Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
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This memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985. Publishers Weekly When Scully first saw the Grateful Dead perform, in San Francisco in 1965, he thought they were the ``world's ugliest band.'' He promptly signed on as their manager and lived with them for the next 20 years; in 1985, fresh from a heroin detox clinic, he quit or was fired amid charges (all false, says he) of misusing the band's money. His account of those years, written with the coauthor of Marianne Faithfull's autobiography, is not addressed exclusively to an audience of Deadheads. In fact, they may be disappointed by the low profile Jerry Garcia keeps in Scully's memories. He does remember the LSD and the drugs and the hazy high jinks: the souring Haight-Ashbury scene, Woodstock and Altamont, the ``endless party rolling down the road.'' He describes Garcia as ``magnetic, affable, inquisitive, approachable and infinitely benign,'' and that's about as deep as it gets. A few of the albums, especially early ones, get some attention, but Scully is more interested in the Dead as a social phenomenon. And after 20 years, with Garcia getting ever deeper into drugs and isolation, the group, he says, became both a self-parody and a ``cash cow.'' Photos not seen by PW. (Jan.)
1The World's Biggest Crystal32The Octagon Is in Place83Plaid Iguanas214Acid Rain365710 Ashbury516The Gathering of the Tribes767High Noon in the Haight978Anthem of the Sun1139Whores, Wars, Weed and the Wild, Wild Northwest13510This Darkness Got to Give16211Two for the Road18612Box of Rain19913We're All Bozos on This Bus21614Ship of Fools22715Barbarians in Europe23516Blues for Allah25317Zeno's Lullaby26418Trouble Behind27819A Terrapin on Shakedown Street29820Up in Smoke31221Before I Get Old33722Chief Smoking Moccasin353Afterword: Adios, Black Jack367Index371
