The Long Strange Golden Road Blog

In this two-part episode, we hear of how Courtenay develops his relationship with the Grateful Dead.            

Courtenay jumps on a Greyhound bus and heads West. This is the beginning of the Grateful Dead relationship.  

Courtenay has been whisked off to Vermont by Judith to a 500 acre farm. Here he makes art for craft shows and enjoys the simple life or growing org...

Here is a custom finish guitar that was commissioned by Howard Bialos of Dead Space Band. He had a luthier do the wrap and impeccable finish. We th...

Courtenay begins his T-shirt business and sells them on campus. He starts developing his craft into an art form. Concert commissions begin. ...

cIn this episode Courtenay begins his Tie Dye craft in Syracuse, N.Y. The lovely Gale is introduced, and we journey with Courtenay on his first LSD...

In this episode Courtenay and crew are still road tripping and end up in Acapulco. There are beach huts, Piranhas, and more on this trip.    

In this episode Courtenay and Samantha part ways. Courtenay, a couple of his friends and his business partner go on a road trip to Mexic...

In this episode the lovely Samantha is introduced, she enters into Courtenay's life wearing the first original tie dye piece he had ever seen b...

In this episode, I land in New York and my fortune starts with meeting Moses Morales and starting a Head Shop in Greenwich Village.

In this Sunday Sessions episode, I talk about the development of the cellar parties and moving through the mid and late teenage years and into the ...