Grateful Dead

Tiger Lilly,Thanks for the great book tip! I've heeded a lot of the recommendations on this thread, with the rationale that grate taste in music might imply grate taste in literature. So far, so good! I'm just a little bit of a way into Three Bags Full, and it is totally delightful. Thanks again for bringing this delightful flock of sheep into my world!

I just finished reading Peter Conner's book Growing Up Dead and I really liked it. It bought back a billion memories but it also took me farther/further than my own Dead experiences on a journey of vicarious good times. It' recalls both the late era Dead scene and the music/philosophy that proceeded it as well as how teen rebellion is inspired, cultivated, and turned into something beautiful when it moves along to music.I'd give it about twenty-three stars, with twenty stars the most a book can earn.

is a figure of speech, pretty much, but UC Santa Cruz has the Dead Archive and might like a copy for that!

I wrote a book about my 30 years touring with the Dead: "Going Down the Road Feeling Glad" Can I donate a copy to the Grateful Dead Library? If so, how? The Grateful Fred

I probably should have said that people MIGHT find some truth in it. I sounded a little arrogant to myself there.

HiI was just reading the previous post. I'm going to have to own that book. Meanwhile--here is the blurberino from mine-- FREAKED, by J.T. Dutton – YA – Humor, Coming of Age –Set in the mid-nineties. Prep school student and ardent fan of the Grateful Dead, 15 year old Scotty Douglas Loveletter road trips to the most unforgettable show of his life. HarperTeen March 17, 2009 You can read some of it on Amazon. It's fiction, but I'm guessing people will find a lot of truth in it. Jen Dutton

Hey Folks, Hope you'll indulge a little horn-tooting! My new book, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead, was just published and I'd love you to check it out. This isn't a book about the band's history or an insiders story, etc. Those are great, but this ain't that. This is a book about going to shows, street level, pure and simple. I've gotten some good feedback on it already, but my favorite is from Dead publicist/historian Dennis McNally: "The hardest part of being the Grateful Dead’s publicist was convincing the media that Deadheads were diverse, thoughtful, and not infrequently accomplished. If I’d just had a copy of Growing Up Dead, I could have simply handed it out. The Deadhead subculture was rich and fascinating, and this book is a terrific documentation of it.” In support of the book, I've got interviews lined up on the Tales from the Golden Road show on the G.D. Sirius channel and also on the G.D. Hour with David Gans. Got some readings & stuff too. I'd like to pop a note in here and there & hopefully meet some people along the road. First stop is in Albany this spring, same night as the Dead plays there, at an art gallery just down the street. Fri, April 17, 5:30. Amrose Sable Gallery, 306 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. Hit the reading, then hit the show (that's what I'm doing!) You can check out the book at Amazon etc. (tho I hope your local indie bookstore will carry it too!) Thanks everyone... love to hear from you if & when you crack the spine & look inside... Peter Conners www.peterconners.com the storyteller makes no choice...

Just finished DARK STAR-Its pretty cool how its just quotes about Jerry by people cose to him,Makes it an easy read. I never realized how much pressure that poor man had to endure.He was truly a rock-n-roll soldier-He never wanted to stop touring because he did'nt want to put 100+ people out of work or let down the DEADHEADS and his body was begging him to at least take a couple years off the road Maybe if he cared about himself as much as he cared about everybody else-we would still be hearing that sweet sound. It's truly sad-I miss him.

Excellent Mark. I will have to revisit that book, been in my archives for years. Thank you,pk

...and took a nap! "Three Bags Full" was very enjoyable, and needs to have a sequel. Who'd've thought, a story about sheep could be cool. I just finished reading "Skeleton Key"(grate book, but a little out of date) and a few things synced up with some of the vine activity going on: *The entry for the WELL (starring our own marye) mentions the BCT '86 run of shows at which marye and David Gans handed out flyers for the GD conferences on the WELL - which is why the entire run is being vined even as we speak. We should all "whine" for a vine covering the Kaiser 11/20, 21, 22/85 run, in the balcony of which marye and Gans had the "lightbulb" moment of creating a Dead zone in cyberspace (note that marye has in fact played a part in creating a world, therefore = goddess). *There is a William & Mary '73 vine starting up - one of these shows (9/11/73) was the first GD show that Bruce Hornsby attended. He went on to start a band with his brother that played Dead covers, and from there...ended up playing with a Dead band that does Dylan covers! *In one of the appendices there is a list of Jim Powell's dozen favorite "Dark Stars". One of these is included in another vine just getting started, the Boston Ark '69 vine (4/22). Several other listed "Dunkelstern"s have been vined, although only the '91 DSB vine with the 9/10 MSG show appears to still be active. *This isn't vine-related, just an amusing coincidence: Several days ago I received a private message here with the very gracious offer of a place to stay in Chicago during my upcoming visit to see the Dead at Rosemont (I have been unable to reply to this offer yet, due to an extended internet outage resulting from the truly hideous weather here in Louisville). I read this PM just a few minutes after reading the following riddle in "Skeleton Key": Q: How do you know that Deadheads have stayed at your house? A: They're still there. Cheers! MarkintheDark ********************************************* *********This space for rent************** *********************************************