Grateful dead biography book

“Be careful of what you wish for – you might just get it.”   And I did…no regrets. After wanting to write the history of the Grateful Dead for seven years, I got to hear the words, “Jerry said, ‘Why not us?’” – which is to say, would I like to do a history of the G.D.?

Grateful dead biography book

I said I thought I could fit it in. It turned into a 22 year ride, and of course it entirely changed the course of my life.

I had a ton of material that didn’t really fit into a chronological framework, and I devised what I thought of as a hypothetical (and hyper-real) way to depict a typical year (there was such a thing) in the life of the Dead say between and   And in the course of that year I portrayed a “typical” show (I know, I know – no two shows were alike).

So here’s an imaginary – but real for all that – opening of a second set in the Fall…

Sample Chapter

Interlude: Into the Zone (Second Set Begins)

September, Madison Square Garde