The Grateful Dead reader

Part 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. 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 --

Liner notes to Europe / 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 --

Part 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 --

Part III. "We will survive" : a top ten hit and all that follows, 1987-1994 --

The swirl acccording 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 Guthman --

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 --

Part IV. "See here, how everything led 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.