This is an excerpt from chapter 4 of This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson…
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I’ve been off the road since March of 2020. I’ve played maybe a dozen gigs outside the house (and all outdoors) since that time. I…
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Interview with Betty Cantor-Jackson 3/18/10 Can we talk about Cats Under The Stars? It’s such a nice record I love that record. I built the…
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Early in my journalism career, I figured out that interviewing two musicians at a time can get you some interesting stuff that you don’t get…
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Director Len Dell’Amico talks about making the video for “Throwing Stones” in 1987. It was the third video from In the Dark, after “Touch…
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I have interviewed a lot of Dead-loving musicians for a long-term project about Grateful Dead music. This is drummer/vocalist Peter Lavezzoli, longtime member of Florida’s…
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It was always easy to get Bill Graham to talk about the Grateful Dead! While I was working (with Peter Simon) on my first book,…
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I interviewed keyboardist Brent Mydland for the first time on April 10, 1981, at the Grateful Dead office. He had been in the band for…
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From an interview with Bob Weir and monitor mixer Harry Popick. July 18, 1984, a few stories about the Grateful Dead in Egypt. HP: I…
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Another short interview from my work on liner notes for the Europe ’72 boxed set. This was a phone conversation that took place on March…
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