Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead

by Rock Scully

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The story of the rock band, The Grateful Dead, by its manager for 20 years from 1964. He recounts the band's evolution, the drug addiction, Woodstock, police busts, complicated relationships between band members and with other celebrities, and the death in 1995 of Jerry Garcia.

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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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The story of the rock band, The Grateful Dead, by its manager for 20 years from 1964. He recounts the band's evolution, the drug addiction, Woodstock, police busts, complicated relationships between band members and with other celebrities, and the death in 1995 of Jerry Garcia.

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