Book description
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. Bill Kreutzmann, one of their founding…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Deal as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the conversational style of Bill Kreutzmann’s memoir, completed just before the Fare Thee Well concerts were announced in 2015.
The mood is both of a time completed (the interim) and the tense unexpectedness just before a new age was to begin (the era of Dead and Company). His frank assessments provide a valuable viewpoint on the band’s many ups and downs, as well as an entirely unique perspective on the two-drummer dynamics. His own personal challenges, and those of his bandmates, get serious consideration.
He repeats his statement that he was the “first Deadhead”, recalling the occasion when…
From Thomas' list on the Grateful Dead and their fans.
The subtitle tells you all you really need to know. Kreutzmann was a founding member of the Grateful Dead and there for the whole long, strange trip and – to date – the only band member to pen an insider’s account of exactly what it’s like to be a member of The Grateful Dead. He tells a good story and if the Grateful Dead loom as large in your life as they do mine – well, just image a memoir written by Ringo Starr or Charlie Watts. Drummers sit there doing their stuff – and they see everything.
From Stuart's list on The Grateful Dead (from a music journalist).
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