The Grateful Thread

[Ian Scuffling]

These are exactly the sort of books I'm looking for thanks!

Is that folder just all the studio albums with a few shows mixed in?

 

[WashYourHands]

Mostly live material, soundboards from Betty Cantor-Jackson 68-77, with 1 or 2 80’s bits

Have at it

 

[WashYourHands]

M Saunders = 🔥

 

[william_kent]

Owsley and Me: My LSD Family - Rhoney Gissen Stanley

the real chemist tells of her experiences being treated like shit by the Dead

 

[WashYourHands]

The Scully book is irritating but no other text charts the acceleration of descent into peak drug nadir

 

[WashYourHands]

1981:

We use the airlines to ship dope. I have somebody run it out to the airport in an envelope, put it on a plane, and it gets there like clockwork until some weird hippie at TWA recognizes Jerry's name on the package and takes it. The first time it happens, we're in Philadelphia. I'm jonesing in the Philadelphia Arport waiting for the shit to arrive and it never shows up. I know it got onto the plane, but somewhere along the line somebody stole it. This little glitch leads to a day and a half of the shakes. Garcia is too junk sick to perform the following night. Prescriptions from the hotel doctor help, but we use up all the pills the first night to get rid of the shakes.

In Washington, a desperate Garcia decides to do a radio interview in the middle of the night and "put the code out." Garcia's nodding into the mike during the interview. On air he asks fans — in code — to bring their stashes down to the station and he will sign albums for them. He says, "Uh, anybody down with Garcia out there tonight? You wanna come down to the station? I'll come down from up here and sign autographs, but bring me some down." Thirty kids show up at the station reception with grass, 'ludes, uppers. Uh oh, the wrong drugs! Oh God, now he wants to get more specific on the air, spell out what precisely he needs. We send kids out to get downers and tranks to get us through the night (Scully 1996, 314).