Home Before Daylight

Author : Steve Parish
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429979214
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Before Daylight written by Steve Parish and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today. Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him and after getting out he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a job moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion. The first show he worked was a Grateful Dead concert in July of 1969 and Parish was captivated by the music. A life seemingly headed nowhere had suddenly found its calling as he fell in quickly with a band of likeminded misfits who formed the nucleus of what would be the greatest road crew in rock 'n' roll history. Parish traveled to California where his apprenticeship began. Working for the band for free and learning his craft, Parish got to know Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Billy and Mickey and through the years their relationships forged an unbreakable bond. He became very close with Garcia in particular, acting as his personal roadie and later manager for his solo performances and Garcia Band shows. He was there during times of trouble (like when a pimp held Garcia hostage at gunpoint in a New York hotel room), spending hours by his bedside when Garcia was in a coma in 1986, and performing the duties of best man at his wedding. He was also the last friend to see Garcia alive. Throughout the Dead's historic run, there were parties of biblical proportion and celebrity run-ins with everybody from Bob Dylan to Frank Sinatra--but there was a dark side to life on the road and tragedy didn't just strike the musicians. But Home Before Daylight is a story of friendship, of music and redemption. It is a piece of music history, one that reflects the American spirit of adventure and brotherhood. Seen through Steve Parish's eyes and experiences, The Grateful Dead's wild ride has never been so revealing.

Author : Steve Parish
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312333997
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Before Daylight written by Steve Parish and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion, a teenage Steve Parish worked his first Grateful Dead concert in July 1969, and he was captivated. His life, seemingly heading nowhere, suddenly found its calling as he fell in quickly with this band of like-minded misfits who formed the nucleus of what would be the greatest road crew in rock 'n' roll history. Parish traveled to California, where his apprenticeship with the group began. Working for free while honing his craft, Parish got to know Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Billy, and Mickey. Through the years their relationships forged an unbreakable bond. In particular, he became very close to Jerry Garcia, serving as his personal roadie and later as manager for his solo performances and the Jerry Garcia Band shows. There was a dark side to life on the road and tragedy didn't strike just the musicians.

Author : Steve Parish
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031230353X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Before Daylight written by Steve Parish and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Woodstock to Europe to Egypt, this book presents the untold true story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead--written by a man who lived the dream.

Author : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743211994
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Hour Before Daylight written by Jimmy Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.

Author : Phil Lesh
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316145862
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for the Sound written by Phil Lesh and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. of photos.

Author : Rock Scully
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815411634
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with the Dead written by Rock Scully and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

Author : Dennis McNally
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307418774
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Long Strange Trip written by Dennis McNally and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Judith Miller
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1585587486
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daylight Comes (Freedom’s Path Book #3) written by Judith Miller and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth Wyman has watched Nicodemus, Kansas, grow into a busy little prairie town. And she has grown up, too. Her family was among the first settlers to homestead this area, and there is nowhere she'd rather live. She's always thought her husband felt the same way. . . . Then Moses comes home with news that he has been nominated for state office. If he wins, they'll need to move to the state capital. Pregnant with her first child, Truth does not plan to move to Topeka. How can she raise her baby in an unfamiliar city? How can she leave her family and her home? Yet what will happen if she refuses? Nicodemus's sister community, Hill City, is thriving, too. Macia Boyle returns to her family after a European holiday. The storekeeper's nephew, Garrett Johnson, captures her attention, but she can't seem to forget Jeb Malone, the young blacksmith who showed interest in her before her trip. Soon, Macia must make a choice: Should she return to Jeb's arms or seek a new life with Garrett?

Author : Peter Conners
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306817330
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Dead written by Peter Conners and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful journey from straight-laced suburban kid to Deadhead nomad to mid-thirties dad, against the backdrop of the late 80s and mid- 90s"

Author : Robert Greenfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062268317
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Star written by Robert Greenfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time. In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best. Together the voices in this oral biography explore his remarkable life: his childhood in San Francisco; the formation of his musical identity; the Dead's road to rock stardom; and his final, crushing addiction to heroin. Interviews with Jerry's former wives, lovers, family members, close friends, musical partners, and cultural cohorts create a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a rock-and-roll icon—and at the price of fame.