Grateful Dead Guide

Occasionally I add long comments/updates to old posts, which I prefer to silently revising the posts or making updates in separate new posts...

I still have many hours of listening to do before I finish my next post, so I've decided to start something new here. From time to time ...

This will be my shortest post ever! For folks who are curious about Ned Lagin's involvement with the Dead, I was in a lengthy discussi...

Born to the fanfare of World War II victory parades, Pigpen grew up listening to the blues. His father was a boogie-woogie pianist and R...

In my last post, I took the Hartbeats story up to the summer of 1970: http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2011/03/1968-firing.html Now I’ll pic...