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So Many Roads

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by David Browne


  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

 

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