by Dante | Jul 20, 2017 | Chapter 6, GDFA
Previous Next THE GRATEFUL DEAD FAMILY IS ADDITIONALLY A COMPLEX CORPORATE SETUP, MAYBE HIPPER THAN THE AVERAGE, WHICH HAS HARDLY REJECTED THE BASIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE CAPITALIST STRUCTURE, BUT SIMPLY FEELS IT CAN DO THE JOB BETTER AND MORE COMPLETELY THAN ANYONE CAN...
by Dante | Jul 19, 2017 | Chapter 6, GDFA
Previous Next MONEY IS SERIOUS, AND SINCE MONEY IS SERIOUS SINCE A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY BEGETS A GREAT DEAL OF GREED, BUT THERE IS NO REASON WHY ALL OF IT HAS TO BE SO STULTIFYINGLY SOLEMN. OUT OF TOWN TOURS, THE DEAD’S BOOKING FIRM. FLY BY NIGHT, A DEAD-INSPIRED...
by Dante | Jul 18, 2017 | Chapter 6, GDFA
Previous Next Look over yonder, tell me what do you see? 10,000 people looking after me I may be famous, or I may be no one But in the end all the races I’ve run Don’t make my race run in vain Seem like there’s no tomorrow Seem like all my yesterdays...
by Dante | Jul 17, 2017 | Chapter 6, GDFA
Previous Next Alembic Healy: At that time we had moved out to Marin County. We had a practice hall up in northern Marin, near Hamilton Air Force Base. In this hall we had our practice complex set up, and there was this old shed out back. That became the technical...
by Dante | Jul 16, 2017 | Chapter 6, GDFA
Previous Next Fast forward to 1988 – Bill Graham’s crew with Bonnie Raitt; from left, Tim Bernett (Bonnie Raitt’s manager), Bettike Barsotti, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Barsotti, Susy Barsotti, Bob Barsotti, and Bill Graham. Bettike’s catering crew at...
by Dante | Jul 15, 2017 | Chapter 6, GDFA
Previous Next These drawings of the Dead’s sound system by Mary Ann Meyer appeared in Dead Head newsletters in 1973 and 1974. They show the metamorphoses from a conventional PA system (below), arranged on towers to stage left and right, to the Wall of Sound,...
