Presenting the Ultimate Music Guide to one of the world’s most pioneering and historic bands: the Grateful Dead. From the dawn of expanded consciousness with Ken Kesey’s “acid tests” all the way to their huge hit “Touch Of Grey” and beyond – what a long, strange trip it’s been… Featuring an exclusive introduction by Bob Weir: “My spine became electric, it was no longer matter…” Bob tells us what it was really like to be on stage during “Dark Star”. Plus a series of new interviews in which a cast of band members, producers and workingmen (and women) recall for us just how far the band travelled It’s now 25 years since Garcia’s death (we’re a month or so after what would have been his 78th birthday), but his presence beams from the archive interviews and the music we give detailed attention to in this new publication. Always old heads on young shoulders, the band he led had lived a life on a tightrope between musical scholarship and chemical-sociological change before they even recorded their debut album. Advertisement If it was hard for them to fit in the sum of their experience into that debut, it was a struggle which informed and energised rather than troubled the band from that point on. The next 30 years were spent chasing something down in their music, which blossomed ever outward. Their releases span official live albums like the superb Live/Dead or Skull & Roses. There are great studio records like Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, both now 50 years old. And all this ran parallel to an unofficial history of live recordings, all – with some foresight – permitted by the band. The band saw themselves as fingers on a hand, which you might see guiding the music along its way, a journey which may not be completely done. As Bob Weir tells us in his exclusive introduction to this issue, he doesn’t only think about what Grateful Dead music has done so far, but also about what’s next, “where it wants to go…”
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