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The Grateful Dead: Remembrance of Hippies Past

Jack Basher, Creem, December 1977

"HUH? THE Grateful Dead? Me? A think piece? I haven't thought about them since 1968. Whaddaya mean you'll give me all weekend to think about them? I don't wanna think about them. Why don't they go die, already? I ain't doin' no piece on the Gratef... How much? Oh, when do ya need it by again?"

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