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Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,934 ratings — published 2005
Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,173 ratings — published 2015
A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,120 ratings — published 2007
Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,178 ratings — published 2003
Garcia : An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,080 ratings — published 1999
Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,094 ratings — published 1995
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,418 ratings — published 1968
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.40 — 506 ratings — published 2015
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.66 — 833 ratings — published 2005
Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.05 — 891 ratings — published 1996
Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.89 — 817 ratings — published 2018
Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.15 — 500 ratings — published 2015
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.16 — 738 ratings — published 2015
Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.90 — 873 ratings — published 2016
Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.14 — 103 ratings — published 1985
A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.62 — 234 ratings — published 1990
The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead―The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.66 — 534 ratings — published
Mother American Night: My Life and Crazy Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.18 — 784 ratings — published 2018
Dancing with the Dead--A Photographic Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.09 — 123 ratings — published 2012
Harrington Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.75 — 136 ratings — published 1995
Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.79 — 495 ratings — published 2009
The American Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.25 — 52 ratings — published 1997
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.15 — 549 ratings — published 2016
Owsley and Me: My LSD Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.90 — 329 ratings — published 2013
Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.82 — 366 ratings — published 2010
Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.15 — 131 ratings — published 1994
Garcia: A Signpost To New Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.89 — 197 ratings — published 1972
Conversations with the Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.99 — 201 ratings — published 1991
Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.49 — 116 ratings — published 1998
Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.81 — 329 ratings — published 1994
Deadheads: Stories from Fellow Artists, Friends & Followers of the Grateful Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.80 — 143 ratings — published 1995
Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.04 — 263 ratings — published
Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.34 — 134 ratings — published 2003
No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.07 — 320 ratings — published 2015
Grateful Dead Gear: The Band's Instruments, Sound Systems, and Recording Sessions from 1965 to 1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.30 — 47 ratings — published 2006
Grateful Dead Scrapbook: The Long, Strange Trip in Stories, Photos, and Memorabilia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.22 — 65 ratings — published 2009
Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.95 — 147 ratings — published 1991
Goin' Down The Road: A Grateful Dead Traveling Companion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.06 — 65 ratings — published 1992
Grateful Dead: The Official Book of the Deadheads (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.92 — 99 ratings — published 1983
Drumming at the Edge of Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.22 — 414 ratings — published 1990
Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.39 — 564 ratings — published
The Deadhead's Taping Compendium, Volume 1: An In-Depth Guide to the Music of the Grateful Dead on Tape, 1959-1974 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.75 — 32 ratings — published 1998
Dead to the Core: An Almanack of the Grateful Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.02 — 42 ratings — published 1997
The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded about Love and Haight (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.59 — 75 ratings — published 2007
Grateful Dead: What a Long, Strange Trip: The Stories Behind Every Song 1965-1995 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.71 — 31 ratings — published 1999
Dead Letters: The Very Best Grateful Dead Fan Mail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.38 — 34 ratings — published 2011
The Grateful Dead Reader (Readers on American Musicians)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 3.86 — 57 ratings — published 2000
The Grateful Dead Family Album (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.05 — 57 ratings — published 1989
One Source Disticor Rolling Stone Special A, 1 EA (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.40 — 20 ratings — published 2013
Why the Grateful Dead Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grateful-dead)
avg rating 4.03 — 66 ratings — published 2016
“For me, making a record is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live music is like being in a rowboat in the ocean.”
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“Not knowing how he had come to sit behind the steering wheel, he considered driving into town for help but was too fucked up to walk much less commandeer Emma’s truck. The hike into the canyon where her body would be—500 feet beneath the Claw and at least a 90-minute jog from the truck—was too much to consider, the stream requiring being forded at least a dozen times. Paralyzed by indecision and the horror of seeing her jump, he pounded the steering wheel with palms, tears soaking his face, collecting like dew drops in the wiry strands of his beard. “What the fuck? What the fucking fuck? Goddammit Emma…”
Desiring nothing other than to have her back, he felt the urge to lie down on the seat and cry himself into oblivion, having no more control over himself than he had over the way Powerball had spun the universe, spitting out random equations from a spinning cage. So maybe, his mind conspired, she didn’t jump and was still wandering around the Claw, lost, searching him out. But the image of her stretching her arms wide and leaping was crystalline in its authenticity, tangible and substantial.
She’s not here. The voice returned, stripping earthly context from reality. Go look somewhere else.
“...the other half found me stumbling around and drunk on burgundy wine,” the tape player shattered his thoughts as though someone had thrown a large rock through the windshield, the engine suddenly idling. Like it just happened on its own, there was no way he’d touched the key. Fumbling for the cassette deck’s knobs, he watched his hand disappear into the dash, lacking mass or substance, sensation, an immaterial thing dangling uselessly from the end of his arm. Outside the truck, the mountain and trees pivoted, the world turning on a spindle, the turnout giving way to the meadow and the rutted path back to the gate. Gooch watched the speedometer needle bounce back and forth, wind tumbling the dashboard trash and debris so that everything danced against the windshield in time to the music.
“I’ll get up and fly away….”
― A Rare and Different Tune: Book Two in the Powerball Trilogy
Desiring nothing other than to have her back, he felt the urge to lie down on the seat and cry himself into oblivion, having no more control over himself than he had over the way Powerball had spun the universe, spitting out random equations from a spinning cage. So maybe, his mind conspired, she didn’t jump and was still wandering around the Claw, lost, searching him out. But the image of her stretching her arms wide and leaping was crystalline in its authenticity, tangible and substantial.
She’s not here. The voice returned, stripping earthly context from reality. Go look somewhere else.
“...the other half found me stumbling around and drunk on burgundy wine,” the tape player shattered his thoughts as though someone had thrown a large rock through the windshield, the engine suddenly idling. Like it just happened on its own, there was no way he’d touched the key. Fumbling for the cassette deck’s knobs, he watched his hand disappear into the dash, lacking mass or substance, sensation, an immaterial thing dangling uselessly from the end of his arm. Outside the truck, the mountain and trees pivoted, the world turning on a spindle, the turnout giving way to the meadow and the rutted path back to the gate. Gooch watched the speedometer needle bounce back and forth, wind tumbling the dashboard trash and debris so that everything danced against the windshield in time to the music.
“I’ll get up and fly away….”
― A Rare and Different Tune: Book Two in the Powerball Trilogy
