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

    The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ 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 “Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixties’ roots and folk scene, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0767911865
    • ASIN: 0767911865
    • ISBN: 0767911865
    • Brand: Three Rivers Press CA
    • Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

  • This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead

    In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band’s story through the words of its members, their creative collaborators and peers, and a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices into a seamless oral tapestry. Capturing the ebullient spirit at the group’s core, Jackson and Gans weave together a musical saga that examines the music and subculture that developed into its own economy, touching fans from all walks of life, from penniless hippies to celebrities, and at least one U.S. v... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250058562
    • ASIN: 1250058562
    • ISBN: 9781250058560
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

  • Conversations with the Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book

    A collection of interviews—some vintage, some recent, and some brand-new—Conversations with the Dead is the first (and only) book in which the Grateful Dead speak in their own words about their music and their lives. David Gans, a self-professed Deadhead and host of "The Grateful Dead Hour," asked Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and the rest of the band the questions their fans would have asked if given the chance. And Gans reaches far beyond the musicians, talking with such often-overlooked key players as the recording engineer, sound man, and road crew—those who have had the coveted opportunit... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0306810999
    • ASIN: 0306810999
    • ISBN: 0306810999
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

  • Eyes of the World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965-1995

    Eyes of the World: Grateful Dead Photography 1965 – 1995 is a fine art, hardcover coffee table photography book that brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive collection of photographs from a wide range of photographers whose work has captured the Grateful Dead at different times throughout their career.Features 220 images across 272 pages in a 12” x 12” book that weighs a hefty six pounds!Shocking as it may seem -- particularly given the unparalleled job the band’s shepherds have done in documenting its history -- until now there has been no definitive visual reference enco... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 099653699X
    • ASIN: 099653699X
    • ISBN: 9780996536998
    • Brand: Rock Out Books
    • Manufacturer: Rock Out Books

  • Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead

    The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems and fan recordings, they were forward-thinking champions of artistic control and outlaw artists who marched to the beat of their own drums.In the New York Times bestseller Deal, Bill Kreutzmann, one of their founding members and drummer for every one of their over 2,300 concerts has written an unfli... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250033799
    • ASIN: 1250033799
    • ISBN: 9781250033796
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • Grateful Dead Family Album

    A treasure trove of memorabilia, photos and writings, the Grateful Dead Family Album is both a candid family history of one of America's most enduring rock bands and a priceless time capsule of '60s rock culture and counterculture. Filled with anecdotes and never-before-seen photos of the most famous personalities of the time, compiled by a band insider.The long strange trip continues -- for the 30th anniversary of the original publication, author Jerilyn Lee Brandelius presents the timeless story about one of the greatest bands to ever walk this earth.

    • ASIN: 0867198737
    • ASIN: 0867198737
    • ISBN: 0867198737
    • Manufacturer: Last Gasp

  • Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

    A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia's vision for the group, the surviving "Core Four," as they came to be called, were reduced to conflicting agendas, strained relationships, and catastrophic business decisions ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0306903059
    • ASIN: 0306903059
    • ISBN: 0306903059
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

  • Between the Dark and Light: The Grateful Dead Photography of Jay Blakesberg

    (Book). Between the Dark and Light presents an astonishing array of images that capture the musical, cultural, and personal magic of the Grateful Dead. Now in paperback with 16 pages of new photographs, this acclaimed book showcases more than 900 rich color and black-and-white photos that bring the Grateful Dead experience to life. Accompanying the photos are essays by Dead historians Blair Jackson and J.C. Juanis and rock photographer Jon Sievert, a foreword by Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, and photographer Jay Blakesberg's own reflections. From Blakesberg's travels following the Dead in t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0879308141
    • UPC: 073999921816
    • ASIN: 0879308141
    • ISBN: 0879308141
    • Brand: Brand: Backbeat Books
    • Manufacturer: Backbeat Books

  • Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

    In this ruthlessly honest bestseller, the bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. of photos.

    • ASIN: 0316154490
    • ASIN: 0316154490
    • ISBN: 0316154490
    • Brand: Lesh, Phil
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • Living with the Dead:: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead

    This memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

    • ASIN: 0815411634
    • UPC: 683865011635
    • ASIN: 0815411634
    • ISBN: 0815411634
    • Manufacturer: Cooper Square Press

  • Garcia : An American Life

    He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock 'n' roll bands in history. Now, Blair Jackson, who covered the Grateful Dead for twenty-five years, gives us an unparalleled portrait of Garcia--the musical genius, the brilliant songwriter, and ultimately, the tortured soul plagued by his own addiction. With more than forty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, Garcia: An American L... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140291997
    • ASIN: 0140291997
    • ISBN: 0140291997
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded about Love and Haight (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

    The Grateful Dead and Philosophy contains essays from 20 professional philosophers whose love of the Dead's music and scene have led them to reflect on different philosophical questions that have arisen from the enigma that is the Grateful Dead. Coming at the Dead from a variety of perspectives, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, this book considers how the group fits into the broader trends of American thought running through pragmatism and the Beat poets. There's a pertinent analysis of how the parking lot scene with its tie-dyed t-shirt and veggie burrito vendors was both a rejection ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0812696239
    • ASIN: 0812696239
    • ISBN: 0812696239
    • Brand: Brand: Open Court
    • Manufacturer: Open Court

  • Back from the Dead

    This inspiring memoir from sports and cultural icon Bill Walton recounts his devastating injuries and amazing recoveries, set in the context of his UCLA triumphs under John Wooden, his storied NBA career, and his affinity for music and the Grateful Dead.In February 2008, Bill Walton suffered a catastrophic spinal collapse—the culmination of a lifetime of injuries—that left him unable to move. He spent three years on the floor of his house, eating his meals there and crawling to the bathroom, where he could barely hoist himself up onto the toilet. The excruciating pain and slow recovery tes... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1476716862
    • ASIN: 1476716862
    • ISBN: 1476716862
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead


    • ASIN: 031230353X
    • ASIN: 031230353X
    • ISBN: 031230353X
    • Brand: St. Martin's Press
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead

    Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes of live Grateful Dead concerts. A teenager living in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, he became exposed to an entirely new way of life, and friends who were enjoying more freedom and less parental guidance. At the age of 16, he attended his first Grateful Dead concert on June 30, 1987 - he was ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0306817330
    • ASIN: 0306817330
    • ISBN: 0306817330
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

  • Home Before Daylight : My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

    Home Before Daylight: My Life On The Road With The Grateful

    • UPC: 400773394
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead : My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead

    A memoir by one of the Grateful Dead's founding members shares insights into their improvisational style, their survival of shared and personal tragedies, and their collaborations with a wide range of fellow

    • UPC: 43582800
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Very Best of Grateful Dead (Paperback)

    (Easy Guitar). Dead heads and budding guitar players everywhere will rejoice for this collection of 17 classics from the Grateful Dead's best-selling album for easy guitar. Includes: Box of Rain * Casey Jones * Estimated

    • UPC: 42156660

  • Searching for the Sound : My Life with the Grateful Dead

    In this ruthlessly honest bestseller, the bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead. of

    • UPC: 4430319
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead - eBook

    The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam

    • UPC: 197443760
    • Rating: 4.0

  • No Simple Highway : A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead

    For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why--and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research,

    • UPC: 46591315

  • Legends of Rock & Roll: The Grateful Dead - eBook

    "What a long, strange trip its been."Welcome to another in the Legends of Rock & Roll series.The Legends of Rock & Roll series is about the music we have listened to over the past fifty

    • UPC: 561822428

  • Live dabei - Mein Leben mit den Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead und anderen verrückten Gestalten - eBook

    Er war mittendrin, und er kannte sie alle. Mit diesem Buch lässt Tour-Manager Sam Cutler die 1960er und 1970er wieder lebendig werden: die Anfangszeit der großen Open Air-Festivals, die ersten großen Erfolge der Rolling Stones

    • UPC: 492043040

  • So Many Roads : The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead

    An all-encompassing narrative portrait of the iconic mid-twentieth-century band draws on interviews with its surviving members to trace its origins, eclectic sound, influence and struggles in the years after Jerry Garcia's

    • UPC: 43768112
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Dead Reckonings : The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead

    Photos, memoirs, magazine stories and cartoons tracing the career of the ebullient psychedelic band from its mid-1960's genesis to guitarist Jerry Garcia's death at a California drug treatment facility in 1995. 50

    • UPC: 52853429

  • Vintage Liquid Blue Grateful Dead Is Better Life is Good Parody T Shirt Distress

    • UPC: 183948098101
    • Category: T-Shirts
    • Price: 39 USD

  • The History of the Grateful Dead

    Grateful Dead - NBC "Time and Again" (Documentary) circa 2000

    Tie Died Grateful Dead Parking Lot Scene Documentary