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Olompali4

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Dec 16, 2014, 7:05:41 PM12/16/14
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RIP
NFA!
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Michael Black

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Dec 17, 2014, 11:55:24 PM12/17/14
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Olompali4 wrote:

> RIP
> NFA!
>
But I've always wondered if Tim Scully was related.

I've never seen an indication that they were related, but
Tim Scully worked with Owsley making acid, and it seems odd
to have two people with the same relatively uncommon last name
in almost the same circle.

Michael

frndthdevl

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Dec 18, 2014, 1:29:33 AM12/18/14
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On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 8:55:24 PM UTC-8, Michael Black wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Olompali4 wrote:
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> > RIP
> > NFA!
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Hola Olo!

Yoke R

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Dec 18, 2014, 7:40:24 AM12/18/14
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On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:55:24 PM UTC-5, Michael Black wrote:
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>
> But I've always wondered if Tim Scully was related.
>
> I've never seen an indication that they were related, but
> Tim Scully worked with Owsley making acid, and it seems odd
> to have two people with the same relatively uncommon last name
> in almost the same circle.
>
> Michael


I've wondered about that, too. I have heard the surname Scully several times before. I used to work with a Tina Scully and had a supervisor named Robert Scully. The name is Irish, or so Robert Scully told me.


But what was Rock's real first name?

Michael Black

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Dec 18, 2014, 10:37:26 AM12/18/14
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I'm not saying it's completey uncommon, but it's not like "Black" or
"Smith".

I seem to recall Eileen Law and Tom Law (of the Hog Farm) were married at
some point, which explains why there are two people with "Law" as their
last name in a relatively small circle. I'm sure others can be explained
that way, but since there wasn't gay marriage back then, I don't think Tim
and Rock were married at some point.

And one thing that does disconnect them is the fact that after all this
time, I've never seen anything to link them. Enough has been written
about both of them that that should have come up by now. ON the other
hand, nobody said "no, they aren't related".

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> But what was Rock's real first name?
>
I thought I saw his full name somewhere in an article yesterday. It's not
at wikipedia.

On the other hand, sometimes people actually have first names that sound
like nicknames but aren't. I once met a "Chip" and asked him, and he said
no, he actually had been named that at birth, when I assumed it was a
nickname for some other name.

So perhaps Rock really did have "Rock" on his birth certificate.

Michael

bmoore

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Dec 18, 2014, 1:56:52 PM12/18/14
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Dana

3jane.

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Dec 18, 2014, 10:32:06 PM12/18/14
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Living with the Dead wad a great read, very honest and upfront about his and Garcia's heroin escapades and his eventually getting kicked out of the band and cleaning up. I did not know he had cancer, fare thee well, Mr. Scully...

Michael Black

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Dec 19, 2014, 12:10:39 AM12/19/14
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I bought the book when it was at clearance price, but I think at that
point I'd read too many books to feel like reading another one. One of
these days I will get around to reading it.

Michael

sparksfly

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Dec 19, 2014, 4:50:57 PM12/19/14
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It might not be the most factually correct book about the Dead but I thought it was one of the funnest to read. His recounting of Keith Moon crawling out his window several stories up and knocking on Jerry's hotel window while Rock and Jerry happened to be in the room enjoying a little blow is just hilarious.

sweetbac

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Dec 19, 2014, 5:46:38 PM12/19/14
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Liked the book he wrote.
Cold how the Dead "family" shunned his ass and left him for dead
back in the mid 80's


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