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Gary Fisher Mind-Melting Autobiography The Gary Fisher mind-melting autobiography has been released. The man who transformed an industry and sold mountain biking to the world, has released a new book detailing his life’s work building a happier, healthier future for the world. I last spoke with Gary at a Grateful Dead concert, which is entirely fitting, since he once organized a mountain bike race at a Dead concert. He would’ve created effects like a double rainbow at the concerts in San Francisco too. Gary Fisher and Mike Sinyard at the last Dead concert In Being Gary Fisher and The Bicy...

By CHAD GARLAND | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 30, 2020 Recruit Jerome J. Garcia’s staunch resistance to the strictures of military life six decades ago got him discharged just months into his enlistment. Five years later, he founded the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia would go on to be the namesake of both a pot brand and an ice cream flavor. It may seem obvious in retrospect that the founder of one of the biggest psychedelic rock jam bands of the 1960s wouldn't have been cut out to serve “the man,” and his commanding officer made that clear in a December 1960 discharge reco...

Other Music’s staff tell us their Top 10s of 2020 (listen to the playlist) We've been asking artists and other industry figures for their Top 10 albums of the 2020, and here we have year-end lists from a bunch of staff members of much-missed NYC record store Other Music, which closed in June of 2016. One of the first things a lot of customers did on walking into Other Music was look up at the giant white board above the counter to see the current staff Top 10 lists, so it's a treat to have a virtual version of that here. We got lists from 20 staff members, including co-owner

The ultimate acid test. i think the behavior is the acid test we have to look at. i do believe we have to be careful not to prolong this until the political expediency becomes the perceived motive. we're doing this for a moral imperative to prevent a president from committing additional high crimes and misdemeanors. i would want us to say there and maintain that moral imperative high ground. >> with additional high crimes and misdemeanors, does that include the relevant reporting that house lawyers say they're willing to consider impeeping the president a second time should they come across ne...

Been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. >> kesey was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ country garden in the wind and the rain ♪ ♪ wherever he goes, the people all complain ♪ >> lsd was not an illegal dru...