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Is this the thread where I can blatantly self-promote my own fictionalized account of 10 plus years of following the Dead, "The Hallucinogenic Bible", in which I discuss the Dead and its role as a religion. Music, religion, road trips, drugs, cops, all that and more. Available as an e-book only on Amazon Kindle, if interested. J.T. Gossard http://thehallucinogenicbible.blogspot.com/

Hey there. My name is Leslie and I wanted to post about my stepfather's e-book titled The Temple of the Heart. My stepfather, Richard A. Anderson, was a huge fan of the Grateful Dead. He passed away in 2002 after a long bout with diabetes. However, I managed to get his manuscript published after his death, and it's available as an ebook. In it, he chronicles his trips to see the Grateful Dead at Winterland, on his path to self-discovery.The Temple of the Heart page on my website has buy links for his novel. Visit my site for details at http://www.lesliesoule.com -Leslie D. Soule

The Dead Book by Hank HarrisonFamily Album by Jerilyn Lee Brandelius Offical Book of the Dead Heads Playing in the Band by Gans and Simon Grateful Dead Anthology Vol.II Grateful Dead Songbook (This is my favorite)

Altamont as end point. I wasn't there, but I have friends that were. I would like to hear what Blair's thoughts are as using this as a bookend for a period. To me the music never stopped, members of all of the bands featured are still active. I guess you have to mark some type of end to the book, but this music was just starting to flow out to many of us around the country and change where we were at, many of us were younger and there was a time lag between what was happening around the bay area and when it started to have a deeper influence for many of us. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

Feed Your Head: San Francisco's Psychedelic Rock Revolution: From the Acid Tests to Altamont (Paperback) ~ Blair Jackson (Author) Product description from Amazon In the mid- and late 1960s, San Francisco was the epicentre of a cultural and musical revolution which is still reverberating to this day. It was the place where the carefully cultivated American Dream of an ever-expanding conformist commercial culture slammed headlong into the day-glo visions and utopian ideals of a young generation that suddenly did not want to play by the old rules, but instead wanted to create something bold, beautiful and new. The musical soundtrack for the counterculture that formed in Haight-Ashbury (and in other cities across the country) was also startlingly new and different - it took elements of rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, jazz, Indian and seemingly a hundred other influences, and combined them in a rich psychedelic stew that was unlike anything the world had ever heard before. "Feed Your Head! San Francisco's Psychedelic Rock Revolution: From the Acid Tests to Altamont" traces the rise of the Bay Area music underground through five of the original bands: Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin and Country Joe & the Fish. Using the popular 'day-by-day' format of previous Jawbone titles, author Blair Jackson offers a compelling look at not only the work of those seminal bands during that important period, but also other important groups in the surrounding scene, and broader cultural themes including the spread of psychedelic drugs, youth's resistance to the War in Vietnam, and the 'straight' world's response to the hippie revolution. "Feed Your Head" is a detailed, colourful, and occasionally funny book that is certain to appeal to fans of San Francisco rock, or the '60s in general. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake

I'm reading the book now, but I'm thinking the same way. The things you learn. I had no idea, for example, that the egregious Lenny Hart was involved in a Jesus cult at the time he was ripping off the band. (Let's just say those were strange times.) But I asked around and so it was!

After reading the book and then going to a local reading/signing, I think I may have to get Sam Cutler's book on I-tunes~ It's just SO wonderful to hear him read these amazing stories in his own deep, British-accented voice!!

to just keep the new version too. Hope the rest of the tour goes great! Tuesday was sure fun.

~SAM CUTLER'S 2010 SPRING BOOK TOUR~North America MEDFORD, OR -Thursday 15-April After today, there will be signed books on hand at Barnes & Noble- 1400 Biddle Road, Medford, OR SACRAMENTO, CA -Friday 16-April After today, there will be signed books on hand at Barnes & Noble Doubleday / Downtown Plaza- 545 Downtown Plaza Suite 1095, Sacramento, CA Call-in Radio show -Sunday 18-April, 1:00p.m. to 3:00pm David Gans, Tales from the Golden Road, The Grateful Dead Channel, on SiriusXM (satellite radio) Live Radio interview -Sunday 18-April, 10:30pm to 11:30pm WGN Radio Chicago, The Nick Digilio Show Host: Nick Digilio Live Radio interview -Tuesday 20-April, 12:00noon to 12:30pm CKLU Sudbury, Canada – Brent Holland Radio Show Host/producer: Brent Holland, This nonprofit show broadcasts to National College Radio system (80 stations) BEREKELY, CA -Tuesday 20-April, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Pat of I-House’s “Music Without Borders” series Free admission and open to the public- Onstage interview with Tim Lynch, KPIG 1510-AM radio personality, followed by a Q&A and book signing. UC Berkeley International House 2299 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA Live Radio interview -Wednesday 21-April, 7:05pm (9:05pm CT) KFAB NEWS RADIO, 1110AM, Omaha, NB SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Wednesday 21-April, 2:00pm Dual Book signing with Robert Altman Connor Fennessy Art 801 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA SONOMA, CA -Wednesday 21-April, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Book signing Readers Books 130 E. Napa St., Sonoma, CA LOS ANGELES, CA -Friday, 23-April After today the following will have signed books on hand: Book Soup 8818 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069 -Saturday 24-April After today the following will have signed books on hand: Barnes & Noble / Santa Monica 1201 Third Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA Barnes & Noble / Grove at Farmers Market 189 Grove Drive Suite K 30 Los Angeles, CA Barnes & Noble / Studio City 12136 Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA Barnes & Noble / Encino 16461 Ventura Boulevard Encino, CA Live author i-chat (for i-phone app) -Sunday 25-April, 6:00pm CYInterview via Skype with host Chris Yandek Live radio phone interview -Monday, 26-April, 09:05am to 09:25am WJBC FM, Bloomington, IL Host: Ron Ross TORONTO, Canada -Tuesday 27-April Live TV interview 7:40am CTV-Canada AM NEW YORK, NY -Thursday, 29-April Multiple live radio interviews, 8:00am-11:00am Premiere Radio Network On-air radio tour Walk thru of Grateful Dead exhibit, 12:00pm to 1pm New York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY Book presentation and signing, 7:30pm Barnes & Noble/ Lincoln Triangle 1972 Broadway at 66th Street New York, NY AND ~ONWARD~ TO EUROPE!