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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780767911863
The complete history of one of the most long-lived and
legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian
and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads,
and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture.
From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the
most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever
grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry
Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron
“Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early
sixties’ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the
Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the
Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment
to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey
through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental
landscapes.
Dennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more than
twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead’s history in A
Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only
chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion,
but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup,
the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical
musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings
to vivid life the Dead’s early days in late-sixties San
Francisco–an era of astounding creativity and change that
reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and
powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Kesey’s acid tests,
mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley
“Bear” Stanley, and performing the alchemical experiments, both
live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing
and evocative music. But McNally carries the Dead’s saga through
the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring
and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique
bond between performers and audience, and created the business
enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation.
Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead
brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes
readers on a personal tour through the band’s inner circle,
highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. A Long Strange Trip
is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive
musical biography.
From the Hardcover edition.
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