Posted on 11/10/2009 12:39:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise
The unemployment rate may top 10 percent, but there is an opening at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for a Deadhead.
The library is advertising for an archivist to handle the library’s Grateful Dead collection.
A master’s degree in archives management is required, as is “expert knowledge in the history of and scholarship of contemporary popular music, or American vernacular culture, preferably the history and influence of the Grateful Dead.”
(Excerpt) Read more at artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Job Opportunity #2
Doesn’t say if there will be a drug test.
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Rank: Associate Librarian or Librarian
Salary: Appointment Salary Range: Associate Librarian III- Librarian I, with an approximate salary range of $52,860-$68,892, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Position Available: March 1, 2010
Responsibilities:
Working with the Head of SC&A department, establishes plans and priorities for physically processing and housing of material in the Archive, including new contributions received as gifts or by purchase.
Following national standards and best practices for archival description, establishes policy standards for the arrangement and description of the GDA, and with assistance from SC&A processing team, prepares and generates an encoded finding aid for submission to the California Digital Library’s Online Archive of California.
Assesses preservation and conservation needs of collections; refers items as necessary for treatment.
Identifies material and develops content for publishing to the Library’s CONTENTdm-based digital collections. Provides descriptive metadata for items that are to be scanned.
Working with the Head of the Digital Initiatives department, establishes plans for digital content building and continued sustainability of Virtual Terrapin Station.
Identifies and resolves rights clearance and permission issues, and obtains documentation for contributed material offered to the collection via Virtual Terrapin Station’s social networking and data contribution features.
Promotes, publicizes, and creates awareness of the GDA by maintaining productive academic relations as well as creating and maintaining ties with the community and potential donors. Acts as liaison with current Grateful Dead commercial and licensing entities Rhino Entertainment, Ice Nine Publishing, and Grateful Dead Productions.
Provides specialized reference assistance to scholars and general public using the Archive. Is responsible for maintaining GDA’s dedicated email account, responds to all inquiries and answers or makes referrals to reference questions.
Manages Dead Central’s open access hours, and curates exhibitions for display in Dead Central.
Acts as registrar for material that is loaned from the Archive; handles all risk management and exhibition loan form requirements.
Plans for and manages occasional GDA conferences and events held on campus or scheduled in other venues.
Maintains GDA Blog and Facebook accounts.
Participates with Library Development in cultivating donor support for the Archive and in stewarding friends and contributors. May develop grant proposals to further support GDA processing, access, or new acquisitions.
Directly supervises processing assistants, student assistants, and project archivists.
Works with the Head of Digital Initiatives and project-based staff in an advisory role for project activities (selection, workflow, priorities, metadata, etc).
Develops and manages a volunteer and intern program taking advantage of assistance of skilled and subject knowledgeable community volunteers/interns to meet production and promotional goals of the GDA.
Participates in the management of the SC&A department, developing policies, procedures, goals, and priorities.
Librarians are expected to be professionally active outside of the library, and participate in library-wide activities, including administrative committees and special projects.
Qualifications:
Required:
Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited program or accredited graduate archives management program.
Significant, demonstrated experience working with books, manuscripts, photographs, recordings, and other material in a special collections & archives environment.
Knowledge of the access tools for special collections and archival material and the standards and procedures for their preservation and conservation.
Demonstrated experience developing processing plans and creating finding aids in accordance with national standards.
Knowledge of and ability to maintain awareness of developments in archival processing, digital information technologies, and their uses in special collections and archives.
Expert knowledge in the history and scholarship of contemporary popular music and American vernacular culture, preferably the history and influence of the Grateful Dead.
Excellent analytical, organizational, and time management skills.
Oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills sufficient to promote and present the archive to multiple audiences.
Prior experience directing the work of others.
Strongly Preferred:
Demonstrated experience working in public services in academic environment.
Demonstrated experience working on outreach and other donor related activities.
This position reports to the Head Special Collections and Archives and is represented by the UC-AFT (American Federation of Teachers). All UCSC librarians are members of the Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC)....
All the dope you can smoke and all the crappy Dead music you can stand to listen to. If I am going to listen to really really awful hippy, dope music - I will listen to Hawkwind before I listen to the Dead.
Also, I'm sure that there are several VW buses out there with enough Dead paraphernalia to keep an archivist busy for several years (or decades, if they use some of the paraphernalia).
Cool job.
Where is the Hawkwind archive? Stonehenge?
Whoever shows up with the bigest bowl on the biggest bong gets the job.
The Dead reunited for Barack Obama. Nuff said.
I've been listening to their station on XM/Sirius radio and they are playing some very laid back music. Not too much different than Crosby, Still and Young.
I've never taken a drug in my life.
What does this music have to do with drugs?
Also, does anybody know if the job has been filled yet?
Thank you very much and good night.
The Dead have without question the best archive there is music wise....hands down
I think every show was recorded...many multiple recordings same show
It’s fantastic
On one I can hear myself scream I Know You Rider at the mic hanging above me mid section 20 rows back
‘77
Two very different music forms
Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) worked at a mental hospital (where he got to experience LSD as well as shock treament).
He used the money the flowed in from his hit book to stage “Acid Tests” with copious amounts of (then legal) LSD available. The Grateful Dead became the “house band” for their events.
MAGIC TRIP - Official Trailer - Ken Kesey Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q8qlsx8tdA
The Acid Tests (1966) audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VF1eVtaoks
The 13th Floor Elevators also were “associated” with LSD and allegedly tried to “play through” the acid (just as Kesey tried to go “beyond” LSD while dosing, at least according to Tom Wolfe’s account in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test book). I think The 13th Floor Elevators surprised even the California scene when they came out to play.
you’re gonna miss me • Roky Erickson/Elevators documentary trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kREyFhFdZaw
Houston Music Theater, Houston, Texas, February 18, 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lss6ULX1RE
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/13th-Floor-Elevators-6261582.php
...”I had taken some acid,” guitarist Stacy Sutherland recollected in an interview from 1977, “and I hadn’t had any in quite a while, and it was a super strong dose, about a 1,000 micrograms or something. I had some bad trips before, but nothing like this. And then everybody turned into wolves, and I thought that our band was evil, because of some of the things we had advocated. I didn’t know what I was gonna do, but I was gonna get out of there.”
Sutherland admitted to using his wolf-morphing experience for some of the lyrical content for their Bull of the Woods LP. He also hallucinated that an ill-omened angel was on stage with him that evening — an image that continued to haunt the guitarist for the rest of his life.
The revolving stage and blinding lights also disoriented lead singer Roky Erickson, and a head full of LSD didn’t help, either.
Paranoia, both on and off stage, was at an all-time high. Suburban Houston Music Theatre was a far cry from the group’s usual performances at underground light-and-visual rock venues in Austin and San Francisco. Moreover, undercover FBI agents and HPD officers were making their presence known in the venue — and not just as fans.
Live sound engineer Walt Andrus recalled the mayhem in an interview with band historian Paul Drummond: “Roky...couldn’t finish a tune, he’d come on and forget what he was doing.”
Elevators drummer John Ike carried the band through the evening’s tribulations, later recalling the general awkwardness plaguing their performance. Listening to the recording now — thanks to recent issuance by UK-based Charly Records — it’s evident that Ike was trying his hardest to keep the band on time. Ike later recalled to Drummond, “Just before we went on, Stacy comes up to me and says, ‘John, I’m scared. I feel like a two-year-old child. I went and turned this over to Jack McClellan, my lawyer. I said, ‘Jack, Stacy feels like a two-year-old child. He’s dropped a bunch of acid and he’s gotta go on in 30 minutes. So Jack takes him outside and sticks a joint in his mouth. He gets him even higher than he already was! [Laughs.] Needless to say, it didn’t work.”
For most of the performance, Sutherland was lying down on his back, envisioning wolves and angels. And the crowd went wild for the band’s antics...
Kesey volunteered for CIA acid program MKULTRA
I think around Melo Parlk at the VA hospital
No question Kesey was the bridge between the Beats ....in particular Cassady ....and the Hippies
I remember Wolfe’s Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.....I read it 1973 I think...my mom had it
Kesey also turned on 81
Quite a character no question of that
As a kid we were very familiar with he and his La Honda tests and since thru a pal who’s big brother had access to Nick Sands Orange Sunshine we aped Kesey free form approach as opposed to full of himself Timothy Leary’s ways which I found guru like and simply a means for Leary to live off others and screw young impressionable girls
Two very different approaches to psychedelics
I personally two folks who participated in MKUKLTRA......one at Columbia and another at university Chicago
CIA unwittingly changed youth culture irrevocably
Without LSD resistance to the Vietnam war might have been less in kids
Kesey volunteered for CIA acid program MKULTRA
I think around MenloPark at the VA hospital
No question Kesey was the bridge between the Beats ....in particular Cassady ....and the Hippies
I remember Wolfe’s Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.....I read it 1973 I think...my mom had it
Kesey also turned on 81 to lsd...imagine sonny barged on lsd....lol
Quite a character no question of that
As a kid we were very familiar with he and his La Honda tests and since thru a pal who’s big brother had access via Quicksilver for whom he worked to Nick Sands Orange Sunshine we aped Kesey free form approach to psychedelic use as opposed to full of himself Timothy Leary’s ways which I found guru like and simply a means for Leary to live off others and screw young impressionable girls
Two very different approaches to psychedelics
I personally know two folks who participated in MKUKLTRA......one at Columbia and another at university Chicago....the former a lovely old lady who’s a wonderful psychiatrist ...German Chilean..I adore her
CIA unwittingly changed youth culture irrevocably
Without LSD resistance to the Vietnam war might have been less in kids
I love 13th floor elevators rendition of Baby Blue by Dylan
Main thing I notice in Kesey movie is the girls are cute and young
One freaks out at Larry McMurtrys home in Houston ..cops find her baked on sidney
And Neal.....always on Benzedrine....a live wire......crazy man..
Soon to be dead
Drunk and about frozen literally by a railroad track near San Miguel Allende Mexico
Cassady brought the young beauty to Kesey acid test where she gang banged the Hells Angels
Garcia and Hunter Thompson interrupted the romp and fled somewhat shocked...
That’s a sex notoriety event of that era to rival the Mudshark of Mythology by Zeppelin and vanilla fudge members....Bonzo I’m sure was in on it.lol
yeesh. Talk about a blast from the past.
Cassady was the “star” of Kerouac’s On The Road, he just gave Cassady a different name. Who was the young beauty Cassady brought to the Acid Test?
A buddy of mine knew the Grateful Dead and he was bugging me to hitchhike to SF so we could go hang out with them. That’s the last thing I needed, I prolly wouldn’t be alive if I’d agreed to do it. We did once drive over to George Carlin’s house in Venice to see if he was home. He wasn’t, but his wife invited us in to hang out for awhile. She didn’t know us from Adam but I guess we looked harmless, which we were. Can you imagine anyone doing that today. Good grief.
“Without LSD resistance to the Vietnam war might have been less in kids”
I think it was pot more than acid.
<< I think every show was recorded...many multiple recordings same show. It’s fantastic >>
I saw them a couple times at the Ventura County Fairgrounds in the early/mid ‘80s and was amazed by the number of bootleggers with very high quality recording equipment perfectly positioned all together in the middle of the crowd. The Dead was the only band I know of that encouraged it. Turned out to be a great business model for a perpetual touring band like them with a cult following. Not exactly the Peter Grant model. Heh.
Best Dead show I ever saw was at Golden Hall in San Diego, Feb. of ‘82.
What was the date of the ‘77 show you saw? I want to hear the “I Know You Rider” yell.
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