{"title":"Grateful Dead Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrateful Dead books, biographies, and photo collections. Band histories, tour journals, and behind-the-scenes accounts from 60 years of the Dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking for rare literary editions or official gift books? See \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/grateful-dead-literary-rarities-scholars-caucus\"\u003eGrateful Dead Literary Rarities\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/grateful-dead-official-gift-editions\"\u003eGrateful Dead Official Gift Editions\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-silver-snarling-trumpet-the-birth-of-the-grateful-dead-the-lost-manuscript-of-robert-hunter-paperback","title":"The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Mayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eDennis McNally\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s--a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of \"the scene\" in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Strange to think back on those days when it was perfectly natural that we all slept on the floor in one small room ... 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Witness impromptu jams, inspired intellectual pranks, and a dialogue that is, by turns, amusing and brilliant and outrageous. Hunter shares his impressions of his first gig with Garcia for a college audience, along with descriptions of his most intense dreams and psychedelic explorations. All of it, enlivened by Hunter's visionary spirit and profound ideas about creativity and collaboration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The lost manuscript is augmented with a Foreword by John Mayer, an Introduction by Dennis McNally, and an Afterword by Brigid Meier, who was part of their scene in the San Francisco Bay Area that served as a bridge from the beatniks to the hippies. Also included is Hunter's own 1982 assessment of his work--about how he shared it with close confidants but then decided to leave it unpublished. 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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, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes. \u003cbr\u003eDennis McNally, the band's historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead's history in \"A Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band's intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Dead's early days in late-sixties San Francisco-an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Kesey's acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley \"Bear\" Stanley, andperforming the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. 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