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Life You Ordered Has Arrived, The
, 266–268

Lion's Share, 152

“Little Red Rooster,” 75

Loading Zone, 68, 85

Log Cabin, 226

“Long Black Veil,” 25

Longshoreman's Hall, 66, 85, 123

Loren, Richard, 137–139, 140–141, 144, 152, 154, 155, 171, 172, 173, 177, 179–180, 181, 183, 186–187, 189, 191, 201, 202–203, 214, 215

Los Lobos, 225

Los Trancos Woods, Calif., 16

“Love Light,” 159

Lovin' Spoonful, 44, 66

Lucas, George, 237, 300

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 243

M

McIntire, Jon, 97–99, 100, 101, 102–103, 104, 114–115, 116–117, 118, 131, 138, 139, 141, 145, 146–147, 159, 160, 161, 165, 166, 171–173, 180, 204, 207, 210, 212, 213, 218, 219, 221, 263, 319–320, 341, 342–343

McKay, Donna Godchaux, 139, 145, 150–151, 166, 193–194

McNally, Dennis, 264–265, 266, 327, 347

Madison Square Garden, 253

Malloy, Matt, 291

“Man I Love, The,” 139

“Maple Leaf Rag,” 46

Marilyn (Rohan's girlfriend), 102, 103

Marin Civic Auditorium (Calif.), 247

Marsalis, Branford, 247

Matrix, 99, 138

“Mattie Groves,” 25

Matusiewicz, Wally, 8, 9, 12

Maugham, W. Somerset, 215

Meier, Barbara, 16–19, 21, 24, 26–27, 266–268, 280, 281–289, 290, 296, 337, 340

Meier, Esme, 284

Menlo-Atherton High School (Calif.), 12, 61

Menlo Oaks School (Calif.), 10

Menlo Park, Calif., 8

Merry Pranksters, 75, 83, 92

MESBIC (Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Company), 144

“Message to Garcia” (Kesey), 343–344

Michaels, Lome, 191

Milgrim, Hale, 142

Millikin, Chesley, 171, 172, 291–292, 311, 321, 322

Mill Valley Film Festival, 212

Mingus, Charlie, 77

“Money,” 63

Monk, Thelonious, 77

Monroe, Bill, 36, 40, 43, 44, 45

Monterey Jazz Festival, 77

Morgan, Dana, 50, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66

Morrison, Jim, 82

Moses and Aaron
(Schoenberg), 98

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug

Champions, 46, 47, 48, 49, 61, 64

MTV, 236, 242

Muir Beach Acid Test, 57, 74

Murray, Bill, 214–215

Muscle Shoals, Ala., 140

Mydland, Brent, 194, 256, 257, 260

“My Funny Valentine,” 139

N

Naropa Institute, 266

Nassau Coliseum, 309

Nelson, David, 16, 24, 25, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36–37, 39, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50–51, 55–56, 57, 59–60, 63–64, 67–68, 121, 123, 124, 128, 207, 215, 218, 219, 221, 222, 226, 243, 244

New Delhi River Band, 121

New George's, 225

New Lost City Ramblers, 41, 121

New Riders of the Purple Sage, 121, 123–124, 126, 171, 207, 245

New River Ranch, 43

Nixon, Richard, 352

Noblesville, Ind., 311

“Nola,” 34, 49

O

Oakland Auditorium (Calif.), 198

Oakland Coliseum (Calif.), 262

O'Keefe Center, 104

Olatunji, 349

Old and In the Way, 152–158, 175, 245

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(Kesey), 76

Ono, Yoko, 232

On the Road
(Kerouac), 17, 43

Original Blessing
(Fox), 296

Ovitz, Michael, 214

Oxford Companion to Classical Music
, 104

P

Palo Alto High School (Calif.), 28, 66

Palo Alto Peace Center (Calif.), 28

“Panama Red,” 152, 340

Parish, Steve, 124, 134, 140, 166, 185, 202, 204, 221, 222, 234, 240, 245, 262, 264, 265, 287, 296, 299, 302, 314, 321, 323, 331, 334–335

Parker, Bonnie, 144

Parker, Dave, 46, 67

Patchen, Kenneth, 19

Peanuts
, 48

Peraza, Armando, 348

Petersen, Bobby, 20

Phantom of the Opera
(Webber), 243

Pigpen (Ron McKernan), 45, 48, 67, 68, 74–75, 76, 79, 87, 93, 97–98, 99, 100, 102, 112, 118, 124, 127, 140, 159, 160, 256, 257, 331

death of, 161

Popick, Harry, 124, 304

Pound, Ezra, 352

Presley, Elvis, 140, 352

Pulp Fiction
, 304

Q

Quicksilver Messenger Service, 97, 99

R

Radio City Music Hall, 196

Rain Man
, 238

Rakow, Ron, 77–79, 96–97, 101, 104–105, 110, 111, 134, 141, 142–143, 149, 173, 177–178, 180

Ramrod, 116, 221

Rank, Otto, 333

Razor's Edge, The
(Maugham), 215

Redding, Otis, 90

Redwood City Symphony, 285

Reed, Jimmy, 50

Resnikoff, Charles, 267

Rex Foundation, 248, 297, 311–312, 323

Rifkin, Danny, 74, 77, 85, 86, 91, 92, 141

“Ripple,” 122

Riverport Amphitheater, 313

Rockefeller Center, 196

Rohan, Brian, 102

Rolling Stone
, 137, 350

Rolling Stones, 62, 67, 68, 77, 117, 118, 253

Rolling Thunder, 179

“Roly-Poly,” 63

Romney, Hugh, 216

Romney, Jahanarah, 216

Rooftop Singers, 33

Roshi, Suzuki, 27

Rothman, Sandy, 37, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 56, 226, 232, 236–237, 238, 243, 244, 245, 325, 332, 338

Round Records, 141, 144, 145, 175

Rowan, Chris, 134, 136

Rowan, Lorin, 134, 136

Rowan, Peter, 43, 127, 134, 136, 137, 152–153, 154–156, 157–158, 340

Rowan Brothers, 137–138

Rundgren, Todd, 257

S

Sadat, Anwar el-, 187

Sage, Nora, 207, 208, 222, 269, 270

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 330

San Anselmo, Calif., 226

Sandperl, Ira, 24, 27

San Francisco Art Institute, 18

San Francisco Chronicle
, 103

San Francisco General Hospital, 130

San Rafael, Calif., 225, 231, 236, 246, 269

Santana, Carlos, 225

Saturday Night Live
, 191–192, 194, 214

Saunders, Merl, 138–139, 140, 141, 223, 224–225, 231, 254

Schoenberg, Arnold, 98

Schultz, Charles, 48

Scorsese, Martin, 238

Scully, Dicken, 208

Scully, Nicki, 115, 116, 195, 196, 207, 208, 209, 210, 222–223, 333, 338

Scully, Rock, 74–77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89–90, 91, 93, 94–95, 96, 102, 103, 112, 141, 159, 161, 164, 172, 195, 196, 197, 198, 201, 202, 204, 206–207, 208–211, 222, 240, 331

Scully, Sage, 198, 203–204, 238, 331, 333

Sears, Cameron, 278, 291, 347, 348

Sea Train, 136

Seeger, Mike, 41

Seeger, Pete, 25

Seratone, Frank, 20, 21

Serenity Knolls, 322, 323, 324, 352

Sesame Street
, 117, 174

“Shalom Aleichem,” 334

Sherwood, Don, 143

Shimer College, 192

Shoreline Amphitheater, 267

Shrieve, Michael, 348

Shubb, Rick, 56, 67

Simon, Joe, 140

Sirens of Titan
(Vonnegut), 214

“Sitting on Top of the World,” 25

Skaggs, Ricky, 157–158

Skylight Art Supply, 16

Skywalker Ranch, 237

Sledge, Percy, 140

Slick, Grace, 100

Smith, Joe, 94, 127, 128, 134–135, 149

So Far
, 234, 247

Soldier Field, 313

Sometimes a Great Notion
(Kesey), 76

Speegle, Paul, 21, 22–23, 38

“Spike Driver Blues,” 62

Springsteen, Bruce, 352

Sprung, Roger, 34

Stanford Hospital, 41

Stanford University, 19, 20, 27

Stanley, Owsley, 74, 75, 77, 80–82, 83, 85, 96, 103, 111, 112, 115–116, 117, 118, 123, 124, 125, 128, 138, 146, 153, 160–161, 162, 165, 182, 184, 185, 210, 270, 324–325, 338, 361

Stanley Brothers, 37, 43

Steal Your Face
, 179

“Stella Blue,” 338

Stephens, Sue, 188, 215, 216, 220, 222, 225, 248, 251, 264, 270, 309–310, 322–323, 324, 327

Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 134

“Stomp That Egg,” 70

Strachwitz, Chris, 36

“Sugaree,” 136

“Sugar Magnolia,” 194

Summers, Bill,
see
Kreutzmann, Bill

Sunset Park, 43

Surrealistic Pillow
, 99, 100

“Suspicious Minds,” 140

Swan Silvertones, 134

Swanson, Sue, 51, 57, 61, 64–65, 66, 67, 85, 92, 94, 97, 100, 105, 163, 166–167, 204, 327–328, 331, 332, 334, 337, 341

T

Tamal Indians, 89

Tangent, 33, 48–49, 71

Tangerine (Scully's girlfriend), 91–92, 103

Tarantino, Quentin, 304

Ten Speed Press/Celestial Arts, 271–272

Tex, Joe, 140

Thomas, Dylan, 18

Thomas Aquinas, 340

Thompson, Bill, 99, 110, 111

Thompson, Eric, 34

“Thrill Is Gone, The,” 261

“Throwing Stones,” 247

Tibetan Book of the Dead
, 57

Time
, 29

“Today,” 100

“Tom Dooley,” 40

“Touch of Grey,” 215, 235

Townshend, Pete, 185–186, 201, 253

Trist, Alan, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20–21, 22–23, 143, 171, 181, 187, 189, 195–196, 323–324, 329–330, 335, 345,

Trooper's Hall, 81

Trungpa Rinpoche, Chogyam, 266, 267, 287

Tubes, 257

U

“Uncle John's Band,” 172

Underground, 120

United Artists Records, 176, 177, 178, 179

Universal Pictures, 214

V

Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 212

“Viola Lee Blues,” 79

Vonnegut, Kurt, 214

W

Wade, Sue, 16

Wake of the Flood
, 175–177

Walker, Michael, 345–346

“Walk Right In,” 33

Warfield Theatre, 196, 240, 300, 302–303, 336

Warlocks, 62, 63, 64, 71, 72, 104

Warner Brothers Records, 134, 135, 136, 142, 144, 178

Watson, Doc, 36

Watts Acid Test, 79, 84

Wavy Gravy, 196–197, 343, 349

Weidenheimer, Troy, 36

Weir, Bob, 48, 57, 61, 62, 66, 73, 100, 102, 103, 112, 114, 115, 159–160, 162, 165, 175, 185, 208, 232, 241, 247, 252, 253, 257, 306, 313, 334

Weir, Wendy, 61

Wells, Kitty, 43

Welnick, Vince, 257, 313

“West L.A. Fadeaway,” 236

“When a Man Loves a Woman,” 140

White, Clarence, 36,
37
, 42

White, Joshua, 124, 125, 127

Who, 185–186, 201, 253

Wild One, The
, 10–11

Wild wood Boys, 37, 121, 222

“Wildwood Flower,” 41

Winterland, 77, 163, 173, 193, 198

Wood, Suzy, 15, 26, 29, 30, 32, 33, 39, 48, 57, 87–88, 105

Woodstock Festival, 115–117

Workingman's Dead
, 121

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