radiation treatments
radio
radio operator’s license
raid, of Green Factory
Rakow, Ron
reading disability
Reasons, George
rebellion
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
recording methods
recordings
analog tapes
of Grateful Dead
of Hendrix
list of all
release of
selected by Lesh
selected discography
Red Dog Saloon
Red Rocks
Redding, Otis
Reed, Jimmy
Reed, Stanley Forman (godfather)
Reese, Callie Mullen (stepmother)
reputation
RFK Stadium
Rhythm Devils
Richards, Keith
Rifkin, Danny
Robbins, Marty
“Robin Goodfellow” bank account
rock ‘n’ roll sound
Rocket Engine Test Facility
Rocketdyne
Rogers, Buck
rolling papers
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones
romance
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Round Records
Rowan, Peter
royalties
Rumsey, Charles
Ruppenthal, Sara
safe-deposit-box
Saint Lawrence Seaway
sales tactics
San Francisco
Grateful Dead return to
Haight-Ashbury district
mansion of Grateful Dead
San Francisco Chronicle
Sandoz pharmaceutical company
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Schiller, Lawrence
Schneider, Stephen
School of Engineering at the University of Virginia
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Scientific American
Screech (owl)
Scully, Rock
education of
manager position for Grateful Dead pitched to
smoking DMT with
Scully, Tim
secondhand smoke
Selvin, Joel
Sender, Ramon
Sennheiser microphones
sentencing
Seva Foundation
sex life
Shankar, Ravi
Sherman, Frederick C.
Slick, Grace
Small Business Administration
Smith, Joe
Smokestack El Ropo (pseudonym)
smoking
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead (Browne)
Soaper, Susan
society, LSD and problems of
Soldier Field
Sometimes a Great Nation
sonic journals
sound checks
Sound City Acid Test
sound system. See also Wall of Sound
Spectrum
Spires, Will
Springer’s Inn
Springfield Civic Center Arena
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (Government Hospital for the Insane)
Stanley, Augustus Owsley (grandfather)
career of
death of
election of
at International Joint Commission
pro-liquor position of
women’s suffrage and
Stanley, Augustus Owsley, III. See specific topics
Stanley, Augustus Owsley, Jr. (father)
alcoholism of
campaign for Senate
at Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
death of
divorce of
education of
election of
father of
marriage of
Navy service of
at Officer Candidate School
at Reconstruction Finance Corporation
relationship with
salary of
second marriage of
Stanley, Lella (Lella Lane Ray) (mother)
Stanley, Nuddicut Owsley
Stanley, William
Stanley Bill
Stanley Theater
Starfinder (son)
education of
illness of
naming of
stash
Steal Your Face
Steal Your Face logo
Steely Dan
“Stella Blue”
stem- cell treatment
stereo mixing panel
stickers
stories
STP
Straight Theater
sulfur trioxide
Summer of Love
“Summer of Love”
Sunset Acid Test
tabbing
“tablet titrate”
Taft, William Howard
tape loops
tardiness
tax evasion
The Telegraph
television
Tendler, Stewart
Terminal Island penitentiary
That High Lonesome Sound
therapy
Thomas, Bob
Thompson, Hunter
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Townshend, Pete
transformers
travel
Tremblay, Alfred
Trips Festival
Troll House
Trouper’s Hall
“Truckin’”
“Turn On Your Love Light”
Turner, Ike
Turner, Tina
“Under My Thumb”
underground figure status
unemployment
Unitarian Church Acid Test
University of California
University of California Psychology Department
University of Oregon
University of Virginia
US Air Force
USS Lexington
USS Minneapolis
USS Morris
Vasiliev, Vladimir
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Victoria
Vietnam
violin lessons
visas
Volstead Act
Wall of Sound
cost of
debut of
end of
Kreutzmann on
Lesh on
line arrays of
logistics of
monitors
power usage of
speakers of
Warehouse (venue)
Warner Bros. Records
Washington-Lee High School
Wavy Gravy
weaknesses
weather
website
weight lifting
Weir, Bob
amplifier of
clothes of
diet of
electric shock of
“Werewolves of London”
White Lightning
Whitty, Michael
“Who Needs the Peace Corps?”
Whole Earth Catalog (Brand)
Wickersham, Ron
“Wild Horses”
Wilson, Woodrow
Winterland
Wolfe, Tom
Wolfmother
womanizing
women’s suffrage
Woodruff, Rosemary
Woodstock Music & Art Fair
Workingman’s Dead
workman’s compensation law
workouts
World War I
World War II
Youth Opportunities Center Acid Test
Zappa, Frank
Zevon, Warren
ALSO BY ROBERT GREENFIELD
Ain’t It Time We Said Goodbye: The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile
Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music (with Burt Bacharach)
The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
A Day
in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties
Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones
Timothy Leary: A Biography
Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia
Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out (with Bill Graham)
Temple (novel)
Haymon’s Crowd (novel)
The Spiritual Supermarket: An Account of Gurus Gone Public in America
S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones
About the Author
A former associate editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone magazine, ROBERT GREENFIELD is the critically acclaimed author of several classic rock books, among them S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones as well as the definitive biographies of Timothy Leary and Ahmet Ertegun. With Bill Graham, he is the coauthor of Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out, which won the ASCAP Foundation’s Deems Taylor Award. An award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, his short fiction has appeared in GQ, Esquire, and Playboy magazines. He lives in California. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: The Muir Beach Acid Test
1. Bluegrass Roots
2. Growing Up Absurd
3. Shape-Shifting
4. Berkeley, 1964
5. Making Acid
6. Pranksters and Angels
7. Trips Festival
8. LA Fadeaway
9. Olompali
10. Print the Legend
11. Monterey Pop, and Beyond
12. Getting Busted
13. Two Festivals
14. Set Up Like a Bowling Pin
15. Wall of Sound
16. Growing Weed
17. Bear’s Dream
18. The Land Down Under
19. Real Love
20. Old and in the Way
21. A Visit from Bear
22. On the Way Home
Epilogue: More Anthems for the Bear
Appendix: Bear’s Choice: A Selected Discography
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Also by Robert Greenfield
About the Author
Copyright
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