He gives his last penny, either to pay the man’s debts or to give him a decent burial. “The motif of a cycle of folk tales which begin with the hero’s coming upon a group of people ill-treating or refusing to bury the corpse of a man who had died without paying his debts. The Funk & Wagnall’s Dictionary defines Grateful Dead as: So I said, ‘How about Grateful Dead’? And that was it.” – Jerry Garcia It was one of those moments, you know, like everything else went blank, diffuse, just sort of oozed away, and there was GRATEFUL DEAD in big, black letters edged all around in gold, man, blasting out at me, such a stunning combination. I opened it and there was ‘Grateful Dead’, those words juxtaposed. “One day we were over al Phil ’s house… He had a big dictionary. Every now and again you meet with an object that gives you physical proximity, and makes you feel a connection to a moment that resonates deeply across time and space. In this case, THEE dictionary edition referenced by Jerry Garcia as the primary source for the band’s name, now on view at the UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead Archive.įrom Blair Jackson’s Garcia: An American Life:
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