Living with the Dead

By Rock Scully, David Dalton,

Book cover of Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead

Book description

As a manager for the Grateful Dead, Rock Scully was with the band from its early days in San Francisco to the years it spent touring the globe as one of the most enduring legends in music history. In Living with the Dead , Scully gives a complete account of…

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1 author picked Living with the Dead as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As good a history of the Dead as you’re likely to find. Scully spent nearly two decades as close to the band as you could get without actually being a member. Great stories and anecdotes and a wonderfully drawn and evocative history of the band from their very early acid-drenched days in the 1960s through to their evolution as one of the most important and loved bands in American music history.

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