Nymphet Alumni

Ep. 86: Deadheads and Dark Hippie-ism


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In this week's episode, we don our polarized hippie glasses and go back in time to investigate the cultural legacy of the Grateful Dead and all that they represent: psychedelia, Pied Piper figures and their cult-like followings, cross-country motor travel, bootleg merchandising, musical improvisation, and more. We analyze the parallels between the infamous Summer of Love and the summer now upon us, with a special focus on the darksided undercurrents lurking through both.

Links:
Finding Authenticity in a T-Shirt – The New Yorker (on Online Ceramics) 
Owsley Stanley's websiteThe Bear Story
Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD – Rolling Stone
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, 1968 (full PDF!)
Grateful Dead 2015 Chacos collab
The End of Merch – GQ
Will the Grateful Dead Live Forever ... Through Merch? – Billboard
A Guide to Grateful Dead Iconography
How Fashion Became Obsessed with the Grateful Dead – WSJ 
Why, in 2018, is Fashion Obsessed with the Grateful Dead Aesthetic? – Fashionista
The Disembodied Body of Marilyn Monroe – Wendy Lesser

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