Agreed there's some insight to Jerry. I kind of got annoyed when the author reached a point that merited more insider's information, like when he touched on the meeting of Joseph Campbell and the symposium held at Berkeley on November first 1986, immediately following the halloween show at the Kaiser. There was mention and a picture, but he really didn't go into detail about that day, which if you were in attendance was a turning point in understanding the celebration of life at a dead concert. Tim Newton is more of an uninformed historian of GD culture than an insider deadhead. Constantly throughout the book one has to sift through 2 to 3 pages of reading about Ronald Reagan and black panthers history, ect to get to get 2 - 3 paragraphs of Jerry. Granted, the book has a nice title and there's a really good picture of Jerry on the front cover; however, a weight has been lifted now that i've returned it to the library and don't have to sift through it anymore. Also, I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this problem, but AI is really fucking with my entries into something like this forum. It's editing out my cusswords and rewording my thoughts changing their projections in subtle ways that discourage, rather than encourage, me to continue participating at any community based writing activity.