John Perry Barlow.....

Grateful Dead lyricist, psychedelic ranger and internet warrior...
http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2018/02/rip-john-perry-barlow.html

The Music Never Stopped

Cornell '77 is a book about the Grateful Dead by a fan, but it is not just for fans.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/21/the-music-never-stopped/

here's a link to a recording of the show  (may go dead after official CD is released)

https://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.111493.mtx.seamons.sbeok.flac16

Altamont Rock Concert--December 6, 1969

I'll let Rolling Stone tell the story in one of their first (and best) pieces of reportage not written by Hunter S. Thompson...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121

Letting it Bleed: Joel Selvin Takes on Altamont

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/letting-it-bleed-2/

Reclaiming the Dead--- A Modern US Socialist Looks at the Grateful Dead

One of the better analyses of the Dead's meaning that I've read in quite a while...
http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/deadrec

Elvis and Panama Red

Remember the death of Elvis.....

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/17/panama-red-and-elvis/

Elvis is Everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NWXJ8iPQw

Midsummer Rock

On July 28, 1973, The Band, Allman Brothers, and the Grateful Dead played a mammoth show at Watkins Glen, NY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqlADKgCS_Y

In late July 1970, a rock fest was supposed to happen, but the authorities cancelled it. People showed up anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xeK-k9BRtQ

then there was this--I made it to one day....

Grateful Dead Live in 1971

In 1971, the Grateful Dead played a Catholic Youth Center in Scranton, PA...

https://archive.org/details/gd71-04-13.sbd.unknown.32015.sbeok.flacf

Blast From the Past--1969

This piece first appeared in the now defunct newspaper edited by Shay Totten--the Vermont Times....it was reprinted in Counterpunch a few years later...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/13/a-blast-from-the-past/

The Dead Show That Closes Out My Book

I went searching for a recording of the January 198o Kampuchean Refugees Benefit Show that I close out Daydream Sunset with.  While searching, I found this description of the show.  I have a few differences with the author, but it's a good read.  So is the rest of the site--Lost Live Dead....Check it out.
http://lostlivedead.blogspot.com/2014/12/january-13-1980-oakland-coliseum-arena.html

If you want to hear the Dead's portion of the show, here is a link to a fairly decent recording

https://archive.org/details/gd1980-01-13.sbd.miller.106517.flac16

Happy New Year!

From the Mayday Bookstore Blog

http://maydaybookstore.blogspot.com/2015/12/bombs-or-vermont.html

Review of Daydream Sunset by Fred Mills, editor of Blurt Magazine ( a fine music journal)

http://blurtonline.com/feature/daydream-sunset-the-60s-counterculture-in-the-70s/

Revolution in the Air: the 1960s Become the 1970s....

A companion video to Daydream Sunset and The Way the Wind Blew....

The Playlist

http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2015/08/if-daydream-sunset60s-counterculture-in.html