Table of Contents
1 Rainbows Are Real 1
2 And Miles to Go 6
3 Cold-Calling Kesey 11
4 American Road 16
5 Wetlands Preserved 22
6 Ten Thousand Shows 29
7 A Guest at My Own Party 36
8 Becca & Company 41
9 Seventy-Two Hours 46
10 You Can't See It If You're Not There 53
11 MMMBob! 58
12 Black Lily 63
13 Soldier Field: Part 1 68
14 Where Getting into a Jam Is a Good Thing 76
15 The Night Before 86
16 Operation Kinko's 93
17 Inaugural Blues 100
18 Be the Last Man Standing … or the First to Leave 105
19 The Days Between 109
20 U2 in 3D 115
21 Roxy Music 121
22 Green Apples 129
23 Rock. And Roll. 134
24 Bowlive (So Many Memories I Don't Remember) 143
25 Nearly Flaming Out and The Roots Redeemed 149
26 Bowl Train 154
27 GoogaMooga 161
28 The Obvious Is Obvious (Until You Miss It) 165
29 The Original Rock Palace 170
30 Choose Your Own Adventure 180
31 Garcia + Weir = POW! 187
32 Viva Las Vegas 193
33 Unbroken Chain 198
34 The Faraway End of the Far Away 205
35 The More I Practice, the Luckier I Get 211
36 Doubling Down 216
37 Attics of My Life 225
38 Formerly Interlocken 241
39 Jam The Vote 251
40 Bobby & Phil 256
41 The Apollo Mission 261
42 The Majority Party 266
43 Easy Rider Live, Baby! 271
44 There's a Reward 276
45 Madison Square Funk 281
46 Jimmy Fallon's Almost Dead 286
47 Be in the Stream 294
48 Rescue Squad 305
49 Grateful Mahalo 315
50 Weekends Don't Happen Every Day 321
Acknowledgments 331
Photo Credits 333