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Dennis McNally
Born
in Fort Meade, Florida, The United States
December 01, 1949
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Returning from the Writing Zone
Dear all: I’ve been working on a new book for the past few years, which will explain my silence. It’s about the deeper roots of the Haight Ashbury and the ‘60s counterculture, going back to the poets and abstract expressionist painters of the ‘40s, then all kinds of ‘50s culture including of course the Beats, and then the transition into “hippie.” It’s called “The Last Great Dream.” I’m maybe
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“In a display of intuitive good taste, the band vetoed Kelley/Mouse’s notion of putting a quotation, “In the land of the dark, the ship of the sun is drawn by the Grateful Dead,” across the top of the cover. Variously attributed to the Tibetan or Egyptian Book of the Dead, but seemingly a piece of Haight Street apocrypha, it had been floating around the neighborhood for a while.”
― A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
― A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
“I am not an artist in the independent sense, I’m part of dynamic situations, and that’s where I like it.”
― A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
― A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
“linear progression was distorted. So we would just drop the one, we would get lost, we would call it the pulse. We would go on the pulse, so all of a sudden the pulse would lead us to a place, and we were completely lost, we didn’t know where the original one was, so instead of struggling with the one, we would establish a new one, and that was the telepathy that me and Billy had. And they would catch on to our telepathic one, and they would latch on. When the third person went to it, it became legitimate. It would stay illegitimate for a certain amount of time, and we would be able to fly or float on the pulse, and there was no need to sound the one or recognize the one. Sometimes the one was known, and we’d let it go untouched. Other times we all pounced on it and sounded it and made it into a one.”
― A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
― A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
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