(This page is called ThursdaySessions)
credential issue
8 am
MattArmstrong
MBA from UVA and UNCGreensboro
George Garrett and Fred Chapell
novel on GD called Schizo
This novel is not so much about the Grateful Dead but the chapter I'm reading today does concern the Dead...
main character RolandWatts
nickname becomes complicated and signified
"Fatigue passes for maturity..."
my first show
shadowboxing the wall
soldier field...
"We were all taking painkillers. [It was a great show?]."
deft
convincing tone
beautiful use of language
storytelling
Parrish intellectual curiosity
Living with Jerry would be a grad school
Gans group interview
Hell's Angels
working class , catholic guilt
ever-growing GD critical bibliography needs a guide to help people read what they want to read
publishing
GD in novels as backdrop/context
show multiple versions
rebecca
picky deadhead thing
bane of my existence
as a deadhead i'm not picky
but as a scholar... i have to be
social histories of parts of the parking lot
painful to construct
what's written often appears not to be accurate
issue of memory...
all they can do is tell us what they remember
Hank Harrison's book
"He definitely had a sociology-- a sociological perspective on life
... Wally Heider just died ...
Kesey: "It's a true story even if it didn't happen."
Scully re EastWest
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art/commerce
NeilYoung "This Note's for You"
BobDylan VictoriasSecret ad
ossification discussion very interesting
role of structure
you can't unlearn a pattern that works
like the lyric flubs
people paying, better on our bad nights
ossification <> structure
arrived at a working solution (spirtually)
we've seen phil's ideas with his own band
good sound necessary for emotional connection to audience (compare giants stadium sucky sound)
WharfRat in 1986 return included stretching out in an unfamiliar place
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I was coming at it from a whole other part of the postmodern whatever." -Rebecca Adams
Donna Tartt "The Secret History"
people are equating "postmodern" with a pejorative
GaryBurnett argument with SteveSilberman
Dead were modernists. Phish and JamBands were the postmodernists.
Postmodernism problematizes everything."
transcendance, sincerity, naivete
"we are true believers in that possibility"
Stanley Fish (Fish with an F)