https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adwn9z8a3U4
The Deadcast explores the Grateful Dead’s long-term cosmic entanglement with the California technology world & the architecture of the internet itself, featuring biomusic pioneer Ned Lagin, Dead Heads at the Stanford AI Lab & Apple, sonic heroes from Alembic & Meyer Sound, & more. Guests: Ned Lagin, Ron Wickersham, Susan Wickersham, Daniel Kottke, John Meyer, Helen Meyer, Paul Martin, Andy Moorer, Steve Silberman, Erik Davis, John Markoff
Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: Long Strange Tech, Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERPs5YU11EQ
The Deadcast concludes its dive into the Grateful Dead’s entanglement with technology, exploring Jerry Garcia’s digital graphics obsession, how Dead Head online communities helped shape the emergent internet, lyricist John Perry Barlow’s manifestoes, & more. Guests: Paul Martin, Mary Eisenhart, David Gans, Steve Silberman, Bob Bralove, Dan English, Doug Oade, Christian Crumlish, Charlie Miller, John Markoff, Erik Davis, Michael Calore
https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bonus-nedcast-ned-lagin
A surprising and wide-ranging conversation with Ned Lagin, the pioneering jazz-trained electronic composer whose friendship with the Grateful Dead began when the band crowded into his M.I.T. dorm room to jam and would encompass contributions to American Beauty and Wake of the Flood, nearly 20 onstage appearances with the band between 1970 and 1975, and Lagin’s own Seastones project, released by Jerry Garcia’s Round Records, featuring contributions by Garcia, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, David Crosby, Grace Slick, and more.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded in July of 1990 in response to a basic threat to speech and privacy.
https://www.eff.org/about/history
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
by John Perry Barlow
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
READ MORE at:
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independencGrateful Dead... My Story... American History... and Original Deadhead ART... Comic Tales & Poetry...
My Sugar Cube Painting...
like the cover of
"The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test"
by Tom Wolfe.
~~~~~~~~~~my Gr8ful story~~~~~~~~~
I first noticed the Grateful Dead in 1968 in English class at junior high school. Our teacher had put up posters on the wall of the classroom and we wrote essays about them. He was attempting to stimulate creative WRITING but more importantly, creative THINKING.
One was an American flag made out of swastikas and another was a solarized/negative photo of 5 hairy men standing in front of "LITTLE BOXES" type suburban tract homes.
Our English teacher stopped working for the school system that year and has never been heard of since. That has happened often to people that go to see the Dead... They change their lifestyle and start associating with a different set of people...
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-deadhead-art-and-mystory.html
1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...
The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...
The conformism of the 1950's was blown away when LSD became widely available. Owsley made the chemical and made it available at Acid Tests with Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He also gave it to the Beatles for their Magical Mystery Tour. The spirit lives on in a yearly camping trip called The Rainbow Gathering. It's like Woodstock but the performers are not paid and I'm in the Band.
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/50th-anniversary-of-summer-of-love.html
American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.
Thunder Machine:
Their (with Joe Lysowski) best-known collaboration was a large “Thunder Machine”—big enough to enter, and covered in swirling psychedelic color—which produced a cacophony of tone and echo from the pounding, drumming, mumbling and shouting of those within and without. It was a favorite at the San Francisco Trips Festival and occasionally at Ken Kesey's Acid Trips—popular enough to require repeated repainting and re-welding:
Ken Kesey and the Thunder Machine
I have heard many people inquire lately about Kesey's THUNDER MACHINE > Here are some close ups, including a rare shot of the inside! I believe that Zane made mention that it was a "remake of the original" but I very well might have misinterpreted? I must thank Zane for graciously having us all over to the "art barn." posted by Fred Schrott
Drone Lightshow at the Dead and Company Concerts.
Amazing ART!
I stopped Going in 2015 but I'm glad there are concerts for
Young People to Enjoy...
LINK to My Experience at Levi Stadium Santa Clara.
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/grateful-dead-rainmakers-santa-clara-6.html
The Grateful Dead Farewell Concert - Santa Clara 6-27 and
6-28 2015 - Photos and MyStory - A Rainbow Appeared over
the Concert... Many Felt It Was Jerry Garcia
Visiting from BEYOND...
Music so good it changes the weather. On 6/27 there was a
Rainbow over Levi Stadium and then it Rained. Just a very
light sprinkle, but we all felt it.
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