Acknowledgments

Editors' Prefaces

David Dodd

Diana Spaulding

Introduction: Gathering the Sparks

Steve Silberman

I. ``GET PREPARED, THERE'S GONNA BE A PARTY TONIGHT!'': CARVING OUT A TERRITORY, 1967-1974

Excerpt from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

Excerpt from Morgan's Acid Test

William J. Craddock

Dead Like Live Thunder

Ralph J. Gleason

Jerry Garcia, the Guru

Ralph J. Gleason

The Day They Busted the Grateful Dead

Richard Brautigan

Primal Dead at the Fillmore East: February 1970

Steve Silberman

Purple Lights: Grateful Dead Dance Marathon at the Manhattan Center

George W. S. Trow

Grateful Dead I Have Known

Ed McClanahan

Linear Notes to Europe 72

Willy Legate

Full Circle with the Dead

Ralph J. Gleason

Now That We've Got a Moment to Stand...

Robert Hunter

Some Pretty Basic Tenets of Hypnocracy

Robert Hunter

State of the Changes: How the Dragon Urobouros (Giga Exponentia) Makes Us Go Round and Round

Alan Trist

Dead Heads Pay Their Dues

Robert Christgau

He Was a Friend of Mine

Robert Petersen

Robert Hunter, Dark Star

Robert Hunter

II. ``IF YOU GET CONFUSED, LISTEN TO THE MUSIC PLAY'': BACK FROM THE HIATUS, INTO THE EIGHTIES, 1976-1986

St. Stephen Revisited and Beyond

Richard Meltzer

Still Grateful After All These Years: In Which the Grateful Dead, Pinup Uglies of the Haight-Ashbury, Become the House Band of the Age of Certain Doom

Charlie Haas

Dead Reckoning and Hamburger Metaphysics

Lee Abbott

Dead Heads: A Strange Tale of Love, Devotion and Surrender

Blair Jackson

Meditations on the Grateful Dead

Dennis McNally

An Aged Deadhead

Milton Mayer

Robert Hunter: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience

Mary Eisenhart

Jerry Garcia and the Call of the Weird

Alice Kahn

III. ``WE WILL SURVIVE'': A TOP-TEN HIT AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS, 1987-1994

The Swirl According to Carp: A Meditation on the Grateful Dead

Jack Britton

Transformative Mysteries: A Primer on the Grateful Dead for Aficionados, Initiates and the Wholly Uninformed

Steve Silberman

A Tale of Two Tribes: A Gay Man's Adventure in the World of Deadheads

Edward Guthmann

Reporting Live from Deadland

David Gans

Good Use

Al Alvarez

This Darkness Got to Give: Some Thoughts on Problems in the Dead Scene

Blair Jackson

You Don't Seem to Hear Me When I Call

Paddy Ladd

Introduction to We Want Phil! An Interview, and In Phil We Trust: A Conversation

Blair Jackson

Excerpt from The Millennium Shows

Philip E. Baruth

IV. ``SEE HERE HOW EVERYTHING LEAD UP TO THIS DAY'': JERRY GARCIA'S DEATH AND THE END OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD, 1995-1996

American Beauty: The Grateful Dead's Burly, Beatific Alchemist

Hal Espen

Obituary: Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995

Mary Eisenhart

An Elegy for Jerry

Robert Hunter

American Beauty

Blair Jackson

The Grateful Dead: A Meditation on Music, Meaning, and Memory

Gary Burnett

The Only Song of God

Steve Silberman

Credits

Index of Song and Album Titles

Index