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…
Continue readingI’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…
Continue readingInterview 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…
Continue readingEarly 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…
Continue readingDirector Len Dell’Amico talks about making the video for “Throwing Stones” in 1987. It was the third video from In the Dark, after “Touch…
Continue readingI 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…
Continue readingIt was always easy to get Bill Graham to talk about the Grateful Dead! While I was working (with Peter Simon) on my first book,…
Continue readingI interviewed keyboardist Brent Mydland for the first time on April 10, 1981, at the Grateful Dead office. He had been in the band for…
Continue readingFrom an interview with Bob Weir and monitor mixer Harry Popick. July 18, 1984, a few stories about the Grateful Dead in Egypt. HP: I…
Continue readingAnother 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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