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...and took a nap! "Three Bags Full" was very enjoyable, and needs to have a sequel. Who'd've thought, a story about sheep could be cool. I just finished reading "Skeleton Key"(grate book, but a little out of date) and a few things synced up with some of the vine activity going on: *The entry for the WELL (starring our own marye) mentions the BCT '86 run of shows at which marye and David Gans handed out flyers for the GD conferences on the WELL - which is why the entire run is being vined even as we speak. We should all "whine" for a vine covering the Kaiser 11/20, 21, 22/85 run, in the balcony of which marye and Gans had the "lightbulb" moment of creating a Dead zone in cyberspace (note that marye has in fact played a part in creating a world, therefore = goddess). *There is a William & Mary '73 vine starting up - one of these shows (9/11/73) was the first GD show that Bruce Hornsby attended. He went on to start a band with his brother that played Dead covers, and from there...ended up playing with a Dead band that does Dylan covers! *In one of the appendices there is a list of Jim Powell's dozen favorite "Dark Stars". One of these is included in another vine just getting started, the Boston Ark '69 vine (4/22). Several other listed "Dunkelstern"s have been vined, although only the '91 DSB vine with the 9/10 MSG show appears to still be active. *This isn't vine-related, just an amusing coincidence: Several days ago I received a private message here with the very gracious offer of a place to stay in Chicago during my upcoming visit to see the Dead at Rosemont (I have been unable to reply to this offer yet, due to an extended internet outage resulting from the truly hideous weather here in Louisville). I read this PM just a few minutes after reading the following riddle in "Skeleton Key": Q: How do you know that Deadheads have stayed at your house? A: They're still there. Cheers! MarkintheDark ********************************************* *********This space for rent************** *********************************************

Excellent Mark. I will have to revisit that book, been in my archives for years. Thank you,pk

Just finished DARK STAR-Its pretty cool how its just quotes about Jerry by people cose to him,Makes it an easy read. I never realized how much pressure that poor man had to endure.He was truly a rock-n-roll soldier-He never wanted to stop touring because he did'nt want to put 100+ people out of work or let down the DEADHEADS and his body was begging him to at least take a couple years off the road Maybe if he cared about himself as much as he cared about everybody else-we would still be hearing that sweet sound. It's truly sad-I miss him.

Hey Folks, Hope you'll indulge a little horn-tooting! My new book, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, was just published and I'd love you to check it out. This isn't a book about the band's history or an insiders story, etc. Those are great, but this ain't that. This is a book about going to shows, street level, pure and simple. I've gotten some good feedback on it already, but my favorite is from Dead publicist/historian Dennis McNally: "The hardest part of being the Grateful Dead’s publicist was convincing the media that Deadheads were diverse, thoughtful, and not infrequently accomplished. If I’d just had a copy of Growing Up Dead, I could have simply handed it out. The Deadhead subculture was rich and fascinating, and this book is a terrific documentation of it.” In support of the book, I've got interviews lined up on the Tales from the Golden Road show on the G.D. Sirius channel and also on the G.D. Hour with David Gans. Got some readings & stuff too. I'd like to pop a note in here and there & hopefully meet some people along the road. First stop is in Albany this spring, same night as the Dead plays there, at an art gallery just down the street. Fri, April 17, 5:30. Amrose Sable Gallery, 306 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. Hit the reading, then hit the show (that's what I'm doing!) You can check out the book at Amazon etc. (tho I hope your local indie bookstore will carry it too!) Thanks everyone... love to hear from you if & when you crack the spine & look inside... Peter Conners www.peterconners.com the storyteller makes no choice...

HiI was just reading the previous post. I'm going to have to own that book. Meanwhile--here is the blurberino from mine-- FREAKED, by J.T. Dutton – YA – Humor, Coming of Age –Set in the mid-nineties. Prep school student and ardent fan of the Grateful Dead, 15 year old Scotty Douglas Loveletter road trips to the most unforgettable show of his life. HarperTeen March 17, 2009 You can read some of it on Amazon. It's fiction, but I'm guessing people will find a lot of truth in it. Jen Dutton

I probably should have said that people MIGHT find some truth in it. I sounded a little arrogant to myself there.

I wrote a book about my 30 years touring with the Dead: "Going Down the Road Feeling Glad" Can I donate a copy to the Grateful Dead Library? If so, how? The Grateful Fred

is a figure of speech, pretty much, but UC Santa Cruz has the Dead Archive and might like a copy for that!

I just finished reading Peter Conner's book Growing Up Dead and I really liked it. It bought back a billion memories but it also took me farther/further than my own Dead experiences on a journey of vicarious good times. It' recalls both the late era Dead scene and the music/philosophy that proceeded it as well as how teen rebellion is inspired, cultivated, and turned into something beautiful when it moves along to music.I'd give it about twenty-three stars, with twenty stars the most a book can earn.

Tiger Lilly,Thanks for the great book tip! I've heeded a lot of the recommendations on this thread, with the rationale that grate taste in music might imply grate taste in literature. So far, so good! I'm just a little bit of a way into Three Bags Full, and it is totally delightful. Thanks again for bringing this delightful flock of sheep into my world!

Hey now, Peter Conners,Job well done! I just finished and greatly enjoyed your book. I was struck by the fact that, although I didn't become a DH until I was 46 (better late than never, right?), so much of what you said still resonated for me. The Dead playing in my head all the time thing has me debating whether or not I should get an Ipod - or do I already have something better hardwired in my brain? It sounds like you have often felt like an outcast - hope you feel like you've found a bit of community here at Deadnet; it's a pretty nice place :)

Hey Now - thanks Jen and Rosa for your comments on Growing Up Dead! Great to know the book is reaching people & bringing back good memories. Definitely a good community here that extends the reach of the parking lot for miles and miles and miles... Cheers, Peter the storyteller makes no choice...

the storyteller makes no choice... I'm happy to say that my very own "Head Set" airs tomorrow (7/3) on the G.D. channel on Sirius/XM! I read short sections from my new book, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, and put together some other intros to accompany the tunes. All the songs are from shows between 1987-1989. The show airs tomorrow (7/3) at 5PM EST. For Sirius/XM subscribers, the Grateful Dead channel is #32. Cheers, Peter

Has anyone read this recent Jerry biog. Any good? Jerry Garcia: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) (Hardcover) by Jacqueline Edmondson (Author) April 2009 also this Jerry Garcia: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) (Hardcover) by Jacqueline Edmondson (Author) Feb 2009

Jerry Garica...sorry!

the other book I meant to ask about was Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia by Robert Greenfield (Paperback - Feb 10, 2009)

came out not long after Jerry's death, so this must be a reissue. I haven't read it; as I recall it's fairly respected.

I have Dark Star and it is not a hatchet job-it is interesting how people view the same events and times so differently. I know he could be very difficult but please a man that ill and he is not using a CPAP machine for his sleep apnea? A health resort admits him and doesn't have a doctor on premises or doesn't insist on a physical? Way too soon Way too soon And the road goes on forever.... BobbaLee

Just finished Peter Connors' book - really enjoyed it. Definitely evokes the spirit and atmosphere of the shows, inside and out (that's inside the venue and outside in the lot, AND inside one's LSD-enhanced headspace and out!). Thanks for a good read.

Also recently read Carol Brightman's book - it looks at the Dead and the scene around them from a more socio-political perspective, which is interesting and at times enlightening. It certainly goes off on long excursions into the author's own experiences as a political activist in the 60s and beyond, but it all ends up tying together pretty well. Not mind candy but enjoyable nonetheless, and certainly interesting. Anyone read that "Dead and Philosophy" book? I'm tempted but honestly it seems a little hokey. If I find it used somewhere I'll probably pick it up, but wondering what people have thought about it.

I haven't read the whole thing, but editor Steve Gimbel's essay is great. He examines whether the parking lot vending scene is a critique of pure capitalism or an instance of it. The author did time as a vendor, so his perspective is from the trenches. I enjoyed it! And Bud Fairlamb's essay cites my books a lot, so of course I like that one, too :^) Gans/GD Hour blog
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HI-- A friend recently made a video trailer for my Grateful Dead inspired Young Adult book. If you have a second, take a look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6FuxGfiVgY Jen

For all you heads in the academy, and for those of us struggling to follow along, I wanted to share my excitement at a new publication: The Grateful Dead in Concert: Essays on Live Improvisation Jim Tuedio, Stan Spector, eds http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4357-4 My partner, Brent Wood, contributed an essay entitled "The Eccentric Revolutions of Phil Lesh". It is a great piece of work and feels good to see it in print after hours of conversation, listening and writing. He's already published an essay on Robert Hunter's poetry and psychedelic experience and is currently tackling the subject of Jerry & tragedy. These pieces will hopefully appear as a whole book in future. This book is carefully put together with foreword by Stanley Krippner and contributions by the editors, Gimbel, Merriwether... the usual suspects and many others. Great writing, nice organization (tuning, first, 2nd, 3rd sets, encore...) and good ideas! Reads like a good show. Enjoy!

I just ordered a book by Sam Cutler about his days managing the Grateful Dead and the Stones. Should be a interesting read. The book is called: You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates. I found it on Amazon.

Sam Cutler is doing a North America tour of book-signings and readings of his recently-released book. The book is on available at Amazon and is also on i-tunes as an i-phone ap, read in its entirety in his own voice. A simultaneous release like this is a publishing-industry first. Tonight he is in Portland, where he will do readings as well as signing the book at Powell’s Books on Hawthorne at 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd . He's a wonderfully engaging man- I highly recommended that anyone in the area go, and meet him in person!

Thank you marye!!~SAM CUTLER'S 2010 SPRING BOOK TOUR~ North America MEDFORD, OR -Thursday 15-April After today, there will be signed books on hand at Barnes & Noble- 1400 Biddle Road, Medford, OR SACRAMENTO, CA -Friday 16-April After today, there will be signed books on hand at Barnes & Noble Doubleday / Downtown Plaza- 545 Downtown Plaza Suite 1095, Sacramento, CA Call-in Radio show -Sunday 18-April, 1:00p.m. to 3:00pm David Gans, Tales from the Golden Road, The Grateful Dead Channel, on SiriusXM (satellite radio) Live Radio interview -Sunday 18-April, 10:30pm to 11:30pm WGN Radio Chicago, The Nick Digilio Show Host: Nick Digilio Live Radio interview -Tuesday 20-April, 12:00noon to 12:30pm CKLU Sudbury, Canada – Brent Holland Radio Show Host/producer: Brent Holland, This nonprofit show broadcasts to National College Radio system (80 stations) BEREKELY, CA -Tuesday 20-April, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Pat of I-House’s “Music Without Borders” series Free admission and open to the public- Onstage interview with Tim Lynch, KPIG 1510-AM radio personality, followed by a Q&A and book signing. UC Berkeley International House 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA Live Radio interview -Wednesday 21-April, 7:05pm (9:05pm CT) KFAB NEWS RADIO, 1110AM, Omaha, NB SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Wednesday 21-April, 2:00pm Dual Book signing with Robert Altman Connor Fennessy Art 801 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA SONOMA, CA -Wednesday 21-April, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Book signing Readers Books 130 E. Napa St., Sonoma, CA LOS ANGELES, CA -Sunday, 23-April After today the following will have signed books on hand: Book Soup 8818 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069 -Saturday 24-April After today the following will have signed books on hand: Barnes & Noble / Santa Monica 1201 Third Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA Barnes & Noble / Grove at Farmers Market 189 Grove Drive Suite K 30 Los Angeles, CA Barnes & Noble / Studio City 12136 Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA Barnes & Noble / Encino 16461 Ventura Boulevard Encino, CA Live author i-chat (for i-phone app) -Sunday 25-April, 6:00pm CYInterview via Skype with host Chris Yandek Live radio phone interview -Monday, 26-April, 09:05am to 09:25am WJBC FM, Bloomington, IL Host: Ron Ross TORONTO, Canada -Tuesday 27-April Live TV interview 7:40am CTV-Canada AM NEW YORK, NY -Thursday, 29-April Multiple live radio interviews, 8:00am-11:00am Premiere Radio Network On-air radio tour Walk thru of Grateful Dead exhibit, 12:00pm to 1pm New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY Book presentation and signing, 7:30pm Barnes & Noble/ Lincoln Triangle 1972 Broadway at 66th Street New York, NY AND ~ONWARD~ TO EUROPE!

the I-House one next week. This book is getting really good buzz and I'm anxious to check it out.

Will Sam actually be in Toronto? If so, will he be making any public appearances? I'd be very interested, especially if there's an evening talk or some opportunity to meet him. Thanks, Kirsten

and I heartily recommend checking this out if Sam's in your town. He's got some fabulous tales and, as he says, a distance of 40 years to put them in perspective. I have to admit my favorite is the one of Mick Jagger squelching a ballistic Bill Graham. I am no fan of Mick, but, priceless.

found a small typo in Sam's schedule- The 23rd is of course, Friday (tomorrow) not Sunday- A repost follows. unless you can edit the original mayre.. ? :-).. in which case please delete THESE lol!

~SAM CUTLER'S 2010 SPRING BOOK TOUR~North America MEDFORD, OR -Thursday 15-April After today, there will be signed books on hand at Barnes & Noble- 1400 Biddle Road, Medford, OR SACRAMENTO, CA -Friday 16-April After today, there will be signed books on hand at Barnes & Noble Doubleday / Downtown Plaza- 545 Downtown Plaza Suite 1095, Sacramento, CA Call-in Radio show -Sunday 18-April, 1:00p.m. to 3:00pm David Gans, Tales from the Golden Road, The Grateful Dead Channel, on SiriusXM (satellite radio) Live Radio interview -Sunday 18-April, 10:30pm to 11:30pm WGN Radio Chicago, The Nick Digilio Show Host: Nick Digilio Live Radio interview -Tuesday 20-April, 12:00noon to 12:30pm CKLU Sudbury, Canada – Brent Holland Radio Show Host/producer: Brent Holland, This nonprofit show broadcasts to National College Radio system (80 stations) BEREKELY, CA -Tuesday 20-April, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Pat of I-House’s “Music Without Borders” series Free admission and open to the public- Onstage interview with Tim Lynch, KPIG 1510-AM radio personality, followed by a Q&A and book signing. UC Berkeley International House 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA Live Radio interview -Wednesday 21-April, 7:05pm (9:05pm CT) KFAB NEWS RADIO, 1110AM, Omaha, NB SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Wednesday 21-April, 2:00pm Dual Book signing with Robert Altman Connor Fennessy Art 801 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA SONOMA, CA -Wednesday 21-April, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Book signing Readers Books 130 E. Napa St., Sonoma, CA LOS ANGELES, CA -Friday, 23-April After today the following will have signed books on hand: Book Soup 8818 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069 -Saturday 24-April After today the following will have signed books on hand: Barnes & Noble / Santa Monica 1201 Third Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA Barnes & Noble / Grove at Farmers Market 189 Grove Drive Suite K 30 Los Angeles, CA Barnes & Noble / Studio City 12136 Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA Barnes & Noble / Encino 16461 Ventura Boulevard Encino, CA Live author i-chat (for i-phone app) -Sunday 25-April, 6:00pm CYInterview via Skype with host Chris Yandek Live radio phone interview -Monday, 26-April, 09:05am to 09:25am WJBC FM, Bloomington, IL Host: Ron Ross TORONTO, Canada -Tuesday 27-April Live TV interview 7:40am CTV-Canada AM NEW YORK, NY -Thursday, 29-April Multiple live radio interviews, 8:00am-11:00am Premiere Radio Network On-air radio tour Walk thru of Grateful Dead exhibit, 12:00pm to 1pm New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY Book presentation and signing, 7:30pm Barnes & Noble/ Lincoln Triangle 1972 Broadway at 66th Street New York, NY AND ~ONWARD~ TO EUROPE!

to just keep the new version too. Hope the rest of the tour goes great! Tuesday was sure fun.

After reading the book and then going to a local reading/signing, I think I may have to get Sam Cutler's book on I-tunes~ It's just SO wonderful to hear him read these amazing stories in his own deep, British-accented voice!!

I'm reading the book now, but I'm thinking the same way. The things you learn. I had no idea, for example, that the egregious Lenny Hart was involved in a Jesus cult at the time he was ripping off the band. (Let's just say those were strange times.) But I asked around and so it was!

Feed Your Head: San Francisco's Psychedelic Rock Revolution: From the Acid Tests to Altamont (Paperback) ~ Blair Jackson (Author) Product description from Amazon In the mid- and late 1960s, San Francisco was the epicentre of a cultural and musical revolution which is still reverberating to this day. It was the place where the carefully cultivated American Dream of an ever-expanding conformist commercial culture slammed headlong into the day-glo visions and utopian ideals of a young generation that suddenly did not want to play by the old rules, but instead wanted to create something bold, beautiful and new. The musical soundtrack for the counterculture that formed in Haight-Ashbury (and in other cities across the country) was also startlingly new and different - it took elements of rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, jazz, Indian and seemingly a hundred other influences, and combined them in a rich psychedelic stew that was unlike anything the world had ever heard before. "Feed Your Head! San Francisco's Psychedelic Rock Revolution: From the Acid Tests to Altamont" traces the rise of the Bay Area music underground through five of the original bands: Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin and Country Joe & the Fish. Using the popular 'day-by-day' format of previous Jawbone titles, author Blair Jackson offers a compelling look at not only the work of those seminal bands during that important period, but also other important groups in the surrounding scene, and broader cultural themes including the spread of psychedelic drugs, youth's resistance to the War in Vietnam, and the 'straight' world's response to the hippie revolution. "Feed Your Head" is a detailed, colourful, and occasionally funny book that is certain to appeal to fans of San Francisco rock, or the '60s in general. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

Altamont as end point. I wasn't there, but I have friends that were. I would like to hear what Blair's thoughts are as using this as a bookend for a period. To me the music never stopped, members of all of the bands featured are still active. I guess you have to mark some type of end to the book, but this music was just starting to flow out to many of us around the country and change where we were at, many of us were younger and there was a time lag between what was happening around the bay area and when it started to have a deeper influence for many of us. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

The Dead Book by Hank HarrisonFamily Album by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius Offical Book of the Dead Heads Playing in the Band by Gans and Simon Grateful Dead Anthology Vol.II Grateful Dead Songbook (This is my favorite)

Hey there. My name is Leslie and I wanted to post about my stepfather's e-book titled The Temple of the Heart. My stepfather, Richard A. Anderson, was a huge fan of the Grateful Dead. He passed away in 2002 after a long bout with diabetes. However, I managed to get his manuscript published after his death, and it's available as an ebook. In it, he chronicles his trips to see the Grateful Dead at Winterland, on his path to self-discovery.The Temple of the Heart page on my website has buy links for his novel. Visit my site for details at http://www.lesliesoule.com -Leslie D. Soule

Is this the thread where I can blatantly self-promote my own fictionalized account of 10 plus years of following the Dead, "The Hallucinogenic Bible", in which I discuss the Dead and its role as a religion. Music, religion, road trips, drugs, cops, all that and more. Available as an e-book only on Amazon Kindle, if interested. J.T. Gossard http://thehallucinogenicbible.blogspot.com/

the thread! Your Own Storefront also an OK place...

any one ever heard the aoxomoxoa released from europe. different takes and all from US version!

New book coming out! looks interesting... http://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Dead-FAQ-Greatest-History/dp/0879309814 Not sure on a release date though.

I Learned From the Grateful Dead by my pal Barry Barnes, who is a business professor of some repute. You can find out about this on his Facebook page.

coming out in October: Paul Grushkin (author of The Official Book of the Dead Heads) has a new book featuring those illustrated envelopes into which Heads poured their creative hearts and souls before sending them off to the ticket office. The ticket office ladies, Steve Marcus, et al., fortunately saved them and now they're in the Grateful Dead Archive. And people are still sending gorgeous creations to GDTS Too. The book will be in the Store here in due course, but if you'd like to keep up with the happenings in the meantime, feel free to check out our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dead-Letters/123073284439947 where we're posting some of the envelopes a little early... Thanks!

Hey there. My name is Leslie Soule. I'm looking for people to review my stepfather's semi-autobiographical novel titled The Temple of The Heart - set in the 70s, it's about a monk who leaves the monastery to pursue life in all its glory. Also, it's about my stepfather's experiences seeing Grateful Dead shows and going to Winterland. If anyone's interested, I'll send the PDF of the novel. You can contact me by e-mail at falcondraco@hotmail.com, or through my website. Leslie Soule www.lesliesoule.com

Congrats on the sure-to-be surefire bestsellerThanks!

I got Hank Harrison's Book of the Dead when I was a Freshman in college in 1972 - it came with a flimsy 45 rpm record of Neal Cassady holding court which is long since gone. It is a book that I understood more as time went on.

First of all, hey, we're in the Dead.net Store now, available for preorder, and should be shipping soon as the books are now shipping from the publisher's warehouse. Check it out! And second of all, check out our Facebook page, because Steven Marcus has unearthed the video of his long-lost 1986 interview with Jerry, in the ticket office, there for your viewing pleasure...

I had a copy some number of years ago that got lost in one of my many moves. I've since collected many other Dead related books but I would LOVE to have another copy of Goin Down The Road by Blair Jackson if I remember correctly. If anyone has a copy that they wouldn't mind relinquishing send me a PM and we can work something out!Thank you very much to anyone who reads this and to anyone who even thinks of responding! CosmicDavid

Would love to replace some of my long lost golden road issues. I do see them on ebay but if anyone wants to part with a large chunk send me a PM