Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead
by Rock Scully
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As a manager for the Grateful Dead, Rock Scully was with the band from its early days in San Francisco to the years it spent touring the globe as one of the most enduring legends in music history. In Living with the Dead , Scully gives a complete account of his outrageous experiences with the band, during years that saw the Grateful Dead transform from a folksy revivalist band to psychedelic explorers of outer space. In addition to close-up portraits of band members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, show more Pigpen, Phil Lesh, Micky Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, Scully brings into the story many of the people the Dead encountered in their journeys across America's musical landscape, including Ken Kesey, Janis Joplin, Etta James, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and the Jefferson Airplane. Scully tells the story of the band with genuine feeling; the tour disasters, acid trips, and burnouts, but most importantly the exaltation of delivering fantastic music. show lessTags
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I was never a huge fan of their music, kinda lost interest after Workingman's Dead. But I came up the same time as them, so they were the theme music of my adolescence. Fascinating read and really sad how the drugs got harder and they lost touch with their founding ethos.
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- Music, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 782.42166 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs
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- ML421 .G72 .S38 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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