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relationship with Sara Ruppenthal, 57–58, 69, 116, 302
solo albums, 183, 203
solo songs, 183, 216, 253–254, 269
Garcia, Jose “Joe,” 30–32
Garcia, Keelin, 387, 399–401, 406
Garcia, Ruth Marie “Bobbie,” 30–32
Garcia, Theresa “Trixie,” 150, 230, 308, 322–323, 328, 335, 401, 405, 408, 411, 428–430
Garfunkel, Art, 109, 210
George, Lowell, 268–270, 307
“Get Off My Cloud” (Rolling Stones song covered by the Warlocks), 79
Giants Stadium (venue in New Jersey), 270, 361, 388, 408
Ginsberg, Allen, 82
Gleason, Ralph J., 109, 131
“Go Down, Old Hannah” (song), 35, 48
Godchaux, Donna Jean (Grateful Dead singer), 173–174, 181, 185, 201–202, 211, 216, 227, 243, 250, 254, 257, 260–268, 275–276, 281–282
Godchaux, Keith (Grateful Dead keyboard/piano player), 173–174, 207–210, 227, 236, 244, 250, 268–278, 281–282, 292, 326, 373, 377, 380
death, 282, 377
Heart of Gold Band, 282
leaving the Grateful Dead, 278–279
Godshalk-Olsen, Janice, 249
Gold, Debbie, 238, 350
Goldberg, Whoopi, 424
Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California), 12, 244, 328, 430
Golden State Recorders, 87
Gore, Al, 350
Gore, Tipper, 350
Gov’t Mule (band), 437
Graham, Bill (promoter for the Grateful Dead), 5, 13–15, 155–160, 178, 206, 223, 226, 238, 245, 280–283, 300–301, 405
Graham, Gerrit, 356, 370
Gramercy Theatre (venue in New York City), 422 (photo), 423–424, 431–435, 438
Grant, Laird (aka “Barney”), 29, 32, 61, 108–109, 157, 321, 409
Grateful Dead,
bootleg albums, 209–209, 226–227, 301
Dead Ringers (documentary), 334
first use of the Grateful Dead name, 76, 87–89
Grateful Dead Movie, The, 257, 266, 314
in the recording studio, x, 3, 18, 20–21, 111, 113, 137–139, 143–145, 152–153, 170, 183, 207, 210, 222, 237–238, 244, 247, 250–251, 253, 289, 291, 297, 304–307, 309–310, 326, 354, 356
office in San Rafael (California), 204, 229, 268, 332, 361, 441, 428
rechristening as the Dead, 422 (photo), 435
So Far (performance clip film), 334, 352
Grateful Dead albums,
American Beauty, x, 170, 172–173, 207, 221–222, 334, 396
Anthem of the Sun, 144–145, 147, 238, 251, 355
Aoxomoxoa, 19, 152–155, 160, 202, 238
Blues for Allah, 236, 243–245, 247, 437
Built to Last, 356, 369–370, 374, 388, 410, 436
Dead Set, 285–286, 346
Dick’s Picks, 344, 442
Dylan and the Dead, 350
Europe ’72, 184, 187, 190, 198, 217
From the Mars Hotel, 211, 226, 236, 243
Go to Heaven, 279, 281, 292, 314
In the Dark, x, 314, 327, 330, 334–336, 342–343, 345, 354, 369–371, 388
Live/Dead, 139, 154–155
One from the Vault, 344
Reckoning, 285–286
Shakedown Street, 269–270, 275
Steal Your Face, 245
Terrapin Station, 251–252, 254, 261–263, 268–269, 272, 275, 293, 297, 351
Grateful Dead, otherwise known as “Skull and Roses,” 114, 142, 187, 210, 346
Wake of the Flood, 206–210, 226–227
Without a Net, 378
Workingman’s Dead, x, 17, 21, 169–171, 207, 213, 284, 434
Grateful Dead concert elements,
“Drums” segment, 284–285, 341, 355, 358, 368
“Shakedown Street” area, 363, 341
“Space” segment, 285, 341, 358, 368
tapers, 301–302, 341
Grateful Dead Merchandising, 405
Grateful Dead Productions, 405, 432, 435
Grateful Dead Records, 206–208, 210–211, 224–228, 246–247, 257–258, 295
Grateful Dead songs,
“Alabama Getaway,” 279, 292
“Alligator,” 5, 124, 144
“Althea,” 279
“And We Bid You Goodnight,” 154
“Baba O’Riley” (cover of the Who song), 399
“Beat It on Down the Line” (cover of the Jesse Fuller song), 113, 216
“Bertha,” 186, 358
“Big Railroad Blues,” 187
“Bird Song,” 424
“Black Muddy River,” 326–327, 410, 420
“Black Peter,” 19–20
“Blow Away,” 237, 358
“Box of Rain,”” 170–171, 410, 420
“Brokedown Palace,” 169
“Brown-Eyed Women,” 184
“Built to Last,” 358, 370
“Can’t Come Down,” 87
“Candyman,” 170
“Casey Jones,” x, 17–18, 175, 247, 424
“Cassidy,” 284, 378
“Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks),” 80, 285
“Childhood’s End,” 410
“China Cat Sunflower,” x, 5, 152, 185, 216, 296, 440
“China Doll,” 211
“Cold Rain and Snow,” 114, 376
“Comes a Time,” 254
“Cosmic Charlie,” 152
“Crazy Fingers,” 237, 358, 376, 408
“Cream Puff War,” 113
“Cumberland Blues,” 18–19, 184, 424
“Dancin’ in the Streets” (cover of the Martha and the Vandellas song), 5, 251, 269
“Dark Star,” 5, 136–137, 139, 145–146, 150, 154, 163, 169, 296, 325, 329, 437–438
“Days Between,” 409
“Deal,” 253
“Dear Mr. Fantasy” (cover of the Traffic song), 378
“Death Don’t Have No Mercy,” 154
“Dire Wolf,” 2, 9–11, 17, 19, 20–21, 350, 393, 395, 404, 424
“Doin’ That Rag,” 152
“Don’t Ease Me In,” 111, 279
“Dupree’s Diamond Blues,” 152
“Early Morning Rain” (cover of the Gordon Lightfoot song), 87
“Easy Answers,” 410
“Easy to Love You,” 279
“Easy Wind,” 18, 20
“Equinox,” 237
“Estimated Prophet,” 249–250, 376, 383
“Eternity,” 410
“Eyes of the World,” 207, 216, 440
“Far from Me,” 279
“Feedback,” 154
“Fire on the Mountain,” 254, 390
“Foolish Heart,” 346, 357, 370–371
“Franklin’s Tower,” 237, 244, 384, 438
“Friend of the Devil,” 170, 213
“Good Lovin’,” 184, 255, 269
“Good Morning Little School Girl,” 113–114
“Greatest Story Ever Told (from Weir’s Ace), 216, 358
“He’s Gone,” 184, 187
“Hell in a Bucket,” 327, 391
“Help on the Way/Slipknot!,” 237, 243, 287
“Here Comes Sunshine,” 207, 394
“High Time,” 5, 21, 254, 340, 376
“I Know You Rider” (traditional), 87, 111, 184, 381
“I Need a Miracle,” 269
“I Will Take You Home,” 357, 374, 379
“Iko Iko” (cover), 254, 313, 346
“It Must Have Been the Roses,” 284
“Jack Straw,” 184, 284
“Just a Little Light,” 374
“Katie Mae” (cover of the Lightnin’ Hopkins song), 5
“Keep Your Day Job,” 291, 305, 309
“King Bee,” 65, 169
“King Solomon’s Marbles,” 244, 437
“Lazy River Road,” 397, 409, 420
“Let It Grow,” 384
“Let Me Sing Your Blues Away,” 207
“Looks Like Rain” (from Weir’s Ace), 183, 254
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“Loose Lucy,” 236
“Lost Sailor,” 279
“Mason’s Children,” 18, 434
“Mindbender,” 87
“Mississippi Halfstep Uptown Toodleloo,” 207
“Money Money,” 211
“Morning Dew,” 49, 185, 253
“Mountains of the Moon,” 152
“My Brother Esau,” 290, 297–298
“New Minglewood Blues,” 253, 391
“New Potato Caboose,” 144
“New Speedway Boogie,” 12, 18
“Next Time You See Her,” 189
“One More Saturday Night,” 172
“Operator,” 173
“Passenger,” 250
“Picasso Moon,” 357, 371
“Playing in the Band,” 185, 438
“Pride of Cucamonga,” 211
“Promised Land” (cover of the Chuck Berry song), 201, 243
“Ripple,” 11, 169, 284, 387–388, 424
“Row Jimmy,” 207
“Rosemary,” 152
“Saint of Circumstance,” 279
“Samba in the Rain,” 410
“Sand Castles and Glass Camels,” 244
“Scarlet Begonias,” 211, 254, 282
“Ship of Fools,” 202
“Shit Happens,” 354–356
“Sing Me Back Home” (cover of the Merle Haggard song), 185
“So Many Roads,” 410, 420
“St. Stephen,” 139, 152, 154, 437, 440
“Standing on the Moon,” 354, 370
“Stealin’,” 111
“Stella Blue,” 207
“Sugar Magnolia,” 170, 183, 219
“Sunrise,” 250–251, 260
“Tennessee Jed,” 216, 296
“Terrapin Station Part 1,” 250–252, 254, 263
“That’s It for the Other One,” 144
“The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion),” 114, 146
“The Music Never Stopped,” 243, 254
“The Only Time Is Now,” 87
“The Other One,” 187, 216, 285, 387
“The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion),” 189
“The Weight” (cover of the Band song), 377
“Throwing Stones,” 290, 327, 434
“Touch of Grey,” 312 (photo), 324, 327–345, 350, 364, 371–374, 381, 402, 420, 437
“Truckin’,” 3, 170, 216, 255, 285
“Turn on Your Love Light,” 154
“U.S. Blues,” 202, 211–212, 216, 226
“Unbroken Chain,” 211
“Uncle John’s Band,” 19, 284, 358
“Unusual Occurrences in the Desert,” 238, 244
“Victim or the Crime,” 356, 370, 410, 434, 436
“Viola Lee Blues,” 80, 114, 438
“Wake Up, Little Susie” (cover of the Everly Brothers song), 5, 34
“Wave to the Wind,” 410
“Way to Go Home,” 410
“We Can Run,” 346, 370
“Weather Report Suite,” 207
“West L.A. Fadeaway,” 290, 310, 327
“Wharf Rat,” 186, 254
“When Push Comes to Shove,” 326–327
“You Don’t Have to Ask,” 111
Grateful Dead Ticket Sales (GTDS), 394, 405
Great American Music Hall (venue in San Francisco, California), 244, 344
Greaves, R. B., 173
Greenbriar Boys (band), 43
Greene, Herb, 52 (photo), 76–77, 79, 407
Greene, Richard, 214
Griffin, Rick, 152
Grisman, David, 213–214
Gutierrez, Gary, 257, 314, 324, 335–336, 371–374, 379
Hagen, Mike, 85
See also Merry Pranksters
Haggard, Merle, 185
Haight Ashbury, 6, 8, 74 (photo), 103–133, 137–140
Haight Ashbury Legal Organization (HALO), 128
Haight Theater (venue in San Francisco, California, reopened as the Straight Theater), 122
Hajdu, David, 28, 44–48, 59, 64, 66, 72, 79, 87, 108, 118, 247, 333
Hall, Jim, 185
Harpo, Slim, 65
Harris, Marilyn, 121
Harrison, Hank, 77
Hart Music, 123–125
Hart Valley Drifters, 39, 41, 56
Hart, Frankie (née Judy Louise Doop), 7, 10, 140–142, 157, 170, 188, 222, 231–232, 259–260, 325
Hart, Lenny, 15–17, 123, 152, 157, 171, 184, 202, 232–235
Hart(man), Michael Steven “Mickey” (Grateful Dead drummer), xiii, 2–3, 7–8, 9, 12, 15–18, 131, 139, 145–150, 152, 160, 171–172, 200 205, 244–246, 249–252, 258, 260, 262, 266–267, 269, 271, 280, 289, 291–292, 297, 301, 307, 308–310, 313, 318, 322, 325, 329–332, 335, 337, 341, 346, 352, 355–356, 358, 362, 367, 379, 399–401, 408, 423–426, 428, 432–433, 435, 437–438, 441, 443
car accident, 260–261
“Hart’s Delight” (Novato ranch), 7, 18, 140, 171, 200, 233, 271, 304
hiatus from the band, 171–172, 200, 233–234, 236
joining the Grateful Dead, 124–126
meeting Kreutzmann, 122–123
Mickey and the Hartbeats, 149
the Mickey Hart Band, 441
relationship with Caryl Ohrbach Hart, 405–406, 420
relationship with Joan Baez, 302–304
Snorter (horse), 8
solo albums, 233, 441
working relationship with Bill Kreutzmann, 122–125, 146, 163, 234, 249, 253–255, 285
See also Diga Rhythm Band; Mystery Box
Hassinger, Dave, 113, 142–143, 202
Havens, Richie, 115
Hawaii, 31, 395, 397, 400–406, 415, 425–428, 431–432, 438, 441
Haynes, Warren, 422 (photo), 424, 433, 437, 440, 443
Healy, Dan, 121, 159, 177, 194, 225, 271–273, 301–302, 344
Heard, Clifford Dale “Sonny,” 177
Heart of Gold Band, 282
Heartbeeps (film), 294
Hefner, Hugh, 16
Hells Angels, 1, 13–15, 82, 180, 199, 231, 255, 261, 318, 321–322
Hellman, David, 228–229, 246, 294, 405
Helm, Levon, 441
Helms, Chet, 108, 136, 155–157
Henley, Don, 348, 368, 386
Heroin, 258, 270, 275, 293, 318, 323–324, 377, 406, 437, 429
See also Drugs
Herring, Jimmy, 433–434, 447
Hidalgo, David, 431
Highway 101 (CA), 75
“Hillbilly” music, 44
Hillman, Chris, 12
Hippie culture, x, 3, 6, 29, 100, 131–132, 137, 155, 158, 166, 176, 204, 217, 222, 245, 254, 290, 314–316, 387, 439
Holly, Buddy, xi, 44
Hornsby, Bruce, 366 (photo), 367–375, 380–391, 398, 427–429, 432–433, 439
Hot Tuna (band), 189
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (film), 10
Houston, Cisco, 43
Houston, Whitney, 43, 330, 343
Howlin’ Wolf, 65
Hunter, Robert “Bob” (Grateful Dead lyricist), 24 (photo), 37–41, 56–57, 64, 81, 169–172, 180–184, 202, 235–237, 244–245, 254, 293, 298, 326–330, 346, 352–358, 370, 387–388, 401–402, 409–410, 420, 429, 432, 440
friendship and working relationship with Jerry Garcia, 9–11, 18–19, 29, 37–38, 40, 137–139, 152, 169, 183, 186, 207, 211, 250, 279, 290–291, 318, 322, 326, 354, 358, 396–397
and Scientology, 151
“The Ten Commandments of Rock ’n’ Roll,” 180–181
Hunter, Meredith, 15
See also Altamont Speedway
Ian and Sylvia (band), 11, 166
Ice Nine (publishing company), 435
Ienner, Don, 330–331
In Room (venue in Belmont, California), 78–80, 100, 189
Inglewood Forum (venue in California), 364
Irvine Meadows Amphitheater (venue in Irvine, California), 361
Jackson, Blair, 36, 57, 116, 143, 295–297, 323
Jackson, Donald “Rex,” 14–15,
158, 167–168, 177, 181, 187, 225, 234, 260, 301
Jagger, Mick, 14
Jane’s Addiction (band), 387–388
Jazz music, 29, 54, 64, 68, 80, 90, 108–109, 112, 146, 185, 214, 243, 276–277, 295, 306, 309, 376, 380–382, 437
Jefferson Airplane (band), 12, 78, 91, 106, 110, 115, 130, 156, 170, 195, 204
Jefferson Starship (band), 239, 244, 252, 382
Jensen, Rhonda, 8, 260
Jensen, Sherry, 8–9
Jensen, Vicki, 8–9, 14, 162, 204, 233, 260, 281, 400–401, 406
Jerky Boys, 367
Jerry Garcia Band, 230, 268, 275, 295, 298, 353, 414
Joe Louis Arena (venue in St. Louis, Missouri), 347
Johnson, Jill (later Jill Lesh), 293, 326, 397, 405, 425, 435
Johnson, Robert, 395
Jones, Elvin, 68
Joplin, Janis, 11, 40, 100, 106, 155
Jorstad, Tim, 431
Journey (band), 289, 441
Jug band music, 54–55, 63–67, 80, 86, 187
Kadlecik, John, 440–441
Kaffel, Phil, 297, 306–307, 309–310
Kahn, John, 173, 213–214, 268, 275, 295, 299, 328, 414, 427–429
Kahn, Linda, 213, 295, 352, 427–429
Kant, Hal, 228, 246, 344, 412
Kantner, Paul, 110
Katz, Adam, 363–364
Kaufman, Antoinette “Toni,” 102 (photo), 128
Kaufman, Denise (aka “Mary Microgram”), 71, 89, 96, 98
See also Merry Pranksters
Kaukonen, Jorma “Jerry,” 40, 58, 65, 78, 106
Kelley, Alton, 152
Kelly, Matthew, 42, 229–230, 260, 269–270, 293, 428, 434, 439
Kennedy, Caroline, 350
Kennedy, John F., 26–27, 29, 48, 56
Kennedy, John Jr., 350
Kepler, Roy, 26–28, 37–39, 44–46, 59, 62
Kerouac, Jack, 82, 305–306
Kesey, Chuck, 296
Kesey, Faye, 81, 116
Kesey, Ken, 9, 13, 76, 80–98, 116–117, 158, 183, 188, 216, 270, 280, 290, 296, 429
Acid Test, 75–79, 82–87, 91–115, 129, 156, 216, 238, 313
relationship with Mountain Girl, 9, 84–86, 116, 183, 188
See also Merry Pranksters
Kesey, Sunshine, 116–117, 183, 188
Keyboards, 3, 61, 68, 94, 151, 173, 203, 210, 214, 227, 266, 275–278, 316, 323, 326, 357–358, 369–370, 375–379, 382–384, 389, 395–399, 414, 433, 437
Keystone (venue in San Francisco, California), 173–174, 222
Khrushchev, Nikita, 26–27, 48–49, 56
Kingfish (band), 229–230, 259, 269
Kingston Trio (band), 38, 67
Kirby, Scott, 415–416, 419
KMPX (San Francisco radio station), 8, 206
Kool-Aid, 84–86, 94, 98–99
See also Acid Test; Kesey, Ken
Koons, Deborah, 231–232, 257, 407–408, 411, 427–430