The History of the Grateful Dead

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  • A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

    • ASIN: 0767911865
    • ISBN: 0767911865
    • Brand: Three Rivers Press CA
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

    The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical en... [Read More]

  • This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead

    • ASIN: 1250058562
    • ISBN: 9781250058560
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

    In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band’s story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices into a seamless oral tapestry. Capturing the ebullient spi... [Read More]

  • Conversations with the Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book

    • ASIN: 0306810999
    • ISBN: 0306810999
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    A collection of interviews—some vintage, some recent, and some brand-new—Conversations with the Dead is the first (and only) book in which the Grateful Dead speak in their own words about their music and their lives. David Gans, a self-professed Deadhead and host of "The Grateful Dead Hour," asked Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and the rest of the ban... [Read More]

  • Eyes of the World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965-1995

    • ASIN: 099653699X
    • ISBN: 9780996536998
    • Brand: Rock Out Books
    • Manufacturer: Rock Out Books

    Eyes of the World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965 – 1995 is a fine art, hardcover coffee table photography book that brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive collection of photographs from a wide range of photographers whose work has captured the Grateful Dead at different times throughout their career.Features 220 images across 272 p... [Read More]

  • Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead

    • ASIN: 1250033799
    • ISBN: 9781250033796
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems and fan recordings, they were forward-thinking cha... [Read More]

  • Grateful Dead Family Album

    • ASIN: 0867198737
    • ISBN: 0867198737
    • Manufacturer: Last Gasp

    A treasure trove of memorabilia, photos and writings, the Grateful Dead Family Album is both a candid family history of one of America's most enduring rock bands and a priceless time capsule of '60s rock culture and counterculture. Filled with anecdotes and never-before-seen photos of the most famous personalities of the time, compiled by a band in... [Read More]

  • Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

    • ASIN: 0306903059
    • ISBN: 0306903059
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995, the remaining band members exp... [Read More]

  • Between the Dark and Light: The Grateful Dead Photography of Jay Blakesberg

    • UPC: 073999921816
    • ASIN: 0879308141
    • ISBN: 0879308141
    • Brand: Brand: Backbeat Books
    • Manufacturer: Backbeat Books

    (Book). Between the Dark and Light presents an astonishing array of images that capture the musical, cultural, and personal magic of the Grateful Dead. Now in paperback with 16 pages of new photographs, this acclaimed book showcases more than 900 rich color and black-and-white photos that bring the Grateful Dead experience to life. Accompanying the... [Read More]

  • Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

    • ASIN: 0316154490
    • ISBN: 0316154490
    • Brand: Lesh, Phil
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    In this ruthlessly honest bestseller, the bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. of photos.

  • Living with the Dead:: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead

    • UPC: 683865011635
    • ASIN: 0815411634
    • ISBN: 0815411634
    • Manufacturer: Cooper Square Press

    This memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

  • Garcia : An American Life

    • ASIN: 0140291997
    • ISBN: 0140291997
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock 'n' roll bands in history. Now, Blair Jackson, who covered the Grateful Dead for twenty-five year... [Read More]

  • The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded about Love and Haight (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

    • ASIN: 0812696239
    • ISBN: 0812696239
    • Brand: Brand: Open Court
    • Manufacturer: Open Court

    The Grateful Dead and Philosophy contains essays from 20 professional philosophers whose love of the Dead's music and scene have led them to reflect on different philosophical questions that have arisen from the enigma that is the Grateful Dead. Coming at the Dead from a variety of perspectives, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, this book co... [Read More]

  • Back from the Dead

    • ASIN: 1476716862
    • ISBN: 1476716862
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    This inspiring memoir from sports and cultural icon Bill Walton recounts his devastating injuries and amazing recoveries, set in the context of his UCLA triumphs under John Wooden, his storied NBA career, and his affinity for music and the Grateful Dead.In February 2008, Bill Walton suffered a catastrophic spinal collapse—the culmination of a lif... [Read More]

  • Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

    • ASIN: 031230353X
    • ISBN: 031230353X
    • Brand: St. Martin's Press
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead

    • ASIN: 0306817330
    • ISBN: 0306817330
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes of live Grateful Dead concerts. A teenager livin... [Read More]

  • You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates

    • ASIN: 155022932X
    • ISBN: 155022932X
    • Manufacturer: ECW Press

    Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties, including the infamous concert at Altamont where a man was murdered by a Hells Angel in front of the stage while the Stones played on. After the show, Sam was left behind to make peace with the Hells Angels, the various mobsters and organizations who... [Read More]

  • Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead

    • ASIN: 1570629250
    • ISBN: 1570629250
    • Brand: Shambhala
    • Manufacturer: Shambhala

  • The Dead End Kids of Port Richmond, Philadelphia: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 1403306443
    • ISBN: 1403306443
    • Brand: Brand: AuthorHouse
    • Manufacturer: AuthorHouse

    During the 30s and 40s in Port Richmond, we lived in exciting times with interesting characters such as Beebo, Googoo, Maxie, Wanda and others. I was afraid those times and characters would be forever lost to posterity unless someone put them down on paper. This memoir is the result. It is primarily, but not exclusively, of my first eighteen years ... [Read More]

  • Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia

    • ASIN: 0061715727
    • ISBN: 0061715727
    • Brand: Greenfield, Robert
    • Manufacturer: It Books

    For more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time. In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best. Together the voices in this oral biography explore his remarkable life: his child... [Read More]

  • Been So Long: My Life and Music

    • ASIN: 1250125480
    • ISBN: 1250125480
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    "A modern parable." ―from the foreword by Grace Slick“Jorma Kaukonen is a force in American music, equally adept at fingerpicked acoustic folk and blues as he is at wailing on an electric.” – Acoustic Guitar“Jorma Kaukonen lit a fuse and transformed his electric guitar into a firework.” – Live For Live MusicIncludes a CD of live music... [Read More]

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