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Boots In Transit: An Appreciation of the Dead on Cassette

Posted on August 13, 2019August 13, 2019

Author’s note: this article originally appeared in 2012 on a now-defunct website called Dead Journalist. It has been salvaged, edited and updated for Aquarium Drunkard. – j jackson toth

Dead Notes #15 :: The Mickey Hart Interview

Posted on January 9, 2018August 12, 2019

In late 1967 at a Count Basie concert at the famed Fillmore Auditorium two brothers in the groove were introduced by a stranger who quickly disappeared into the technicolor ethers […]

Dead Notes #14 :: The Howard Wales Interview

Posted on November 22, 2017August 12, 2019

It’s no secret Jerry Garcia was a freak of nature when it came to juggling his time with the Grateful Dead and multiple side projects. In 1970 alone, he was […]

Dead Notes #13 :: Cornell, May 8, 1977

Posted on May 8, 2017August 12, 2019

If you’ve been lucky, you’ve found yourself in some college dorm, surrounded by DayGlo tapestries, Nag Champa wafting in the air, stinging your eyes. Your singularly nicknamed but gracious hosts […]

Dead Notes :: The Zine, Issue #2

Posted on April 13, 2017August 12, 2019

How many Deadheads does it take to screw in a light bulb? 1000. One to do it and 999 to tape it. There was a time when yellow envelopes stuffed […]

Dead Notes #12 :: June 8,1974 — Oakland, CA

Posted on March 10, 2016August 12, 2019

1974 is one of the greatest and most transformative years within the Grateful Dead’s history, with two major events setting the tone: the official unveiling of the infamous ‘ Wall of Sound ’ […]

Dead Notes #11 :: March 31,1973 – Buffalo, NY

Posted on August 21, 2015August 12, 2019

Welcome to Dead Notes #11. Forty-two years ago, in the early days of March of 1973, Pigpen and a photographer friend sauntered into the band’s rehearsal space at Stinson Beach Community Center […]

Dead Notes: The Printed Word – Volume I

Posted on June 3, 2015August 12, 2019

Dead Notes: “Where all the print is blood. Where all the pages are my days…” Late last year we compiled all our Dead Notes columns into a print ’zine that heavily nodded […]

Dead Notes #10 :: New Potato Caboose (8/24/68 Los Angeles, CA)

Posted on March 9, 2015August 12, 2019

Welcome to Dead Notes #10 where we revisit Two From the Vault , recently released by Light in the Attic Records for the first time on vinyl. 1968 was a deeply exploratory period in […]

Dead Notes #9 :: (2/22/69 Vallejo, CA)

Posted on November 3, 2014August 12, 2019

Welcome to Dead Notes #9. In early 1969 we find our bohemian freaks spaced out on STP and nitrous oxide, holed up behind a 16-track recording console working on their palindromic 3rd […]

Dead Notes #8 :: Alligator (5/18/68 Santa Clara, CA)

Posted on June 4, 2014August 12, 2019

Welcome to Dead Notes #8 where we find our steadfast pranksters in the pivotal years of 1967 and 1968. Long gone are the proto-psychedelic fuzzy garage jams, replaced with long, exploratory suites […]

Dead Notes #7 :: Hard To Handle (3/24/71 San Francisco, CA)

Posted on February 10, 2014August 12, 2019

And we’re back. Welcome to the seventh installment of Dead Notes where we find our former psychedelic heroes continuing to shed their kaleidoscopic, meandering, ways. Tightening up, both literally and figuratively, by […]

Dead Notes #6 :: Operator (11/8/70 Port Chester, NY)

Posted on December 4, 2013August 12, 2019

Welcome to the sixth installment of Dead Notes , where we find the Grateful Dead in the Fall of 1970, gigging at the famed Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY. Between 1970 […]

Dead Notes #5 :: That’s It For The Other One (9/2/68 Seattle, WA)

Posted on October 8, 2013August 12, 2019

Welcome to the fifth installment of Dead Notes where once again we find ourselves in the great Northwest, at the Sky River Rock Festival, on the outskirts of Seattle in Sultan, WA. […]

Dead Notes #4 :: 9/19/70, Fillmore East / NYC

Posted on September 5, 2013August 12, 2019

Welcome to the fourth installment of Dead Notes . Coming down from the 8/27/72 ‘Dark Star’ featured in #3 we’re heading to New York City’s East Village and the infamous Fillmore East . West coast rock & […]

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