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David G. Dodd


Born
in Livermore, California, The United States
February 14, 1957


David G. Dodd is the City Librarian for San Rafael, California, with prior experience at several libraries including San Francisco Public Library and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Born in Livermore, California, he studied German Literature at UC Davis and spent a year in Bremen, Germany. An experienced reference librarian and researcher, he co-edited The Grateful Dead Reader with his wife Diana Spaulding. Dodd is active in his Unitarian Universalist congregation, plays piano, and lives in Petaluma with his family, maintaining a lifelong passion for writing and community engagement. ...more

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The Complete Annotated Grat...
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“Der tunkel Sterne, der birget sich. Als tuo Du, Frouwe schoene, so Du sehest mich. So la du diniu Ougen gen an einen andern Man. Son weiz doch luetzel iemen, wiez under uns zwein ist getan. [The “dark star” hides itself. Do likewise, beautiful lady, when you see me: Let your eyes glance at another man, And no one will know how things are between us.]”
― David G. Dodd, The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
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“Scatology is the activity of tracking the spoor of the song, detecting borrowings, influences, and/or outright thefts; of uncovering, through internal evidence, the parentage of a particular song, or of repetitive tendencies throughout a body of work—of actual or imagined contingent sources.”
― David G. Dodd, The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
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“I also believe, through experience, that beneath the window dressing of metaphor and rhyme, song is a naked, living, and amorphous creature.”
― David G. Dodd, The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
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