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

A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
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The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicistâ€”a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960sâ€™ 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 â€œPigpenâ€ McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixtiesâ€™ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes.

Dennis McNally, the bandâ€™s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Deadâ€™s history in A Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the bandâ€™s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Deadâ€™s early days in late-sixties San Franciscoâ€”an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Keseyâ€™s acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley â€œBearâ€ Stanley, and performing the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. But McNally carries the Deadâ€™s saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique bond between performers and audience, and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation.

Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the bandâ€™s inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.
Country USA
Brand Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780767911863
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2003-08-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780767911863

Country	USA
Brand	Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780767911863
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2003-08-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780767911863

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

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