 174, 203, 240, 286, 311, 324, 332, 360, 405
marsh motif used by, 83
Mission District comments by, 259
“Mountains of the Moon” comments by, 77
muses viewed by, 263–265
Orpheus used by, 93
Phil and Friends opening by, 231
psalms used by, 128
“Ramble on Rose” comments by, 180, 182
“Reuben and Cerise” changes by, 362
rose symbolism viewed by, 44
“Row Jimmy” comments by, 209, 210
“Saint Stephen” comments by, 61
“Slipknot!” comments by, 416
solo albums by, xxv, 56, 75, 128, 256, 261, 269, 378
Tales of the Great Rum Runners, xxv
Tiger Rose, xxv
“Sugaree” comments by, 159
“Tennessee Jed” comments by, 166
“Terrapin Station” comments by, 265–266, 268–269
“To Lay Me Down” comments by, 121
“Touch of Grey” comments by, 311
“Truckin” comments by, 131, 133, 134
“Uncle John’s Band” comments by, 105, 106
“You Remind Me” comments by, 408
“Hurdy Gurdy Man” (Donovan), 201
Hurt, Mississippi John, 89, 114
Hussein, Zakhir, xii
I
“I Am a Pilgrim” (Travis), 129
I Am the Blues (Dixon), 373
“I Am the Walrus” (Beatles), 5, 157
“I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)” (Howlin Wolf), 143
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (Jagger/Richards), xv
I Ching (Book of Changes), 273
“I Just Want to Make Love to You” (Muddy Waters/Dixon), 373
“I Pity the Fool” (Bland), 40
“I Walk the Line” (Cash), 182
Ice Nine Publishing Company, xxviii, 247
logo, 247
“I’ll Fly Away” (traditional), 152
“I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” (Zevon), 347
Illinois Central Railroad, 86, 87
’I’m All Out and Down” (traditional), 84
In Concert, vol. 2 (Baez), 217
“In the Pines” (traditional), 13, 365
“In the Sweet Bye-and-Bye” (Tilzer/Bryan), 48
Incredible String Band (musical group), 60
India, 67
“Indianapolis 500,” 346
International Civil Aviation Organization, 314–315
Intrepid Trips, Inc., 45
Invisible Republic (Marcus), 120
Irvine Meadows Amphitheater (California), 358
Irving, Washington, 380
Islam, 240
“It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” (Dylan), 56
“I’ve Got a Secret (Shake Sugaree)” (Cotten), 159
“I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers” (Watson, Barnes), 229
“Ivory Wheels/Rosewood Track” (Hunter), 83, 269
J
“Jack and Jill, and Old Dame Dob,” 179–180
Jack Straw (fictional character), 169
Jack the Ripper, 176
“Jack-a-Roe (Jack the Sailor)”, 74
Jackson, Al, Jr., 124
Jackson, Blair, 35
Jackson, Charles, 197
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 424
Jackson, Rudy, xii
Jacob (biblical character), 332, 337
Jacobs, Lou, 338
James, William, 266–267
Jan & Dean (musical group), 233
Japan, 55
Jazz Giants (musical group), 242
Jefferson Airplane (musical group), 5, 38
Jehosophat, King of Judea, 392
“Jelly Roll Blues” (Morton), 70, 73
Jennings, Waylon, 400
Jericho, 178–179
Jerry Garcia Band (musical group), 260, 362
Jesus, 236
eye of a needle quote by, 239–240
film about life of, 142
first miracle performed by, 143
Mount of Olives sermon by, 148
Jethro Tull (musical group), xxx
Jewish traditions, 161
“Jock-o-Mo” (Crawford), 277
Johannesburg, South Africa, 405
“John Silver” (Hunter), 128, 305
Johns, Jasper, 196
Johnson, “Blind Willie,” 254
“The Johnson Boys” (traditional), 104
Johnson, James Weldon, 185–186
Johnson, Tommy, 143
Jolson, Al, 270
Jonah (biblical character), 59
Jones, Alan Rankin, 102
Jones, Bessie, 156
Jones, Delilah (song character), 162
Jones, Jack (song character), 162
Jones, John Luther “Casey,” 86
Jones, Mrs. John Luther, 86
Jones, R., 125
Joplin, Janis, 28, 153, 190, 253
Jordan, Louis, 234
Joshua (biblical character), 178–179
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” (traditional), 178
Journey (musical group), 400
The Judy Collins Concert, 31
Juno (goddess), 43
Jupiter (god), 43
K
Kahn, Alice, 324
Kali (goddess), 34
Kanzan (poet). See Han-Shan (poet)
Karan, Mark, 400
Kato, Banno, 185
Kazan, Elia, 151
“KC Moan” (traditional), 363–364
“Keep the Home Fires Burning” (Novello/Ford), 313
Keith and Donna, 248
Kelley, Alton, 365
Kelly, Walt, 352
Kennedy, John F., 410
Kentucky Colonels (musical group), 106
Kepler’s Books (Palo Alto, California), xxvii
Kern County, California, 170
Kesey, Ken, 29, 224–225, 226, 310
acid tests and, 204
bus bought by, 45
Dylan on tour and, 419
house sign of, 23
at Human Be-In, 28
“on the bus” explained by, 46
son’s death, 123
University of Virginia lecture by, 123
Kessler, John, 16
Keye, Francis Scott, 366
Kezar Stadium (San Francisco), 67
Khan, Ali Akbar, xii
King, B. B., 194
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 410–411
Kingfish (album), 251
Kingfish (musical group), xxv, 48, 251
Kirkwood, Missouri, 117
Klages, Raymond, 81
Klamath Falls, Oregon, 425
Kliptown (Johannesburg, South Africa), 405
Knight, Gladys, 125
Knossos, Greece, 43
Koenig, Martha, 377
Kogan, Alice, 106
“Kokomo” (Beach Boys/Melcher, Phillips), 364
Kokomo, Indiana, 364
Korner, Alexis, 124
Krazy Kat (comic strip), 56
Kreutzmann, Bill, xxvi, 364, 389
as composer, 42, 52, 256, 413, 414, 415–416
Krishna (god), 350
Kubla Khan, 90–92
Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream (Coleridge), 90–92, 128
Kurenberg (poet), 49
L
La Honda, California, 23
“Lady in Red” (Dixon, Wrubel), 89
“Lady of Carlisle” (Sharp #66), 261–262
“The Lady’s Fan” (traditional), 261–262
Lagin, Ned, xxv
Lakshmi (goddess), 44
Lambchop (musical group), 64
Lamott, Anne, 234
Landover, Maryland. See Capital Center
Larimer Street (Denver, Colorado), 224
Larkspur, California, 153
Lauderdale, Jim, 425
“Lay of the Ring” (Hunter), 75, 256, 265
Lazy Lightnin’(film), 251
Leary, Timothy, 225
Lecuona, Ernesto, 361
Ledbetter, Huddie “Leadbelly,” 115, 194
Lee, Brenda, 182
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Irving), 380
Leicester, Marshall, 104
Leigh, Vivian, 223
Lemieux, David, 414
Lennon, John, 363
Leonard, Andy, 426
Leonardo da Vinci, 56
Lesh, Jill, 386
Lesh, Phil. See also Phil and Friends
autobiography of, 7, 23–24, 34, 40, 119, 139–140, 236, 380
“Box of Rain” comments by, 139–140
chants for, 139
Charles’ collaboration with, 386
Chelsea Hotel concert comments by, 197
“Childhoods End” comments by, 388
“Clementine” original lyrics for, 54
“Days Between” comments by, 380
Deadhead chants for, 139
fathers death, 139–140
“Looks Like Rain” comments by, 190
as lyricist, 139–140
memories of, 45
“Mindbender” comments by, 46
“Passenger” comments by, 278
Petersen’s collaboration with, 425–426
“Picasso Moon” comments by, 357
touring memories of, 134
Lesser, Deborah, 106
“Let Me Shake the Hand That Shook the Hand of
Sullivan” (Williams/Rosenfeld), 219
“Let the Four Winds Blow” (Domino), 246
Lewis, Al, 230
Lewis, Huey, 400
Lewis, Noah, 21
Lewis, Sam M., 124
Lewis, Sarah Anna, 189
Liberia, 160
Liberty, 378
Library of Congress, 104
Life is a Dream (Calderon de la Barca), 196
Lincoln, Abraham, 84
Lincolnshire, England, 83
“The Lion’s Den” (traditional), 261–262
Lipman, Kennard, 203
Lipscomb, Mance, 39
“Little Birdie” (traditional), 104, 139
Little Girl Lost (Bailey), 342–343
Little Girl Lost (Barrymore), 343
“Little Girl Lost” (Blake), 341–342
“Little Jazz Bird” (Gershwin brothers), 384
Little Nemo in Slumberland (comic strip), 416
Livermore, California, 109
“Living on the Highway” (Russell), 181
Livingstone, David, 338
“Loch Lomond” (traditional), 365
Locke, John, 267
Loesser, Frank, 25
Loggins, Kenny, 113
Lomax, Bess, 156
Lomax, John, 87
“London Bridge,” 376
London, England
Big Ben of, 97
Great Revolt in, 169
Grosvenor Square of, 229
Jack the Ripper in, 176
nursery rhymes of, 180
The Lone Cat (Fuller), 13
“Lonesome Valley” (traditional), 129
Long Beach Arena (California), 308
Long, Huey “Kingfish” P., 220
Longchenpa, 203
“Look for the Silver Lining” (Kern/Wodehouse, de Sylva), 313
“Look Out Any Window” (Hornsby), 137
Los Angeles, California, 32, 51, 311, 422. See also specific venues in Los Angeles
Lost Get-Back Boogie (Burke), 115
Lotsawa (publisher), 203
Louisville, Kentucky, 69
Love Pageant Rally (San Francisco), 28
The Love Pageant Rally Issue, 28
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Eliot), 51, 196
Lovelace, Richard, 293–294
Lowrence, Charley, 158
Ludington, Max, 302
Lugosi, Bela, 181
Lulu, 33
Lynyrd Skynyrd (musical group), 304
M
Madness and Civilization (Foucault), 223
“The Madness of King Goll” (Yeats), 126
Madonna, xxvi
Madras, India, 67
Madrone Canyon, Nevada, 153
“Magic Bus” (The Who), 46
“Magical Mystery Tour” (Beatles), 46
Mahal, Taj, 103
“Maid Freed from the Gallows” (Sharp #28, version H), 180
Mailer, Norman, 354
“Mairzy Doats,” 37
Mail, 20
Malloy, Terry (fictional character), 151
“Mama Tried” (Haggard), 170
The Mamas and Papas (musical group), 31
“The Man of Constant Sorrow” (traditional), 47, 104
“The Man with the Blue Guitar” (Stevens), 194–195
Mandelaville (Johannesburg, South Africa), 405
Manhattan Transfer (musical group), 125
Mann, Barry, 182
Mann, Michael Norman, 99
Mansfield, Massachusetts. See Tweeter Center
Manson, Charles, 226
Marco Polo, 92
Marcus, Greil, 120
Marin County, California, 62, 174, 226–227, 253, 425
Marin County Veterans Auditorium (San Rafael, California), 326
Mariposa Folk Festival (Ontario, Canada), 33
Market Street (San Francisco), 357
Marre, Jeremy, 140
“The Marsh King’s Daughter” (Andersen), 77
“Marta (Rambling Rose of the Wildwood)” (Gilbert, Simons), 179
Martin guitars, 115
Martin, Vince, 33
Martinez, California, 340, 343, 347, 356
Marvin, Lee, 223
Marx, Groucho, 198
Maryland. See specific venues in Maryland
Mason, Lowell, 286
Mass in B Minor, 392
Masters, Edgar Lee, 197
“Materna” (Ward), 168
Matrix (San Francisco), 5, 8, 9, 30, 67, 121
Matter, E. Ann, 212
Matthew (prophet), 355
McCarthy, Joseph, 179
McCay, Winsor, 416
McGoohan, Patrick, 25
McGuire, Barry, 182
Mclntyre, James, 102
McKenna, Richard, 142
McKernan, Ron
Bland’s influence on, 40
Joplin’s relationship with, 190
last show by, 197
as singer, 196
McKnight, Tom, 123
McMahon, Regan, 35
McMichen, Clayton, 273
McNichols Sports Arena (Denver, Colorado), 301
McTell, “Blind Willie,” 194
“Me and My Uncle” (Collins), 31
Meadows (Hartford, Connecticut), 391, 392
The Meaning of Truth, 267
Meher Baba (guru), 403
Meier, Barbara, 380
Melcher, Terry, 364
Meleager (mythological character), 294–295
Melinda (namesake), 97
Memorial Coliseum (Portland, Oregon), 274
Memorial Coliseum (University of Alabama), 278
Memphis State, 136
“Memphis, Tennessee” (Berry), 124
Menglewood, Tennessee, 20
Menlo Park, California, 45, 204
Meramec Community College (St. Louis, Missouri), 117
Mercia province, Britain, 77
Meriwether, Nicolas, 329
Merriweather Post Pavilion (Columbia, Maryland), 405
Merry Pranksters, 225 See also Kesey, Ken; Babbs, Ken; Sandy
The Meters (musical group), 277
Metropolitan Sports Center (Bloomington,
Minnesota), 337
Mexicali, Mexico, 170
Mexico
Black Madonna of, 34
dire wolves in, 84
marijuana from, 235
steel guitar origin in, 196
XERF radio station in, 181
Miami Indian tribe, 364
Michel, John, 49–50
Michigan, 425
Mickey Hart’s Mystery Box. See Mystery Box Middletown, Connecticut, 170
“Midnight Rider” (Allman), 96
“Midnight Special” (Leadbelly), 115, 368 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 179, 245–246
Milan, Italy, 69
Miles (Davis), 296
Mill Valley, California, 232, 249, 272, 280, 299, 302, 307, 358
Miller, Arthur, 196
Miller, Glenn, 230
Mills, Irving, 184
Milton, John, 313
Mimir (raven of memory), 92
Mingle wood, 20–21
“Minglewood Blues” (Cannons Jug Stompers), 21
Mingus, Charles, 184
Minnesota. See specific venues in Minnesota
Mission District (San Francisco), 259, 357
Mission Dolores (San Francisco), 259
Mississippi River, 36, 108, 158, 160
Mr. Big (musical group), 400
“Mr. Bojangles” (Walker), 305
Mitchell, Albert, 64
“Moanin’ Lo” (Dietz, Rainger), 365
Moby-Dick, 59
“The Mocking Bird Song” (Sharp #234), 161
Monk, Thelonius, 102
Monkees (musical group), xxiii, 296
“Monk’s Tale,” 257
Monroe, Marilyn, 218
Montresor (fictional character), 107
“Moonshiner” (traditional), 162
Morrison, Colorado. See Red Rocks Amphitheater
Morte d’Arthur (Tennyson), 354
Morton, “Jelly Roll,” 70, 73, 209, 363
Morton, Jill L., 196
Moses (biblical character), 142, 144, 213, 236, 270–271
Mother Goose, xv
Mother Goose (Greenaway), 80
Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions (musical group), xxii–xxiii. See also Grateful Dead
“Mother Night” (Johnson), 185–186
Mother Night (Vonnegut), 185
Mother’s (San Francisco), 7
“Mountain Jam” (Allman), 38
Mountains of the Moon, 74, 338
Mouse, Stanley, 365
Mud Creek, Texas, 145
Muddy Waters (musical group), 373
Murphy’s Law, 327
Muskrat, place references to, 233
Muslims, 240
“My Generation” (The Who), 347
Mydland, Brent, xxvi
Barlow’s collaboration with, 424
death of, 306
as lyricist, 301
on tour, 364
“Victim or the Crime” comments by, 336
Myers, Joseph, 270
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Van Allsburg), 127
Mystery Box (musical group), 389
N
Nabokov, Vladimir, 195, 196–197
Das Narrenschiff [Ship of Fools] (Brant), 43, 222–223
Nash, John Henry, xxxi
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Uniondale, New York), 211, 215, 422
National Guard Armory (St. Louis, Missouri), 64, 174
Native American Cherokee Nation, 113
Native Americans
Alcatraz occupation by, 392
Mardi Gras chants of, 277
memorial ceremony, 275
Miami Tribe of, 364
turtle symbolism to, 266
Nazareth (musical group), 33
“Nearer, My God, To Thee” (Adams, Mason), 286–287
Nelson, Earl, 184
Nelson, Willy, 179
Nemo, Captain (fictional character), 334
Nevada, 111–112
Nevada County, California, 113
Never-ever land, 46
Neville, Art, 277
Neville Brothers (musical group), 277
New Christy Minstrels (musical group), 182
New Jersey. See specific venues in New Jersey
New Lost City Ramblers (musical group), 76, 106, 165
“New Minglewood Blues” (Lewis), 21
New Morning (Dylan), 270
New Orleans, Louisiana, 36, 133, 160, 391.
New Riders of the Purple Sage (musical group), 253
New York, xvi, 227, 400, 423, 424, 425, 426. See also specific place names and venues in New York
Newport Folk Festival (1964), 139
Nicasio Valley (Marin County, California), 226
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 129
Nile River (Africa), 74–75, 338
Nina Music, 33
No, No, Nanette, 231
“No Particular Place to Go” (Berry), 363, 364
Noblesville, Indiana, 388
Nonnes Preestes Tale (Chaucer), 169
Nordine, Ken, 125
Norse Bifrost, 44
North Carolina, 10
Northern Pacific Railroad, 168
Northrop Auditorium (University of Minnesota), 166, 169, 170, 173, 175, 182
“Not Fade Away” (Rolling Stones), 65
Nova Scotia, 97
Novato, California, 203
Novello, Ivor, 313
“Number Twelve Train” (traditional), 230
O
Oakland, California, 14, 351, 353, 356
Oakland Coliseum Arena (California), 120, 297, 299, 332, 335, 365, 366, 370, 371, 373, 377, 378, 380
Oaxaca, Mexico, 235
O’Berry, Cleo Wynn, 273
Obray Ramsey Sings Folksong from Three Laurels, 10
Odin (god), 92
Oeagrus (Greek king), 64
Oedipus (Sophocles), 172
Oeneus (mythological character), 294
“Oh, Boy!” (Holly, Petty), 65
“Oh, Susanna” (Foster), 109, 331–332
“Ohio” (Young), 317
O’Keefe Centre (Toronto, Canada), 33, 40
“Old Folks at Home” (Dixon), 375
Old Man with a Guitar (painting), 195
“Old Plank Road” (Uncle Dave Macon), 165
Oliver, King, 184
Olson, Bengt, 21
The Omni (Atlanta, Georgia), 415
On Other Days While Going Home (Carter), 137
“On the Sunny Side of the Street” (McHugh/Fields), 290
On the Waterfront, 151
The Once and Future King (White), 100
One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads (Troy), 174
Oooh So Good ‘n’ Blues, 103
“Operator” (various), 124–125
Ophelia (Shakespearean character), 69, 297
Opie, Iona, 37
Opie, Peter, 37
The Oracle, 28
Oregon County Fair Site (Veneta, Oregon), 310, 311
Orestes (mythological character), 76
Orisha, Bembe, 408
Orlando West (Johannesburg, South Africa), 405
Orpheus (mythological character), 64, 93, 264–265, 302, 362
Osborne Brothers (musical group), 332
Osborne, Joan, 390
Oscar Schmidt Company, 194
Osgood, Frances Sargent, 190
The Other Ones (musical group), 77, 389, 404. See also The Dead
Otto der Schrage, 180
Oursler, Fulton, 142
Overland Automotive Company, 119
Owsley (Augustus Owsley Stanley III), 29, 47, 192
P
Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum (Vancouver), 232
Pale Fire (Nabokov), 195
Pali, 55
Palladium (New York), 275
Palo Alto, California, xxvii, 153, 201, 315, 425
Pao-Chih (poet), 56
Paramount Theater (Portland), 251, 253, 254, 258, 260
Paris, France, 385
Parish, Mitchell, 368
Parish, Steve, 368
Parker, Charlie, 206
Parsons, Gram, 388
Pascal, Blaise, 203
Passaic River (New Jersey), 333
Patrick Gym (University of Vermont), 321
Patton, Kathleen, 62
Pearce, Helen, 182
“Peggy-O” (traditional), 82, 83, 217
Peloponnesian Wars (Arnold), 354
Penner, Joe, 80
Pennywhistlers (musical group), 105–106
Pensées (Pascal), 203
“II Penseroso” (Milton), 313
Perkins, Carl, 218
Pershing Hotel (Chicago), 125
Persia, 43
Peru, 84
Pessis, Andre, 400
Peter Monk. See Zimels, Peter Richard Peter Pan, Or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, 46
Peter, Paul and Mary (musical group), 255, 425
Petersen, Robert, xxi–xxii, xxiii, xxvii, 234–235, 236, 423
about, 425–426
Peterson, Merrill, 203
Petty, Norman, 65
Phaedrus (Socrates), 268
Pharr, Clyde, 265
Phil and Friends (music group), 389
“All that We Are” played by, 390
Hunters opening for, 231
studio recordings by, 392, 394
Philips, Sam, 40
Phillips, John, 364
as lyricist, 30–31
solo albums of, 30–31
Phoenix, Arizona. See Cricket Pavilion Picasso, Pablo, 194–195
Pierrot (French male clown), 361
Pigpen. See McKernan, Ron Pindar, Jenny, 60
Pinedale, Wyoming, 424
Pink Floyd (musical group), 268, 388
Pintadores (Calico), 67
“Pippen Hill,” 229
Pirouette (French female clown), 361
Pittsburgh Civic Arena (Pennsylvania), 347
Place, Jeff, 106
Planet Drum (musical group), 389
Plato (philosopher), 148
PNC Bank Arts Center (Holmdel, New Jersey), 400, 402, 407
Poe, Edgar Allan, 75, 107, 189–190
Pogo (comic strip), 352
The Pogues (musical group), xxx
Polo Field (San Francisco), 32, 120
Polonius (Shakespearean character), 297
“Poor Pitiful Me” (Zevon), 56
Pope, Alexander, 339
Pop-o-Pies (musical group), 132
Port Chester, New York. See Capitol Theater
Porter, Cole, 384
Porter, Katherine Anne, 223
Portland, Oregon. See specific venues in Portland, Oregon
Pound, Ezra, 420
Presley, Elvis, 218
“Pretty Peggy of Derby” (traditional), 82, 217
“Pretty Peggy-O” (Sharp #95), 82, 83, 217
“The Prickly Bush” (Child #95), 180
Pringle, Bob, xii
The Prisoner (television show), 25
“Promontory Rider” (Hunter), xxv
Providence, Rhode Island. See Civic Center
Prufrock, Alfred, 51
Psalms, 127–128, 242, 305, 353
Ptolemy, 74
Puckett, Riley, 273
“Purple Haze” (Hendrix), 400
Pushkin, Alexander, 85
Pyke, C. M., 299
Q
Queen of Diamonds, 146
“The Queen of Spades” (Pushkin), 85
Queens College (Queens, New York), 136
R
“Rabbit Chase” (traditional), 104
Rackstraw, John, 169
Radio City Music Hall (New York), halloween at, 188
Ragtime Texas. See Thomas, Henry
Rail Talk, 56
Raim, Ethel, 106
“Rain, Rain, Go Away,” 190
Rainbow (musical group), 203
Rainger, Ralph, 365
Raitt, Bonnie, 400
“Ramblin Rose” (Sherman, J., Sherman, N.), 179
“Ramblin Rose” (Wilkin, Burch), 179
Rambling Rose (film), 179
“Rambling Rose” (McCarthy, Burke), 179
Ramsey, Obray, 10
Rancho Cucamonga, California, 233–234
Randall, Bill, 180
Ratdog (musical group), 389, 426
“KC Moan” performed by, 363
studio recordings by, 400, 402
Ray, John, 192
Raynor, Hal, 80
RCA, 33
Reagan, Ronald, 174
The Real Bahamas, 60
Rebennack, Mac, 277
Red Rocks Amphitheater (Morrison, Colorado), 235, 280, 287, 288, 289, 290, 395, 410
“The Red Shoes” (Andersen), xiv
Redding, Otis, 218
Relf, Bob, 184
R.E.M. (musical group), xxx
Remains Concerning Britain (Camden), 200
Reno, Jesse Lee, 111–112
Reno, Nevada, 111–112
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle), 100
“Return of the Grievous Angel” (Parsons), 388
“Reuben and Rachel” (Birch), 361
Revel, Harry, 81
“Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues: A First Transcription,” 329
Revolver (Beatles), 29
Rex Foundation, 275
Richard III, 332
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Coleridge), 150–151
“Ring a Ring a Rosie,” 80, 135, 180, 316
“Ring the Bells of Heaven” (Root/Cushing), 200
Ringling Bros. Circus, 338
Ripley, Robert Leroy, 344
Ripley’s Believe It or Not (cartoon), 344
“River Deep, Mountain High” (Greenwich, Barry, Spector), 364
“Riverboat Shuffle” (Trumbauer), 184
Robbins, Marty, 144
Robinson, Bartholomew, 387
Robinson, Jerry, 416–417
Rochester, New York, 323
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 52
Rodgers, Jimmie, 25
Rogers, K., 125
“Roll Muddy River” (Osborne Brothers), 332
Rollerball, 115
“Rolling Mill Blues” (Howell), 13
Rolling Stone, xxiii
Rolling Stones (musical group), xxiii, 65, 277
Rolling Thunder (shaman), 227, 275, 366
Rom. See Gypsies Roosevelt, Eleanor, 313
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 220
Root, George E, 200
Roscoe Maples Pavilion (Stanford University), 201, 204, 205, 206, 208, 210
Rose, Vincent, 230
Rosenfeld, Monroe H., 219
“Rosewood Track.” See “Ivory Wheels” Rosie (Lamott), 234
“Row, Row, Row” (traditional), xv, 196
Royce, Anya, 103
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 105
Rubber Soul (Beatles), 29
Rucka Rucka Ranch (Marin County, California), 226–227
“Run Mountain” (traditional), 104
Rush, Goldie Carolyn, 237
Russell, Leon, 181
Ruwenzori mountains (Africa), 74
S
Sacheverell, Lucy, 293
Sacramento, California, 385, 386
“Sad Condition” (Sharp #263), 209
“Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (Dylan), 196
Sage, Anna, 89
Saint Angel (imaginary place), 100
Saint, Eva Marie, 151
Saint of Circumstance: The Untold Story Behind the Alex Kelley Rape Case: Growing up Rich and Out of Control (Weller), 302
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (Belvedere, California), 62
St. Denis’s Prayer, 116
St. Francis of Assisi, 259
St. Helens, Mount (Washington state), 274
St. Louis Arena (St. Louis, Missouri), 276
“St. Louis Blues” (Handy), 186
St. Louis, Missouri, 64, 186, 281, 286, 426
St. Michael’s Alley (restaurant), 153
St. Nicholas, 100
St. Paul, 236
St. Paul, Minnesota, 168
St. Peter, 43
Salicin, 122
“Sally Goodin” (traditional), 104
Salt Lake City, Utah, 214, 227–228
“Salt on a Magpie’s Tail,” 370
“The Same Old Tale the Crow Told Me,” 105
Samson (biblical character), 143, 254
“Samson and Delilah” (traditional), 143, 254–255
Samudio, Domingo, 157
San Angelo, Texas, 100
San Anselmo, California, 186
San Bernardino County, California, 233, 268
San Carlos, California, 104
San Francisco, California. See specific place names and venues in San Francisco
The San Francisco Chronicle, 29
San Francisco Giants, 366
San Francisco State College (San Francisco, California), 29
San Francisco State Trips Festival, 29
San Francisco Zoo, 67
San Joaquin County, California, 113
San Mateo, California, 387, 425
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 44, 46, 226
San Rafael, California, 326, 414
Sanders, Lewis, 137
Sandoz (musical group), 34
Sandy (Merry Prankster), 45
Santa Ana del Chino (land grant), 112
Santa Barbara, California, 170
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 30
Santa Rita Jail (Alameda County, California), 234
Santa Venetia Armory (Marin County, California), 174
Saratoga Springs, New York, 404
Satires (Juvenal), 182
“Saturdays Child” (Monkees/Gates), 296
“Saturdays Child” (proverb), 296
Saunders, Wallace, 87
Savitt, Jan, 184
Sayers, Frances Clarke, 230–231
Scandinavia, 55
Scarborough, William, 139
Scenes from the Southside, 137
Schefter, James, 309
Scheherazade, 92–93
Schickele, Peter, 180
Schmidt, Erwin R., 299
Schulz-Reichel, Fritz, 180
Schwartz, Jean, 124
Schwartz, Tracy, 106
Scotland, traditional music of, 217, 365
Scott, Joseph, 125
Scotus, Duns, 213
Scranton, Pennsylvania, 396
Scully, Rock, 415
Searching for the Sound (Lesh), 23, 236–237
Seastones, xxv
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band (Beatles), 29
“Secret Agent Man” (Sloan, Barri), 25
The Secret Garden (Burnett), 69
Sedgwick, Edie, 197
Seeger, Mike, 106
Seeger, Peggy, 97
Seeger, Pete, 139
Seibert, T Lawrence, 87–88
Seminole Square (fictitious place), 376
Seneca (philosopher), 100, 148
Serra, Junipero, 259
710 Ashbury St. (San Francisco, California), 46, 225, 259
“Seven Come Eleven” (Christian), 114
Shadowfall Ward (fictitious place), 376
“Shady Grove” (traditional), 104
Shady Grove (Garcia and Grisman), 35, 89
Shaftesbury, England, 77
Shairo, Elliot, 87–88
“Shake Shake, Mama” (Lipscomb), 39
“Shake Sugaree.” See “I’ve Got a Secret”
Shakespeare, William, 69, 179, 245, 296–297
Share-Our-Wealth Society, 220
Shaw, Wilbur, 346
Shelly, Mary [Godwin], 181–182
“Shelter from the Storm” (Dylan), 388
Shelton, Lee “Stack Lee,” 281
Ship of Fools (film), 223
Ship of Fools (Porter), 223
“Shortnin’ Bread” (Dupree), 73
“Showboat Shuffle” (Oliver), 184
Shrine Exhibition Hall (Los Angeles), 51, 77
“Shuffle Along” (Sissle, Blake), 184
“Shuffle Off to Buffalo” (Dubin, Warren), 133
“Shufflin Sam” (Wodehouse, Kern), 184
Siddhartha Gautama, 55
Signs of the Times (Carlyle), 101
Silberman, Dina, 106
Silberman, Steve, 263–264, 302, 332–333
“The Silk Merchants Daughter” (Sharp #64), 74
Silver Apples of the Moon (Subotnick), 235
The Silver Stallion (Cabell), 352
Sing Out!, 97
The Singing Hills, 230
“Sink the Bismark” (Horton), 105
Sirens (mythological creatures), 302
Sissle, Noble, 183
Sitwell, Dame Edith, 56
“Sixteen Tons” (Travis), 257, 363
Sleeping Beauty, 68
Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers (musical group), 104
“Slip Knot” (Guthrie), 416
Sloan, P. E, 25
Smith, Al, 365
Smith, Bob. See Wolfman Jack
Smith, Chris, 95
Smith, Patti, 101
Smoky Hill Trail, 145
Snake Oil (Stiff Dead Cat), 84
Snyder, Gary, 74
Socrates, 268
Soft Machine (musical group), 131
The Soft Machine (Burroughs), 131
“Soft Shoe Shuffle” (Williams, Burman), 184
Soldier Field (Chicago), 139
Solon (poet), 265
Song Archivist (Lomax), 84
“Song of Myself” (Whitman), 129
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” (Yeats), 235
Songs of Experience (Blake), 341
Sophocles (philosopher), 172
“Sourwood Mountain” (traditional), 119
South Carolina, 104
South Kensington, England, xviii
South Mountain, Battle of, 111
Southern California Music Company, 88
Southern Pacific Railroad, 14
SPAC (Saratoga Springs, New York), 404
Sparks, Lee, 115
Sparks, Randy, 182
Spectrum (Philadelphia), 238
Speed Racer (cartoon character), 329
Speedway Meadows (San Francisco), 109
Speegle, Paul, 199
Speke, John, 338
Spence, Joseph, 60
Spiral Light, 268
Spivey, William, 125
“The Springhill Mine Disaster” (Seeger), 97
Sri Lanka, 425
St. Louis, Missouri, 64
“Stagger Lee” (traditional), 281–285
Stagolee Shot Billy (Brown), 281–285
“Standin’ on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)” (Rodgers), 25
“Standing in the Soul” (interview), 263–264
“Standing on the Corner” (Four Lads), 25
Stanford University (Stanford, California), 201, 204, 205, 206, 208, 210
Stanley, Augustus Owsley, III. See Owsley Stanley Brothers, 139
Stanley, Henry Morton, 338
“Stardust”, xv
Starry Night Over the Rhone (painting), 267
The Stars My Destination (Bester), 249
“The Star-Spangled Banner” (Keye), 366
“Station Man” (Fleetwood Mac), 278
“Stealin’ ” (traditional), 35
“Steamboat Bill” (traditional), 108
Stearn, Thomas, 268
Steel, Danielle, 343
Steely Dan (musical group), 199
Stella (poetic pseudonym), 195–196, 294, 396
Stephen I, King of Hungary, 62
Stephen, J. K., 176
Sterne, Laurence, 337
Stevens, George, 142
Stevens, Ray, 229
Stevens, Wallace, 194–195
Stevenson, Adlai, 313
Stiff Dead Cat (musical group), 84
Stills, Stephen, 31
Stock, Larry, 230
Stoddard, Joshua C., 64
Stoker, Bram, 5
“Stormy Monday Blues” (Bland), 40
“Stormy Weather” (Arlen/Koehler), 347
Stormy Weather (Hiaasen), 140
“The Story the Crow Told Me” (traditional), 105
A Streetcar Named Desire, 195
Strong, Martin C., 131
“Study War No More” (traditional), 104
Subotnick, Morton, 235
“Subterranean Homesick Blues” (Dylan), xv
“Such a Night” (Doctor John), 365
Sugaree, Liberia, 160
The Summit (Houston, Texas), 348
Sun (record label), 40
Sunday, Billy, 177
“Sunflower Cat (Some Dour Cat) (Down with That)” (Hornsby), 57
The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, 185
“Sweet and Low-Down” (Gershwin brothers), 384
“Sweet Home Alabama” (Lynyrd Skynyrd), 304
“Sweet Jane” (Velvet Underground), 133
“Sweet Sunny South” (traditional), 104
Swift, Jonathan, 195–196, 294, 369, 370
Swing Auditorium (San Bernardino, California), 268
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (traditional), 109, 253
Swing Time (film), 305
Sycamore Slough (fictitious place), 376
de Sylva, Buddy G., 313
Sylvie and Bruno (Carroll), 196
“Syncopated Shuffle” (Ellington), 184
T
Taft, William Howard, 193
Tao te Ching, 129
Tara (goddess), 34
Taylor, Koko, 373
“Tea for Two” (Youmans/Caesar), 231
Tear Down the Walls (Martin and Neil), 33
Tell, William, 64
Tempe, Arizona, 319
Temple, Shirley, 305
The Ten Commandments, 270
Tennessee Jed (radio show character), 165
Tennyson, Alfred, 354
Tergit, Gabriele, 42–43, 59, 69
Texas, 20, 22, 30, 115. See also specific place names in Texas
“Texas Flood,” 125
Texas-Pacific Railroad, 22
Thailand, 425
“That’s the Way Love Is” (Bland), 40
Them (musical group), 40
There and Back Again (Phil Lesh & Friends), 392, 394
“There is a Mountain” (Donovan), 38
“There is a Tavern in the Town” (anonymous), 242
“There’s a Hole in the Bucket” (traditional), 54
Theseus (mythological character), 294–295
Theseus (Shakespearean character), 245–246
“Thirsty Boots” (Andersen), 211
Thomas, A. J. “Fatty,” 86–87
Thomas, Bob, 192
Thomas, F. W, 198
Thomas, Henry, 22
Thompson, Ashley, 21
“Those Old Cumberland Mountain Farm Blues” (traditional), 98–99
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (Burke), 339
“Three Men Went A-Hunting” (traditional), 104
Tiger in a Trance (Ludington), 302
Till, Emmett, 158
Tilzer, Harry von, 48
Timbuktu, 20
“Time Passes Slowly” (Dylan), 270
“ ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer” (Moore), 331
Tivoli Gardens (Copenhagen, Denmark), 193
“To the Evening Star” (Blake), 267–268
Today Is the Highway (Andersen), 211
Tom Banjo (nickname), 76–77
Toussaint, Allen, 277
Trans-Continental Pop Festival. See Festival Express Tour
A Treasury of American Folklore (Botkin), 86
Trichromes (musical group), 389
“Trio for Two Cats and a Trombone” (Sitwell), 56
Trios, 382
Trist, Alan, 54, 83–84, 121, 228, 380
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 337
Triumph of Death, 201
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 109
“Trooper and Maid” (Sharp #299), 83
Trouper’s Club (Los Angeles), 15
Troy, Sandy, 174
“Truckin’ ” (Koehler, Bloom), 131
Trumbauer, Frankie, 184
Tubman, Harriet, 79
Tucker, Sophie, 385
Tuolumne County, California, 113
“Turn On Your Love Light” (Bland), 40
Turner, Ike and Tina, 364
Turtle Island, 266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. See Memorial Coliseum
Tweeter Center (Mansfield, Massachusetts), 398
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” (traditional), 59
Twelve Flags of the American Revolution, 104
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 334
“The Two Sisters” (Child #10; Sharp #5), 76
2001: A Space Odyssey, 196
Tyler, Wat, 169
U
Uganda, 74
Uncle Dave Macon (musical group), 165
Uncle Sam, 218–219
Unfamiliar Territory (Sandoz), 34
Union Pacific Railroad, 145
Uniondale, New York, 211, 215, 422
United Artists, 192
University of Alabama, 278
University of California, Berkeley, 29, 324
University of Cincinnati, 115
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, xxx
University of Connecticut, 106, 425
University of Michigan, 425
University of Minnesota, 166, 169, 170, 173, 175, 182
University of Vermont, 321
University of Virginia, 29, 123
The Unstrung Harp: Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel (Gorey), 126–127
“Up Around the Bend” (Creedence Clearwater Revival), 339
“Upon the Loss of His Mistresses” (Herrick), 369
Upper Limbo, 125
V
“A Valentine” (Poe), 189
La Vallée (Obscured by Clouds), 388
Van Allsburg, Chris, 127
Van Ronk, Dave, 255
Vancouver, British Columbia, 232
Vanport floods (Washington state), 205
Vatican, 246
Vaughn, Stevie Ray, 125
Velvet Underground (musical group), 133
Venice, California, 88
Venus (goddess), 42, 43, 44, 267–268
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Indianapolis, Indiana), 390
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Virginia Beach, Virginia), 394
Verne, Jules, 334
“A Very Cellular Song” (Incredible String Band), 60
Vesey, Denmark, 179
“Viola Lee Blues” (Cannon’s Jug Stompers), xxiii, 21
Virgil (poet), 265
Virginia, 10, 29, 123, 139, 394
Vlad V of Wallachia (Vlad the Impaler), 5
Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, 352
W
Wade in the Water (Jones), 79, 178–179
“Wade in the Water” (traditional), 78–80
Wake Up Dead Man (Jackson), 11
Waldman, Anne, 263
Walker, Jerry Jeff, 305
Wallace, George, 107
“The Wanderer” (Williams), 333
“Wang Dang Doodle” (Taylor/Dixon), 373
Ward, Samuel A., 168
Warfield (San Francisco), 207
Warhol, Andy, 197
Warlocks (musical group), xxii, 204. See also Grateful Dead
“Was There a Time” (Thomas), 172
Washington, George, 98, 107, 219
Wasserman, Rob, 382
The Wasteland (Eliot), 213, 420
Watson, Burton, 56
Watson, John F., 160
Watson, R.P., 229
Wavy Gravy, 67
Webster’s Dictionary, 169
Weill, Kurt, 415
Weir, Bob. See also Ratdog
about, 424
“Cassidy” comments by, 228
“Easy Answers” comments by, 382
“Equinox” comments by, 279
Grahams collaboration with, 426
Haight-Ashbury room of, 46
Kingfish collaboration with, 48, 251
“Looks Like Rain” comments by, 188
as lyricist, xxi, xxii, 5, 31, 32, 44–45, 170, 174, 186, 190, 405, 415
“Me and My Uncle” notes from, 31
Pessis collaboration with, 400
“Picasso Moon” comments by, 357
presidents cited by, 174
as singer, 20, 34, 119, 133, 142, 148, 169, 190, 316, 366, 395, 422
solo and side project albums of, 227 see also Kingfish, Ratdog
Ace, 143, 144, 148, 149, 170, 186, 190, 227, 228
Weir Here, 382
“ten thousand” preferred by, 143
touring memories of, 133
Uncle Sam viewed by, 218–219
“Victim or the Crime” comments by, 336–337
Young’s collaboration with, 382
Weir, Frankie, 226
Weir, Roberta, 152
Welch, Lew, xxiii
Weller, Sheila, 302
Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts), 168
Welnick, Vince, 366
WERE radio station (Cleveland, Ohio), 180
Wesleyan College (Middletown, Connecticut), 424
West, August (song character), 150, 152
West Springfield, Massachusetts, 77
Wharf Rats (Deadhead group), 150
“What’ll We Do With the Baby?” (Sharp #228), 90
Wheeler, Mary, 285
“White Rabbit” (Jefferson Airplane), 5
White, T. H., 100
Whitman, Slim, 179
The Who (musical group), 46, 347, 403
“Whole Lotta Shakin’ ” (Lewis/Williams, Hall), 378
Williams, Alfred, 219
Williams, Dave, 378
Williams, J. M., 368
Williams, Tennessee, 169, 192, 195
Williams, William Carlos, 333
Williamson, Robin, 60
Wind in the Willows (Grahame), 230–231
“Winin Boy Blues” (Morton), 209, 363
Winnemucca, 420
Winterland Arena (San Francisco), xxxi
closing of, 365
performances, 35, 47, 120, 139, 184, 186, 220, 221, 223, 243, 244, 247, 273–274
Wisconsin, 84
performances in, 339, 340, 343, 345
Woden (god), 92
Wolf Man, 181
Wolfman Jack (radio personality), 181, 402
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 181
Womack, David, 51
Wong, Bernard P., 183
Wood, Randy, 180
Woodstock (music festival), 225
“Woolly Bully” (Samudio), 157
Works and Days (Hesiod), 212
Wray, Fay, 251
Wright, Harold Bell, 203
Wrubel, Allie, 89
Wyler, William, 251
Wyoming, 227, 421, 424. See also Cora, Wyoming
X
Xanadu (mythological place), 90–92
XERF radio station (Mexico), 181
Y
Yale Bowl (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut), 158, 161
Yeats, William Butler, 126, 173, 235, 417
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 197
“You Send Me” (Cooke), 408
Youmans, Vincent, 231
Young, Joe, 124
Young, Nathan, 286
Young, Neil, 31, 304, 317, 382
“You re the Top” (Porter), 384
Z
“Zekiel Saw De Wheel” (traditional), 258, 271–272
Zemba Queca (Brazilian dance), 384
Zen Buddhism, 55
Zero (musical group), 425
Zimels, Peter Richard, xxi–xxii, xxiii, 425
Zodiac Killer, 84