Jerry Garcia’s Guitar Tells You What Drug He Was On
Every chemical era of Jerry Garcia’s life is audible on the tape. Acid, cocaine, Persian heroin, the 1986 coma — what to listen for, era by era.
Every chemical era of Jerry Garcia’s life is audible on the tape. Acid, cocaine, Persian heroin, the 1986 coma — what to listen for, era by era.
A police raid, 100,000 uninvited arrivals, and a drug scene turned dangerous — the real reasons the Grateful Dead left 710 Ashbury Street in 1968.
When you think about the architects of the modern internet, you probably don’t imagine a bunch of people following a tie-dye band across America with tape recorders. But the Grateful Dead‘s influence on Silicon Valley and the digital revolution is profound, direct, and largely untold. The Dead didn’t just influence technology culture—they created its foundational…
On May 6-7, 1970, the Grateful Dead stepped onto the stage at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during one of the most turbulent weeks in American college history. Just days earlier, National Guardsmen had opened fire on student protesters at Kent State, killing four. Students across the nation had launched coordinated strikes against the…
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