THE LONG STRANGE INDEX
Vendor Route BriefThe stories are
part of the music.
Lore pages connect songs, technology, rooms, trade, service, memory, and present-day practice. They summarize; they do not reproduce lyrics or copyrighted books.
The tapers' section
A culture of permission, gear craft, lineage notes, trading, preservation, and listening that made the live archive possible.
1980s–presentShakedown Street as a moving village
The parking-lot marketplace became gas money, gallery, kitchen, message board, and social map for people moving from show to show.
1974The Wall of Sound
A giant, short-lived sound system that treated amplification as part engineering project, part collective instrument.
May 8, 1977How Cornell became more than a date
Tape circulation, performance quality, scarcity, debate, and repetition turned one Barton Hall show into a shared reference point.
August 27, 1972Veneta, the Field Trip, and the heat
A benefit, a scorching Oregon day, a famously exploratory set, and a filmed crowd made the event a complete piece of scene mythology.
August 1–9The Days Between
The span from Jerry Garcia's birthday to the day he died became an annual period for shows, service, memory, art, and gathering.
1977–presentTerrapin as song, place, and gathering idea
Terrapin moved from an ambitious suite into a visual world, a venue identity, and a shorthand for musical family.
1960s710 Ashbury and the neighborhood map
The band's communal San Francisco home anchors a larger map of rooms, streets, shops, ballrooms, and counterculture infrastructure.
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