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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Berkeleyside Covers the OLLI Course on the Dead

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So grateful to Berkeleyside , the award-winning news site, for running a piece on my Grateful Dead course at UC Berkeley's Osher Lifelo...
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Ralph J. Gleason and the Grateful Dead

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My forthcoming book on the Grateful Dead has a lot to say about Ralph J. Gleason, who covered music (and the San Francisco music scene) for ...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Grateful Dead Sign with UMPG

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The Grateful Dead signed a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), which will handle global administration of the Dead's son...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Review of The Invisible Bridge

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My first book review at The National Memo. This is the third volume in Rick Perlstein's epic history of the modern conservative movemen...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Branford Marsalis on Playing with the Grateful Dead

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This material is too late to include in the book, but I relished Branford Marsalis's reflections on playing with the Dead in 1991. Lots...
Friday, August 29, 2014

The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

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Truthdig posted my review of Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs today. It was my good fortune to attend ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Victoria Beckham Rocking the Dead T-shirt at LAX

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Happily, the accompanying article explained everything: "The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, Calif...

The Eagle Has (Almost) Landed

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The advance reading copies for the book arrived this week. St. Martin's Press moved up the publication date to January, and I'm stil...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Books I Have Known

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Not much blogging lately for three reasons: paid work, including the Grateful Dead manuscript; book-reviewin' for Truthdig ; and Facebo...
Monday, March 03, 2014

Terrapin Redux

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Lots to report since my last post, including another visit to the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the usual...
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