GC Have you been reading The Electric Koolaid Acid Test again? If you love "The Merry Pranksters Welcome the Beatles" story, I know it's a stretch, but you might love the third installment of Anne Rice's Vampire Lestat series, The Queen of the Damned, where Lestat is the headliner at a concert that has the same imagery created by Wolfe when he leads you from the bus to the Cow Palace and the aftermath. It has all the pandemonium and chaos that Wolfe's conveys so palpably. You might want to read the first two, too - three really cool books.

"Where does the time go?"

All you have to do is listen to any Django Rhinehart (sp?) music and you hear Garcia's licks. That's one of the reasons my friend Matt named one of his dogs, Django. He named the other Gibson. Back in the day Bo Diddley opened for the Dead. At the old Academy of Music on 14th St. in Manhattan in spring of 1972. Bo Diddley opened for Jerry/Merle band on a boat trip leaving from Battery Park called Pirates Ball. It was a great show and Hell's Angel's ran the security and also handed out nitrous balloons with the High Times logo on them.