#NowReading - catching up on charles lighthouse's thoughtful #gratefuldead #zines, picked up at #SWPACA last week. sweet meditations on the contemporary dead scene & a narrative imagining of the night promoter #BillGraham got dosed at the fillmore west in 1968. https://thedeadletter.bigcartel.com/

getting deep into the dead's 1970s touring economics with @gratefulseconds at #SWPACA, looking forward to his book!

getting deep into the dead's 1970s touring economics with @gratefulseconds at #SWPACA, looking forward to his book!

at #SWPACA, rob collier on repetition in phil lesh's basslines, transcribing the first few bars of a dozen versions of "playing in the band" & creating composite versions from lesh's varied parts for different eras to show the gradual evolution.

3 presentations on the #gratefuldead & #metadata at #SWPACA, total catnip for me.

jeremy berg & janelle west on how #library systems don't handle the dead well.

cory edmondson on a close read of dick #latvala's notebooks, how his collection & thoughts evolved, pointing out how dick's notebook format resembled diver's notes.

scott deetz on the dead's pursuit of "just exactly perfect" audio technology & how that has faded in #streaming services' presentation of the dead's music.

rhoney stanley yesterday at the grateful dead scholars' caucus at #SWPACA in albuquerue: "[robert] hunter knew the difference between DMT & a nursery rhyme," on hunter's 1990s orfeo dialogues with terence mckenna & his channeling of DMT space in songwriting language. (rhoney, incidentally or not, was "tasked" with helping produce said DMT.)

always delighted when they actually print the title on my badge as requested. #SWPACA