"Grateful Dead": The Long, Strange Trip in Stories, Photos, and Memorabilia
Author(s): Ben Fong-Torres
Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration. "The Grateful Dead Scrapbook" collects a trove of rare removable memorabilia and evocative images culled from the Grateful Dead Archives at the University of Santa Cruz, including never-before-published photos, flyers, fan letters, and other ephemera. To accompany the eye-popping visuals, renowned journalist Ben Fong-Torres contributes a rich text that tells the band's story in a fresh way, centering each chapter on a pivotal song that encapsulates a certain era of the band's songwriting, performance, and community, and drawing on his personal knowledge of the San Francisco music scene and the band. Bound in an eye-catching slipcase and including an audio CD, "The Grateful Dead Scrapbook" is a fully illustrated volume as colorful as the band itself.
Product Information
Ben Fong-Torres is the author of six books. He began writing for Rolling Stone with its 8th issue in 1968, and his writing has been published in numerous other magazines, including the main biography of Jerry Garcia for People Magazine's Tribute issue on the occasion of the singer's death in 1995. He lives in San Francisco.
General Fields
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- : Chronicle Books Llc
- : Chronicle Books Llc
- : Contains Hardback and CD-Audio
- : 1.2
- : 01 October 2009
- : 260mm X 257mm X 30mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Ben Fong-Torres
- : Hardback
- : 1109
- : English
- : 782.421660922
- : 64
- : Full colour photos, full colour and black and white illustraions
