Reviews the twenty-five-year history of the Grateful Dead, a rock 'n' roll institution, offering photographs along with interviews with band members, friends, and notable "Dead Heads"

One More Saturday Night: Reflections With the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads

Arts & Photography

Troy, Sandy

Music

St Martins Pr

Humor & Entertainment

This is a biography of "The Grateful Dead" founder Jerry Garcia. Written with the co-operation of Garcia, it is a warts and all story of how the San Franciscan guitarist tuned in, turned out and started a cult that has flourished and grown in America and around the world over the last 30 years. The archetypal flower-power band, "The Grateful Dead" lived on Haight Ashbury in San Francisco, dropped Acid with Ken Kesey and played at the very first Acid Tests and Golden Gate Park Love-Ins. Garcia, perhaps more than any other musician of his age, took the hippy ideology to its furthest conclusion: he experimented with the longest guitar solos in popular music history. Garcia has come close to death three times, has been in a coma for days, beaten heroin addiction and is currently rehabilitated and about to go back on the road with the Dead. His life has been one of immense flux, strife and incredible achievement. Garcia has played in front of the Great Pyramids of Egypt and been busted for drugs in his car. He has helped save acres of the Malaysian rain forest and seen friends and band mates die of drug overdoses.

Captain Trips: The Life and Fast Times of Jerry Garcia

Biographies & Memoirs

Virgin Books

Tracing the life of a cultural icon and popular music legend, the biography of Jerry Garcia, founder of the Grateful Dead, is the story of his innovative music, battle with drug addiction, and triumphant return from a near-death experience. 35,000 first printing. IP.

Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia

Thunder's Mouth Pr

Avid Dead fan and chronicler Sandy Troy probes Jerry Garcia's personal and professional life through childhood and adolescence, Summer of Love acid tests, drug busts, three marriages, a brush with death, and his comeback. Troy also traces the Dead's highs and lows and Garcia's musical relationships with songwriter Robert Hunter and other musicians in the Grateful Dead.

Da Capo Press

Jerry Garcia

Arts & Literature

Voyage

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