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Sourced identities recovered from the corpus - a public page exists only for a confirmed public figure, and every role tag traces to cited evidence. No biographies are written here.

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  • David GansAuthor · BroadcasterHost of the syndicated 'Grateful Dead Hour' radio program and co-author of 'Playing in the Band' (St. Martin's Press, 1985). The corpus's single highest-volume notable author (~2519 verified records, 1992-2010): weekly GD Hour program logs, national broadcast station lists, setlist posts, and Crazy Fingers gig announcements. A genuine primary-source author of the Deadhead broadcast/print record.
  • John Perry BarlowLyricist · Author · Community figureGD lyricist and EFF co-founder; CONFIRMED corpus poster as barlow@eff.org / barlow@icecube.pinedale.wy.us (1992). Authored the all-caps denial of a 1992 Jerry-health net-rumor ('THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT FOUNDATION... Bobby said nothing of this sort to me') and a firsthand recollection of the 1982 Jamaica World Music Festival. The 1993 'Being In Nothingness' Microtimes essay (VR + cyberspace, name-checking Garcia and Leary) was reposted to the group by david@c-cat, not self-posted.

“The fact is, no one but the Grateful Dead can perform a Grateful Dead song.” — John Barlow, The Economy of Ideas, Mar. 1994

Long Strange Click cross-references independently maintained information about Grateful Dead shows, with extreme gratitude to the tapers, archivists, and pedants who came before.

Not affiliated with Grateful Dead Productions or Ice Nine Publishing. Be a lot cooler if it were.

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