Volume 6, 2023/2024

282 pages, 6 x 9 in.

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Editor’s Column
The Sound of Fragile Thunder (PDF)
Nicholas G. Meriwether

Essays
To Hell and Back Again: “Saint Stephen” and Orpheus (PDF)
Nicholas D. Cross

Jerry Garcia, Filmmaker: The Lost Project of The Sirens of Titan (PDF)
Dennis Rothermel

“Please Don’t Dominate the Rap, Jack”: Heterarchy and the Grateful Dead (PDF)
Dougald O’Reilly

Life Beyond the Dead: Leadership, Branding, and the Business Legacy of the Post-Garcia Grateful Dead (PDF)
Barry Barnes

“Caught On A Limb”: Authorial Intention, “He’s Gone,” and the Music of the Grateful Dead (PDF)
B. Steve Csaki

Reconstructing the Warlocks: The Top 40 Roots of the Early Grateful Dead (PDF)
Mike Dolgushkin

“All A Seer Can Own”: Lead Sheets, Ice Nine, and the Textual Challenges of the Grateful Dead (PDF)
Nicholas G. Meriwether

Special Section
Hailing Osiris: The Afterlife of the Grateful Dead’s Egypt Adventure (PDF)

Translating the Dead: The Egypt Concert Program (pdf not available)

Beyond Category: The Grateful Dead in Egypt (PDF)
Alan Trist

Charming Cheops: Richard Loren on Taking the Grateful Dead to Egypt (PDF)
David Gans

“An Old Fantasy of Ours”: Jerry Garcia on Egypt (PDF)
Ray White

Great Mysteries: Talking About Egypt with Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, and Dan Healy (PDF)
Tony Berardini

The Giza Acid Test: The Grateful Dead at the Great Pyramid (PDF)
Don Defenderfer

Sailing the Ship of the Sun: Listening to Egypt, Again (PDF)
Michael Parrish

Reviews
Grateful Dead, Pacific Northwest ’73–’74: The Complete Recordings (PDF)
Rick Monture

Dead & Company, San Francisco, July 14–16, 2016 (PDF)
Granville Ganter

Mordechai Rubinstein, Dead Style (PDF)
Annabelle Walsh

Mark A. Rodriguez, After All is Said and Done: Taping the Grateful Dead, 1965–1995 (PDF)
Scott Carlson

Robert Cooperman, Youth’s Joyful Noise (PDF)
Andrew Smith

Last Words
For the Record (pdf not available)
Peter Monk