Dancing with the DeadA Photographic Memoir: My Good Old Days with the Grateful Dead & the San Francisco Music Scene 1964-1974

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Photographer and Grateful Dead insider Rosie McGee tells dozens of previously-untold stories of living traveling and working with the Dead during their first decade as a band. The book is illustrated with 200 of her rare and candid photographs many never before seen in print. Not just for Deadheads or baby boomersthis book is for anyone seeking a womans intimate account of the San Francisco rock music community in the Sixties rare in a field of such books most often written by men. Included are firsthand stories of Autumn Records; The Matrix nightclub; the Acid Tests; Olompali; life in the Haight-Ashbury; the Human Be-In; the Grateful Dead (and the authors) bust at 710 Ashbury; New York Toronto and Montreal with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane; Monterey Pop; Altamont; the Deads Europe 72 tour; and encounters with individuals as diverse as Tom Donahue Phil Spector Lenny Bruce Janis Joplin Owsley Stanley Timothy Leary Jesse Colin Young Julie Christie and many others.