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  • Robert M. Petersen: Far Away Radios — Second Printing Chapbook (Grateful Dead Productions)
  • Robert M. Petersen: Far Away Radios — Second Printing Chapbook (Grateful Dead Productions)

Far Away Radios by Robert Petersen & Cover by Stanley Mouse (Second Printing, Softcover)

$ 150.00
$ 150.00
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The Book Dead Collectors Can't Find

Robert M. "Bobby" Petersen's first published chapbook, Far Away Radios, holds a singular place in the literature surrounding the Grateful Dead. Copies of the first printing are essentially unheard of; copies of this second printing are nearly as scarce. Relix is honored to offer the final copies. 

A close friend of Phil Lesh and Alan Trist, Petersen was one of the earliest and most steadfast champions of the band's vision, and the most seriously regarded poet in the Dead's orbit, a living link to the older San Francisco Bay Area poetry tradition. This chapbook contains two of his most deeply felt elegies: "For Janis," a tribute to Janis Joplin, and "He Was A Friend of Mine," a farewell to Pigpen. It also points to the lyrics that would define his legacy: "New Potato Caboose," "Pride of Cucamonga," "Unbroken Chain," and his final, unrecorded lyric, "Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues," performed only once. Moved were the Dead by Petersen's work, which Grateful Dead Productions privately financed for this second printing as a tribute to their longtime friend. 


Details: Chapbook. Softbound. Octavo, 31 pp., unnumbered. 2nd printing. Cover by Stanley Mouse. Privately published, financed by Grateful Dead Productions. Fine condition; some minor spotting to front flyleaves, as is common with this edition.