Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow DEAD @ 70

He was a vocal supporter and champion of an open internet and as Grateful Dead lyricist known to be the cantankerous poet.  

Grateful Dead co-founder and guitarist Bob Weir and Barlow first met in high school in Colorado.  

Some of the well known Dead songs he wrote the words for are "Cassidy" "Estimated Prophet," "Black-Throated Wind," "Hell in a Bucket," "Mexicali Blues," "The Music Never Stopped" and "Throwing Stones."

Interestingly, Barlow may be best known as the intellectual force behind the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, which he co-founded in 1990 with Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus, the software company behind the spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3.

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