As the Grateful Dead's musical odyssey unfolded over the course of four decades, their persistent touring produced an innovative live archive that was avidly devoured by their zealous fans. In Deadology, Howard Weiner selects the band's most productive dates throughout the years and dissects their finest jams, segues, sets, and shows. The narrative of each essential day and month flows like a unique mini-documentary-thirty-three shades of Grateful Dead history. Deadology is a thorough, timeless, and distinctive chronicle that illuminates the prodigious output of a band beyond description.

A Tale of Twisted Fate chronicles Bob Dylan's rapid ascent to immortality as the preeminent songwriter of his time, and contrasts that with the Grateful Dead's long strange trip, during which they went from being a psychedelic band with a cult following to the most popular touring act in America. When Dylan & the Dead launched their historic 1987 tour, Dylan's popularity was declining and he was out of touch with his muse. On the other hand, the Grateful Dead basked in the unexpected commercial success of their hit MTV video "Touch of Grey." Inspired by his time with the Dead, Dylan experienced a rebirth as a performing artist. A Tale of Twisted Fate explores the influences, innovations, and legacies of the iconic careers of Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia.

For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why—and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the Acid Tests to the band's formation of their own record label to their massive late career success, while probing the riddle of the Dead's vast and durable appeal. Arguing that the band successfully tapped three powerful utopian ideals—for ecstasy, mobility, and community—it also shows how the Dead's lived experience with these ideals struck deep chords with two generations of American youth and continues today. Routinely caricatured by the mainstream media, the Grateful Dead are often portrayed as grizzled hippy throwbacks with a cult following of burned-out stoners. No Simple Highway corrects that impression, revealing them to be one of the most popular, versatile, and resilient music ensembles in the second half of the twentieth century. The band's history has been well-documented by insiders, but its unique and sustained appeal has yet to be explored fully. At last, this legendary American musical institution is given the serious and entertaining examination it richly deserves.

The story of Howard "Catfish" Weiner's road rhapsody as it landed him in Las Vegas for his 100th Bob Dylan show. This is a memoir of how 300 nights with Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead changed his life.

The author presents a profile of the Jerry Garcia Band, including band personnel from 1975-1979, concert set lists, essays of the author's first-hand concert experiences, and concert photos from the author's personal archives.

The author chronicles the year 1977 in the career of the Grateful Dead and the lives of their fans.

A daily listening journal to discover set lists and available recordings of the Grateful Dead for (almost) every day of the year. This 600+ page book provides the most complete and accurate Grateful Dead set lists, presented in Month-Day format (January 1st through December 31st), so you can quickly and easily find all the Grateful Dead shows available for any given day of the year from the band's 30-year career (1965 - 1995). For every show, the book also provides information on interesting show and song notes, what the "certainty" status of a particular show and set list is, who the band members were, if a guest musician played with the band, and if it was the first, final or only time a song was played. It also identifies every "officially" released song, along with the name of the album that you can find it on. In addition, for every show, there is space to write your own notes, a place to mark your own show/set rating, if it's a favorite show, if you attended the show, and if you have a recording of it.

The origins and secrets of the Grateful Dead's magical sound are told! This book is the first in-depth examination of the Dead's technical side, including their recording methods. From the "Acid Tests" of the mid-'60s to the famous "Wall of Sound" PA setup in the '70s and on to their exceptional later touring systems, the Grateful Dead were always on the cutting edge of technological innovation and experimentation. This exhaustive study includes clear and concise explanations of the band's equipment technology, instrument design, and studio recording techniques, plus a history of the group. Features: more than 100 photos and diagrams, many never before seen; new interviews with band members and tech personnel; suggested listening for every era of the group's history; and more!

Jerry Garcia: Secret Space of Dreams is a hard cover coffee table book that will bring together, for the first time, a comprehensive collection of photographs of Jerry Garcia taken by renowned Grateful Dead photographer Jay Blakesberg. The focus of the book is to present a collection of Jay's iconic images of Garcia from 1978 until Garcia's death in 1995. The book will include photographs of Garcia with members of the Grateful Dead as well as guest musicians and solo projects Jerry worked on. Since Jerry Garcia's passing, the band's popularity has remained immense as evidenced by their continued merchandise sales, acclaimed 50th anniversary "Fare Thee Well" concerts in 2015 and ongoing tours by surviving members. The book will include quotes from many notable musicians who were influenced and inspired by Jerry Garcia.

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.