Furthur at Northerly Island: No Jerry, but not bad

Jul. 18, 2012
Jerry Garcia, the guitarist/singer/songwriter/reluctant leader of the Grateful Dead and the Deadhead nation, played his last show right here in Chicago, at the “pre-spaceship” Soldier Field in July of 1995.

Obit: The man behind rock 'n' roll's long, strange trips

Mar. 14, 2011
 Though his name may not have been as famous as that of Timothy Leary or Ken Kesey, Augustus Owsley Stanley III did more on a practical level than almost anyone else in the ’60s to help a generation “tune in, turn on, and drop out”—it was LSD from his laboratory tha