Long Strange Trip The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

"To author Dennis McNally's credit, A LONG STRANGE TRIP: THE INSIDE HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD manages to capture the entirety of the complex organism that was the Grateful Dead. A long-time Deadhead and the group's publicist since the '80s, McNally is a band trusted insider who is, therefore, a somewhat untrustworthy reporter. Fortunately, he doesn't dodge the tough stuff....McNally's greatest achievement is untangling the Dead's knotty history....[But] McNally devotes far too much space to pre-Summer of Love San Francisco, cranking out page after page about the goofy antics of scenesters both bored and stoned....Like the Dead, TRIP is imperfect, but McNally has documented this odd corner of the rock world with a lot of love and no less insight."McNally, Dennis is the author of 'Long Strange Trip The Inside History of the Grateful Dead' with ISBN 9780767911863 and ISBN 0767911865.