Read Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead by Rock Scully, David Dalton Online
Read ^ Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead PDF by ! Rock Scully, David Dalton eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead Steve Cakouros said Five Stars. Great. Junglies said What was itIf you can remember the sixties then you. This is an immensely readable swashbuckling tale by the first mate on the good ship Grateful Dead for some years at least. The reader is transfixed by the gory tales of drug use and abuse of sex and life on the rock 'n' rollroad. You are mesmerized by tales of dosing everyone who came within reach with LSD and standing back and watching the reactions. With each page there is new excess and w
| Title | : | Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570423717 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 389 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
He does remember the LSD and the drugs and the hazy high jinks: the souring Haight-Ashbury scene, Woodstock and Altamont, the "endless party rolling down the road." He describes Garcia as "magnetic, affable, inquisitive, approachable and infinitely benign," and that's about as deep as it gets. . And after 20 years, with Garcia getting ever deeper into drugs and isolation, the group, he says, became both a self-parody and a "cash cow." Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. In fact, they may be disappointed by the low profile Jerry Garcia keeps in Scully's memories. His account of those years, written with the coauthor of Marianne Faithfull's autobiography, is not addressed exclusively to an audience of Deadheads. A few of the albums, especially early ones, get so
Simultaneous.. The Grateful Dead's longtime manager provides an entertaining eyewitness account of the band's behind-the-scenes history, from the writing of their greatest songs and their legendary encounters with other celebrities to their emergence as cultural icons
Steve Cakouros said Five Stars. Great. Junglies said What was itIf you can remember the sixties then you. This is an immensely readable swashbuckling tale by the first mate on the good ship Grateful Dead for some years at least. The reader is transfixed by the gory tales of drug use and abuse of sex and life on the rock 'n' rollroad. You are mesmerized by tales of dosing everyone who came within reach with LSD and standing back and watching the reactions. With each page there is new excess and with every other page the narrator recounts some contact with the authorities or other and escapades of derring-do and close shaves.What a long, strange trip indeed. Of course, the writers' credibility must. A Customer said Entertaining rock biography, irritating attitude. I listened to an audiobook version, which at only "Entertaining rock biography, irritating attitude" according to A Customer. I listened to an audiobook version, which at only 2 tapes in length I assume to be a drastic abridgement; my comments are therefore qualified. In general, this was a fun and revealing narrative, a very human depiction of artists who have been merchandized and iconified beyond all recognition. Of course (as another reviewer commented) the focus was 90% on Jerry, so the insight into band dynamics is by no means complete. But I especially enjoyed learning about the early years in the Haight, and about their earliest recording experiences, before the Grateful Dead arena-rock machine really got ro. tapes in length I assume to be a drastic abridgement; my comments are therefore qualified. In general, this was a fun and revealing narrative, a very human depiction of artists who have been merchandized and iconified beyond all recognition. Of course (as another reviewer commented) the focus was 90% on Jerry, so the insight into band dynamics is by no means complete. But I especially enjoyed learning about the early years in the Haight, and about their earliest recording experiences, before the Grateful Dead arena-rock machine really got ro
Download Living With the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus With Garcia and the Grateful Dead
Download as PDF : Click Here
Download as DOC : Click Here
Download as RTF : Click Here