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Living With the Dead by David Dalton, Rock Scully (1995, Audio Cassette) 
Living With the Dead by David Dalton, Rock Scully (1995, Audio Cassette)
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Publication Date: 1995-12-01
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 1570423717
ISBN-13: 9781570423710
Product ID: EPID1781319
Description: In the riveting memoir LIVING WITH THE DEAD, ex-tour manager Rock Scully, a Grateful Dead lifer, synthesizes his memories with co-writer David Dalton's journalistic expertise for something loosely resembling a chronicle of decades of ser...
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Synopsis
In the riveting memoir LIVING WITH THE DEAD, ex-tour manager Rock Scully, a Grateful Dead lifer, synthesizes his memories with co-writer David Dalton's journalistic expertise for something loosely resembling a chronicle of decades of service to rock & roll. The subjects being the Dead, authentic memories of events are hard to come by, so the authors opt instead for a kind of composite narrative of the band's adventures, which include entertaining underage groupies, dosing Bavarian firemen with acid, and of course consuming copious quantities of drugs. Scully's vantage point in the band's hierarchy makes for a riotously entertaining book; there are road crew stories, performance stories, the aforementioned drug stories, and even an account of Beatle George Harrison's 1967 visit to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. While you wouldn't want to take any of this stuff as gospel, Scully and Dalton succeed in conveying some sense of what it must have been like to be in the Dead's inner circle for three decades, and in expressing some of the obvious camaraderie and hippie idealism that kept the band together through good times and bad.

Details
Publication Date:1995-12-01
Narrated by:Rock Scully

Size
Height:7.0 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Publisher's Note
The Grateful Dead's longtime manager provides an entertaining eyewitness account of the band's behind-the-scenes history, from the writing of their greatest songs and their legendary encounters with other celebrities to their emergence as cultural icons. Simultaneous.

Industry Reviews
"An extraordinarily candid picture of the band's rollicking times."
Fukuyama

"The first real insider look behind the scenes with the Dead."
Fukuyama

"Interesting drugged-out memories from the original manager of the infamous hippie rock group."
Kirkus Reviews (11/01/1995)

"Scully and co-writer David Dalton...skillfully capture the excitement of the early days, when the band came together to pioneer a mix of psychedelic improvisation and the American roots of jazz, blues, folk and bluegrass."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Regan McMahon (12/09/1995)

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