Dark Star (53 page)

Jorma Kaukonen
—A founding member of the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, he continues to write, perform, and record acoustic blues.

Ken Kesey
(1989)—The noted author who was also once the chief Merry Prankster, he continues to live in Oregon.

Sat Santokh Singh Khalsa
—As Bert Kanegson, he was a manager of the Grateful Dead. A leader in the Sikh community, he is now CEO of Rainforest Products, a socially responsible company working to preserve the rain forest.

Justin Kreutzmann
—The son of Bill Kreutzmann, the Grateful Dead's first drummer, he works as a video director.

Stacy Kreutzmann
—Justin's older sister, she works as a print broker, video producer, and publisher in northern California.

Cassidy Law
—The daughter of Eileen Law and namesake of the Weir-Barlow song, “Cassidy,” she did tour ticketing for the Grateful Dead. She continues to work for the band handling public relations.

Eileen Law
—The former voice of the Grateful Dead hotline, she acts as liaison between the Deadheads and the Grateful Dead.

Celeste Lear
—A college student and aspiring professional musician, she is a Deadhead.

Marshall Leicester
—He is a professor of English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Richard Loren
—The former manager of the Grateful Dead, Old and In the Way, and the Merl Saunders-Jerry Garcia Band, he lives in San Francisco and is developing several independent film and video projects.

Jon Mcintire
—The former manager of the Grateful Dead, he now lives in Los Angeles where he is involved in screenwriting, acting, producing, and directing.

Donna Godchaux Mckay
—Having rediscovered her Christian roots, the only woman ever to be part of the Grateful Dead continues to make music while living in Alabama.

Barbara (Brigid) Meier
—A poet, painter, and Buddhist, she lives in New Mexico where she has assembled a book of recollections about Jerry Garcia entitled
Gaspar's Parrot
.

Chesley Millikin
—The former manager of the Grateful Dead and the first general manager of Epic Records in Europe, he now lives in northern California.

David Nelson
—A founding member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, he continues to perform with his own group, the David Nelson Band.

Harry Popick
—A longtime soundman for the Grateful Dead, he is now involved in recording and production in Marin County.

Ron Rakow
—The former president of both Grateful Dead and Round Records, he is a self-described “visionary business cat who is now a mundane venture capitalist with a great ocean view.”

Sandy Rothman
—He continues to play bluegrass music while living in Berkeley, California.

Peter Rowan
—He continues to write, perform, and record as a solo artist and the leader of his own band.

Merl Saunders
—He continues to write, perform, and record with the Merl Saunders Band.

Nicki Scully
—Sage's mother, she is an author and teacher of metaphysics, shamanism, and healing who lives in Oregon.

Rock Scully
—The former manager of the Grateful Dead, he is the author of
Living with the Dead
.

Sage Scully
—Rock's daughter, she lives and works in Bend, Oregon.

Grace Slick
(1988)—She is the former lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane and the Jefferson Starship.

Joe Smith
(1988)—A noted raconteur and author, he ran both Warner Brothers and Capitol Records.

Owsley Stanley
(1989/1995)—Also known as Bear, he is the street chemist who first synthesized LSD in very pure form for mass consumption. He now lives in Australia.

Sue Stephens
—For twenty-two years, she worked as Jerry Garcia's personal assistant, office manager, and chief financial officer. She is now the secretary for his estate.

Sue Swanson
—Called “my oldest fan” by Jerry Garcia, she has spent most of her adult life living with and working for the Grateful Dead.

Bill Thompson
(1988)—He is the former manager of the Jefferson Airplane and the Jefferson Starship.

Pete Townshend
(1988)—He is the former lead guitarist of the Who.

Alan Trist
—He is the director of Ice Nine, the Grateful Dead's music publishing company, and President of Hulogosi Communications, a cooperative book publishing company.

Michael Walker
—A college student, he is a Deadhead.

Wavy Gravy
—The self-proclaimed “psychedelic relic,” he continues to do what he has always done while also running a camp for children in northern California in the summer.

Bob Weir
(1988)—The former rhythm guitarist for the Grateful Dead, he continues to write, record, and perform his own music.

Joshua White
(1988/1995)—The creator and namesake of the Joshua Light Show, he now works as a television producer/director in New York City.

Suzy Wood
—Formerly married to Marshall Leicester, she is a reentry student who recently graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in anthropology.

Elanna Wynella
—For the past twenty-four years, she has been John “Marmaduke” Dawson's companion.

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Albin, Peter, 24–25, 26, 32, 34–35, 37, 46, 48, 50, 64, 68

Albin, Rodney, 24–25

Altamont Festival, 115, 117–119

“Amazing Grace,” 334

Ambassador Gallery, 270

American Beauty
, 115, 122, 131

American Federation of Musicians, 135

Anger, Kenneth, 70, 71

Anonymous Artists of America, 93

Apocalypse Now
, 238

Arhoolie Records, 36

Arista Records, 234–235, 247

Ashcroft, Sue, 61

Ashley, Clarence, 36

“At the Hop,” 61

“Attics of My Life,” 121

Avalon Ballroom, 87, 94, 105

“Awakening Osiris” (Ellis), 338

Babbs, Ken, 73

Baez, Joan, 27, 28–29

Baker, Dr. Randy, 261, 275, 276–278, 279–280, 283, 287, 288, 291, 299–300, 301, 304, 306–307, 309, 319, 320, 321–322, 325–326

Balboa High School (Calif.), 7, 8, 12, 14, 63

Balin, Marty, 99

Barger, Sonny, 123, 328

Barlow, John Perry, 173, 204, 248, 252, 256, 257, 263, 264, 306, 328–329, 330, 339, 340, 341–342, 349

Barsotti, Bob, 193, 243, 244, 245, 247–248, 249, 250, 262, 264, 265–266, 273, 299, 300, 302, 304–305, 310, 311, 314, 327, 333, 336, 343, 347–349

Barsotti, Peter, 173, 180–181

Bean Blossom, Ind., 44, 45

Beatles, 50, 61, 62, 70, 74

Berkeley, Calif., 153, 195

Berry, Chuck, 100

Betty Ford Clinic, 319–322

Big Beat Club, 75

Big Brother and the Holding Company, 90, 99

Black Mountain Boys, 37

“Blind Prophet, The,” 22

Bloomfield, Michael, 138

Blues Brothers, The, 193

Blues from the Rainforest
, 254

Boar's Head, 25, 28, 48

Brand, Stewart, 71, 75

Brandelius, Jerilyn Lee, 150, 151, 165–166, 185–186, 194, 196–197

Brando, Marlon, 10

Brautigan, Richard, 103

Brickell, Edie, 247, 248

Brown, Steve, 142–143, 145, 146, 156, 165, 167, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 202, 203, 204

Brown County Jamboree, 44

Browning, Page, 59, 70–71

Buber, Martin, 76

Burke, Solomon, 140

Burrell, Kenny, 139

Caen, Herb, 193

Cage, John, 18,
73
, 232

California School of Fine Arts, 13

“Candyman,” 121

Cantor's Deli, 81, 82–83

Captain Beefheart, 82

Carlmont High School (Calif.), 24

Casady, Jack, 97

“Casey Jones,” 192

Cassady, Neal, 59–60, 72, 75, 100

Castaneda, Carlos, 216

Castel, Luria, 66

Charles, Ray, 215

Chateau, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 30, 59, 64

Cherry Garcia ice cream, 251

Chicago, Ill., 313

Choong, Yen-wei, 274–276, 277, 300–301, 302, 307, 338–339

Cippolina, Gino, 134

Clements, Vassar, 152–153, 155

Clifford, Tillie, 3, 7, 38, 47, 49

Clinton, Bill, 291, 329

Coach House restaurant, 127

Coe, Campbell, 37

Coffee Cantata, 33

Coffee Gallery, 33

College of San Mateo Folk Music Festival, 34–35

Columbia Records, 136

Constanten, Tom, 20, 25, 63, 126

Coppola, Francis Ford, 175, 238

Corvallis High School (Ore.), 156

Crosby, David, 304–305

“Cumberland Blues,” 121

Cutler, John, 221, 323

Cutler, Sam, 138, 139

Dana Morgan's Music, 40, 101

“Dark Star,” 125–126, 193, 353

Dave (chauffeur), 275

Davis, Clive, 126–127, 136, 146, 234–235

Davis, Miles, 146, 329

Davis, Tom, 191–192, 214, 215

Dawson, John “Marmaduke,” 33, 60, 64, 65, 67, 115, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124–125, 126–129, 162, 163, 183, 184, 186, 264, 271

“Day They Busted the Grateful Dead, The” (Brautigan), 103

Deadheads, 43, 142, 156, 173, 176, 232, 244, 247, 257, 296, 311, 320, 345, 346

concept of, 124

Deer Creek Amphitheater, 311–313

Dell'Amico, Len, 194, 213, 215, 220, 223–224, 225–226, 231, 234, 236, 239–240, 247, 249–250, 319, 323

Denver, Colo., 268, 280

DiBiase, Christopher, 273

DiBiase, Gloria, 246, 260, 271, 273, 277, 282, 284, 293–294, 296, 297, 298, 300, 302, 306, 308, 311, 321, 327, 332, 337

DiBiase, Vince, 247, 255, 260, 265, 269–270, 271–272, 274, 275, 276, 278, 282, 285, 290, 292–293, 294, 297, 298, 299, 301, 302, 305–308, 312, 320, 327, 341

Discount Records, 142

Dominican College, 246

Domino, Fats, 50, 215

Donahue, Tom, 94

Doors, The, 76

Doors of Perception
(Huxley), 55

“Do You Believe in Magic?,” 63

“Do You Wanna Dance?,” 36, 63

Dracula
, 238

Dragonslayer
, 249

Dylan, Bob, 36, 61, 62, 63, 70, 85, 136, 215, 236, 239–241, 310, 334, 338

Earth Opera, 122, 136

Egyptian Book of the Dead
, 104

Electric Circus, 127

“Elegy for Jerry, An” (Hunter), 335

“El Gran Coyote” (Meier), 267–268

Ellis, Normandi, 338

“Evening with the Grateful Dead, An,” 124

“Everybody Loves Saturday Night,” 25

Family Dog, 74, 77, 87

Fantasy Records, 138

“Fennario,” 25

Fillmore Auditorium, 68, 74, 77, 78, 87, 111

Fillmore East, 124, 125

Finnegans Wake
(Joyce), 18

First National Bank of Boston, 175, 176–177

Flatt and Scruggs, 37, 40

Flowers, Annette, 225

Fogerty, John, 76, 262

Folklore Center, 62

Folsom Prison, 123

Fort Ord (Calif.), 14, 15

Foster, Paul, 323

Fox, Matthew, 296, 297–298, 329, 330, 331, 333, 336, 337, 342

Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, 121

Freeman, Bobby 36, 63

Freiberg, David, 89, 100

“Freight Train,” 41

“Friend of the Dead,” 122

“Friend of the Devil,” 121–122