by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Dec 6, 2015 | Jerry Garcia
Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews
by Dennis McNally (Editor)
Trixie Garcia (Foreword)
These never-before-published interviews with Jerry Garcia reveal his thoughts on religion, politics, his personal life, and his creative process. Jerry on Jerry provides new insight into the beloved frontman of the Grateful Dead in time for the 50th Anniversary of the band.
Released by the Jerry Garcia Family and made available to the public for the first time, these are some of the most candid, intimate interviews with Jerry Garcia ever published. Here, Garcia speaks openly about everything from growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and his first encounters with early R&B to his thoughts on songwriting, LSD, the Beats and Neal Cassady, government, movies, and more. Illustrated with family photographs, ephemera, and Jerry’s artwork, Jerry on Jerry presents uniquely poignant, unguarded, and astute moments, showing a side of Jerry that even his biggest fans have not known.
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by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Sep 23, 2015 | Grateful Dead
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed:
An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
By David Gans and Blair Jackson
Publish date: November 10th – Hardcover, Kindle and Audiobook – Pre Order here
Fifty years after the Grateful Dead was formed, the band still exerts a powerful influence over hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. Today, an entire generation of Deadheads who have never experienced a live Dead show are still drawn to the music and the complex and colorful subculture that has grown up around it.
In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, Blair Jackson and David Gans, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, reveal the band’s story through the words of its members and their creative collaborators, as well as a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices into a seamless oral tapestry. Woven into this musical saga is an examination of the subculture that developed into its own economy, touching fans from all walks of life, from penniless hippies to celebrities, and at least one U.S. vice president.
The book traces the band’s evolution from its folk/bluegrass beginnings through the Jug Band craze, an early incarnation as Rolling Stones wannabes, feral psychedelic warriors, the Americana jam band that blazed through the ’70s, to the shockingly popular but still iconoclastic stadium-filling band of later years. The Dead broke every rule of the music business along the way, taking risks and venturing into new territory as they fused inspired ideas and techniques with intuition and fearlessness to create a sound-and a business model-unlike anything heard and seen before. 
by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Previously we shared an excerpt from the Digital Edition of Rosie McGee’s Dancing With the Dead: A Photographic Memoir
Her book is also available in a Print Edition – a real book you can hold in your hands! You can get the hardcover from Amazon and other online sellers, or request it in your local bookstore (support local business!)
You can also get a signed copy direct from Rosie McGee herself at RosieMcGee.com!
Meet Rosie! Special event TONIGHT (July 31, 2014) Rosie McGee LIVE IN PERSON In Petaluma California sharing pictures, telling stories, and signing books, With Music By THE INCUBATORS Featuring STU ALLEN.
Event Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/877518308942301/
Here is an excerpt from the PRINT Edition of Dancing With the Dead: A Photographic Memoir. From Chapter Five, Central Park, New York, 1968, (print edition), text & photos © Rosie McGee.
A couple of days later, the Dead and the Airplane joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for a free concert in the Central Park band shell. The bands played a great concert to an ecstatic and packed audience that danced and screamed with joy all afternoon. The photos I took on that trip to New York are some of my favorites.
by happycat! >^.^<m~ | Jul 1, 2014 | Grateful Dead
Timothy Leary at the Human Be-in.
Photographer, storyteller and author Rosie Mcgee was there, with her camera.
Rosie was in many places and events in Grateful Dead history, and she wrote a book about it – with lots of wonderful pictures!
Rosie McGee is a good friend and supporter of Deadheadland, and has generously given us permission to share some pictures and excerpts from her book, “Dancing with the Dead—A Photographic Memoir” © Rosie McGee. For your enjoyment!
From Chapter Four, the Human Be-in, 1967, (eBook)
Next was Timothy Leary, who intoned his “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out” mantra with yellow flowers sticking out from behind his ears. I found him well meaning but pretentious and boring, so for me, it was tune out of his speech. But he did have the attention of some of the audience, most fatefully, the media that was present.
After Leary spoke, there were more speeches, including anti-war exhortations from radical activist Jerry Rubin that were heartfelt, but strangely out of place. It wasn’t the message that seemed counter to the time and place, as nearly everyone agreed with his anti-war stance, but his angry and long-winded delivery put many people off.
By the time the Dead went on stage, the place was packed wall-to-wall with people. Bear had freely distributed his White Lightning acid throughout the crowd and most of them had willingly taken it. At the time, LSD was enjoyed in the community as a benign and still-legal recreational drug.
The band kicked into their first song…
“Dancing with the Dead—A Photographic Memoir” © Rosie McGee is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and directly from Rosie McGee.com, in 3 formats, eBook, a print edition (signed by Rosie Mcgee!), and an audio book read by Rosie Mcgee.
What is really special about the ebook edition is that the the color photos will be COLOR! (Unless, like me, you have a Kindle Paperwhite… oh well!) You can get the ebook on most any device you own, Mac or PC, and just about every Tablet or phone, Kindle, Nook, iPhone or Android.
Here are some sample pages from the COLOR eBook edition of Dancing with the Dead—A Photographic Memoir (the watermarks on the images are only on the samples here, not on the actual book):
“Dancing with the Dead—A Photographic Memoir” © Rosie McGee is available from Amazon, Barnes and noble, and directly from Rosie McGee.com in 3 formats, eBook, a print edition (signed by Rosie Mcgee!), and an audio book read by Rosie Mcgee.
Stay tuned to DHL in days to come as we share more from
“Dancing with the Dead—A Photographic Memoir” © Rosie McGee
