A Long Strange Trip, Dennis McNally
A Long Strange Trip, Dennis McNally
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A Long Strange Trip
The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

Author: Dennis McNally

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 29 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2017

Synopsis

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 early sixties' roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture.

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. McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band's intricate stage setup, or the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience. McNally carries the Dead's saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration.

Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music, 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.

About Dennis McNally

Dennis McNally is an author, historian and music publicist. He was the publicist for the Grateful Dead and the band's authorized biographer. He is the author of the bestselling history of the band, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, as well as the recently published On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom and Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation & America. He lives in San Francisco.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lee on May 15, 2020

The greatest epic I've read since War and Peace. Sort of joking about that but only sort of. A fantastic picaresque adventure featuring a cast of charismatic characters, supremely talented and obsessive yet somehow not very ambitious, dedicated to music/magic and drugs, surrounded by all sorts of su......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on March 22, 2022

Let me just point out that the goodreads average rating on this book is 4.20. For a book that talks so much about synchronicity (and, of course, marijuana), this is perfect and hilarious. I will legit take down my 5 star rating if it disturbs this kismet.......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on September 09, 2014

Wow. What a long strange read it's been. This was the epic rock and roll band biography. I have to give it five stars because it inspired me to dig deeper into the Dead and the individual members music more than ever and as a result of that growing in my own understanding of music. If there is anyth......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 09, 2008

Instead of writing a review I will just cut and paste something I had written about my experience with the Grateful Dead. It's sums up the reason I bought this book in the first place. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< After my first Grateful Dead show at the Philadelphia Spectr......more

Goodreads review by M. on March 30, 2020

[URL not allowed]-... ...But the ugly mother sure could play! . . . Verily, he was wondrous gross, was this Pigpen, yet such was the subtle alchemy of his art that the more he profaned love and beauty, the more his grossness rendered him beautiful.... Pigpen was perhaps the main re......more

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