From the first Acid Tests in 1965 to the mid-1980s, Rock Scully was the Grateful Dead's manager, confidant, and coconspirator. Now, in the first memoir ever published by a member of the Dead family, he gives us the full story of rock's longest-running road show.From the legendary mayhem of the Haight-Ashbury scene to the creation of signature musical excursions like Lovelight and Uncle Johns Band, Scully brings to life two decades of ceaseless touring, wild antics, and musical experimentation. At the heart of the book is Jerry Garcia, the band's true soul. Living with the Dead captures Garcia's endless inventiveness, vision, and sparkling humor while unblinkingly chronicling his descent into drug addiction -- a revealing and powerful picture that could be drawn only by someone who was there.Written by one who escaped with his life, this is the story that everyone who loves the Dead has waited years to hear.
- ISBN10 1461661137
- ISBN13 9781461661139
- Publish Date 28 August 2001 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cooper Square Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 416
- Language English