Gerald Nicosia has spent a decade challenging the disposition of Jack Kerouac's $20 million literary estate. Along the way, he's annoyed most of what remains of the beat generation.
Photo: Adam PerryThe DeadThursday, May 7, 2009Pepsi CenterBetter than: a Grateful Dead cover band but at times worse than some of Phil Lesh's bands -- wait, the Dead kind of is a Grateful Dead cover band.Singer/guitarist Bob Weir, always the wild-eyed youngster in the
Grateful Dead, was in his late teens and early 20s when the Dead was
first playing Ken Kesey's Acid Tests in the Bay Area and promoter Bill
Graham was giving out free apples and beautiful hand-printed posters at
1960s Dead shows in
