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[Dennis McNally] ↠ A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.. The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock
| Title | : | A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767911865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 736 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.. 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 entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixties’ roots and folk scene,
Yet the most fascinating, and revealing, thing about the Dead is their fans the Deadheads: tie-dyed, drugged up and devoted in a way that makes Beatlemania look rational. From Publishers Weekly The Grateful Dead forever changed popular music by ushering in the psychedelic sound of the 1960s as they valiantly toured almost nonstop for three decades and consumed loads of illegal substances. . What did the Dead have that fellow San Francisco bands Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Moby Grape lacked? As author McNally (Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America) explains in this entertaining and well-written book, the Dea
Amazon Customer said Fun. I enjoyed this book. I learned about the Dead, and the general environment that their characters, culture, and music developed in. The majority of the book chronicles the early years of the Dead, with less and less time being spent documenting the later years. At first, I was disappointed that not enough time was devoted to developing the 'characters'. Relatively few quotes are attributed directly to band members, and there is not much characterization of the band members in general. Towards the end of the book, more of this happens, and I realize why it was g. "Time warped and uneven but still fascinating" according to James Tepper. One one hand it makes perfect sense to have the band's publicist write its biography because he will be privy to lots of cool inside info. On the other hand having someone who worked for the band as its publicist almost certainly guarantees a lack of balance and impartiality. Both of these things are true about A Long Strange Trip. There is also a strange kind of time compression in which the very earliest days of the band and Jerry are dwelled upon at length , even though this predates McNally's personal experience. In contrast, the last 15 or 20 years of the. No rose-colored glasses here I have to say that I have read most all the books on the Dead. This one is by far the best up to 1980 for linear history. My favorite part was the writing on the actual concert memories in the flash forward style. The least favorite part was reading a ton of stories that are out there in many forms. The Dead's family and band personalities were written about with a sincere love , but also with all the flaws and blemishes that many fans will have difficulty digesting , and the voluminous passages on the managers getting fired and re-hired gets a bit thick. Howe
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