Tag Archives: Jerry Garcia
Merry Jerry
Jerry Garcia was born on August 1, 1942 and in 2017 we’re observing his 75th birthday. This anniversary calls to mind my BEST AMERICAN BANDS OF ALL TIME LIST. I won’t get into all of the details of that list here, but I will tell you that when I first made that countdown about 12 [...]
Posted in Music
Tagged Best American Band, bluegrass, Dave Grisman, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Old & In The Way, Peter Rowan, stoner
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Flashback: The Acid Tests
This year we look back on half a century since the first Acid Test at The Fillmore in San Francisco. The psychedelic initiations came courtesy of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters whose exploits were immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s countercultural histoire, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test… With that in mind here’s to another 8 miles-high-stone [...]
Posted in Counter Culture
Tagged 1966, Acid Test, Blank On Blank, Jerry Garcia, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
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