![]() ![]() Its title is taken from a Grateful Dead song written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter from their 1970 album American Beauty.Īfter graduating from high school, best friends Alice Marano and Darlene Davis take a trip to Thailand, despite some reluctance from Darlene who tells her dad they are going to Hawaii. It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for alleged drug smuggling. Ice Nine’s Alan Trist explained that the I Ching hexagram used in the logo-also an idea of Hunter’s-means “gathering together changing to holding together,” which might also describe the mystical substance of Ice Nine in Cat’s Cradle.Brokedown Palace is a 1999 American drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman and Lim Kay Tong. The Grateful Dead’s Ice Nine Publishing was named by Robert Hunter in a reference to the mystical substance in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. We are investigating whether Pigpen also had a cat of that name. The Grateful Dead’s occasional songwriting pseudonym McGanahan Skjellyfetti was a reference to Kenneth Patchen’s The Memoirs of a Shy Poronographer, a joke of Pigpen’s. ![]() Musicologist, artist, and journalist Mike Hamad creates beautiful visualizations of music by the Dead and others, viewable at Setlist Schematics.Īlong with his work with Jerry Garcia on Hooteroll? and Side Trips, Volume One, Howard Wales has a deep solo discography that you can dig into at Bandcamp. More information about upcoming meetings of Grateful Dead scholars. Historian Nicholas Meriwether is one of the movers behind the Grateful Dead Studies Organization, who publish the scholarly journal Grateful Dead Studies. Andrew McGaan posted a beautiful meditation on the song recently. ![]() “Brokedown Palace” was the second of three sets of lyrics Robert Hunter wrote during a monumental day in London in May 1970, staying at old friend Alan Trist’s flat in South Kensington, explored in depth during our “Ripple” episode. ![]()
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