Fare you well my honey Fare you well my only true love All the birds that were singing have flown, except you alone I am not qualified to call myself a Deadhead in the same way that I am not qualified to call myself a Christian. To be a Christian you need to believe inContinue reading “Robert Hunter 1941-2019”
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Pigpen
Every great band has at least one genius, whether or not they want to admit it. The best bands have surplus genius, it reveals itself in its own time, in curious moments, to the surprise and delight of both its perpetrators and audience. The Grateful Dead had Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and BillContinue reading “Pigpen”
The Summer of Love Experience: Music
This is the fifth in a six-part series on The Summer of Love, inspired by The Summer of Love Experience exhibit at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. Chuck Berry set off a time bomb in 1957 that took a decade to fully detonate. In the intervening years, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs broughtContinue reading “The Summer of Love Experience: Music”
Workingman
Garcia/Hunter So I got a job. I’m officially moving back from the takers column to the makers. I’m going back to being a Workingman. 45 years ago this month the Grateful Dead went into the Pacific High recording studio in San Francisco and recorded 8 songs that they released under the title Workingman’s Dead. EveryContinue reading “Workingman”
