I was born in 1978 and grew up in Palo Alto, in the Bay Area, surrounded by Grateful Dead history, really. The cool one was…
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(Ken, lead guitarist, via email): I met the Grateful Dead in 1973, when I was 17 years old. At that time, I decided to play…
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My first musical memory was probably Dion’s “Runaround Sue,” and the Beatles. Dion lives down here and I got the opportunity to play with him…
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My parents like to say I was singing before I was talking, which I can imagine. I never had any lessons, very little instruction and…
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I went to an AA meeting in Hampton in 1984 and I came up to Don and introduced myself and that’s—I had just gotten sober…
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One of the special things about Dead Head culture is inclusiveness. One of the inclusions is that while lots of Dead Heads party—as in consume psychoactive…
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My guitar playing began—well, it’s kind of a cliché now, but I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. And even though I was quite young—I…
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I became a Deadhead it was Christmas of ’72, ’73. I was a Duane Allman fan before that, right after Duane had died. My stepbrother…
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