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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 782.421660922 EAN: 9780815411635 ISBN: 0815411634 Label: Cooper Square Press Manufacturer: Cooper Square Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 408 Publication Date: October 25, 2001 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Studio: Cooper Square Press Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Too many mistakesAfter having read this five or six years ago, and going through yet another phase of revisiting my fascination with all things Grateful Dead, I decided to read this again. I almost wrote down all the historical inaccuracies I could find, and there were about a dozen or so, if not more. It could be said that Rock Scully could be given some slack for this, but I'm left with the feeling that this was a rush job to cash in on Garcia's untimely death. That may seem harsh, but considering Scully had been ... Read More Rating:  - Unvarnished biography of The Dead -- Great!Here, Rock Scully wrote the most straightforward, hilarious, and un-egotistical biography I've ever read: The story of the Grateful Dead. Rock Scully was the manager for The Grateful Dead and he was particularly close to Jerry Garcia. This 60s San Francisco Free Love Society band made a LOT of money, most of which was converted to drugs of abuse and immediately consumed. I was especially impressed with Rock's ability to size up situations (like when a band of Arabs tried to ... Read More Rating: - NICE!My friend send this book to me as part of an ongoing thing we have with the san francisco 60's and general interest in music. i really liked the book. it was an easy read, say it was well narrated and also full of interesting little side stories about all the involved parties. i really liked that there was no attempt of pink shades, meaning that people came accross as people with short-comings, vanities, addictions and stupidity, all the while it was still funny and really, it pulled me right in and ... Read More Rating: - Fascinating bookThis story is by turns wonderful (especially early on), depressing (especially toward the end), and hilarious (pretty much throughout), but always fascinating. Years of distance from the events allows Scully be as critical of himself as anyone else, and this gives the book an authentic quality. I only know the Dead's best-known songs, and I knew almost nothing about the band or Garcia before reading this book, yet it was a page-turner for me. Other musicians and cultural figures of the era make interesting ... Read More Rating: - Read this one first...If you are wanting to read the "back story" behind the music and are just now starting your homework, let me suggest you start here. Why? Why here, when this is obviously a flawed, overly subjective work seen through a prism of chemical distortions, bringing us what are probably broken and incorrectly reassembled memories? Because this is a book you will finish. You will read this from cover to cover and most likely love it, and because this book is (more than any other out there) about the FUN of the Grateful ... Read More 
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