The British Roots of ‘Touch of Grey’

Published: October 23 2009ByBen Fong-Torres
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Well, just in time for all the most recent hoopla about the Grateful Dead – an upcoming exhibit at the N.Y. Historical Society; a tie-dyed light show on the Empire State Building to celebrate the event – I’ve got The Grateful Dead Scrapbook out. It’s an exhibit on paper: GD memorabilia, artwork and other goodies that readers [...]

Origin of Song: What is a Surrealistic Pillow?

Published: October 21 2009ByDan Alvarez
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On Halloween of 1966, San Francisco’s Jefferson Airplane headed into the studio to craft a follow-up to their debut LP Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. The LP that they crafted — their first with legendary vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden — would go on to be regarded as a landmark LP for both the [...]

Another Grateful Dead Book? Why?

Published: October 16 2009ByBen Fong-Torres
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It’s not even that I’ve published another Grateful Dead book. While mine – The Grateful Dead Scrapbook – was being produced (in spring), I got an advance copy of Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead by Peter Conners. That makes, oh, about 100 books out on the band. Which begs the question: [...]

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