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The best example I could find explaining what Jerry Garcia meant to Deadheads comes from legendary venture capitalist Roger McNamee, of all people. From the New York Times on the day Garcia died, August 9, 1995, “I feel like a member of my family died,” said Roger McNamee, a general partner at Integral Capital Partners [...]
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No, this post isn’t about my looming Twitter addiction. It’s about what you can learn from using social networks. One of the people I decided to follow when I started on Twitter recently was John Perry Barlow ( @JohnPerryBarlow) I mostly know of Barlow through his songwriting work for the Grateful Dead. He was a [...]
So last Tuesday my six year old daughter finished her third piano lesson. She was clearly loving it and showing quite a bit of natural ability. When I went home that night, my wife and I decided that we needed to get her something to practice on. We were thinking a desktop keyboard, something small [...]
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I’m a Deadhead. I love The Grateful Dead and the beautiful music they made for nearly thirty years. In college, Spring Break did not mean Daytona Beach or fun in the sun. It meant one thing. A week on the road with the Grateful Dead on their annual east coast spring tour. These epic road [...]
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Legendary jazz trumpet master Freddie Hubbard has passed away at age 70. A towering figure in jazz circles, Mr. Hubbard played on hundreds of recordings in a career that began in 1958, the year he arrived in New York from his hometown of Indianapolis, where he had studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music [...]
Elvis left the building for good on August 16, 1977. I remember it like it was yesterday. When news broke, we were celebrating my mother’s birthday (Happy Birthday Mom!). It was as if the air went out of the room. Nobody was particularly surprised that he died given how he was looking. It was more [...]
