The Grateful Dead: Burnout Sets In
Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 23 August 1969
But I reckon l got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilise me and I can't stand it. I been there before.
– Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
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