What A Long Strange Trip Its Been

Author : Dennis McNally
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307418774
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Long Strange Trip written by Dennis McNally and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixties’ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes. Dennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead’s history in A Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Dead’s early days in late-sixties San Francisco—an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Kesey’s acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley “Bear” Stanley, and performing the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. But McNally carries the Dead’s saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique bond between performers and audience, and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation. Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the band’s inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.

Author : Jann Wenner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 20 Years of Rolling Stone written by Jann Wenner and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles, interviews and photographs published in Rolling Stone. Authors, artists, and subjects included are Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Ralph Steadman, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Pete Townshend, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Woodstock, Kent State, Vietnam, Patty Hearst, Charles Manson, Karen Silkwood, and John Lennon.

Author : Professor Margaret Davies
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147240405X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory written by Professor Margaret Davies and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a distinct scholarly contribution to law, feminist legal theory is now well over three decades old. Those three decades have seen consolidation and renewal of its central concerns as well as remarkable growth, dynamism and change. This Companion celebrates the strength of feminist legal thought, which is manifested in this dynamic combination of stability and change, as well as in the diversity of perspectives and methodologies, and the extensive range of subject-matters, which are now included within its ambit. Bringing together contributors from across a range of jurisdictions and legal traditions, the book provides a concise but critical review of existing theory in relation to the core issues or concepts that have animated, and continue to animate, feminism. It provides an authoritative and scholarly review of contemporary feminist legal thought, and seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of some of its new approaches, perspectives, and subject-matters. The Companion is divided into three parts, dealing with 'Theory', 'Concepts' and 'Issues'. The first part addresses theoretical questions which are of significance to law, but which also connect to feminist theory at the broadest and most interdisciplinary level. The second part also draws on general feminist theory, but with a more specific focus on debates about equality and difference, race, culture, religion, and sexuality. The 'Issues' section considers in detail more specific areas of substantive legal controversy.

Author : Storm Constantine
Publisher : Immanion Press/Magalithica Books
ISBN 13 : 9781907737268
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What a Long Strange Trip It's Been written by Storm Constantine and published by Immanion Press/Magalithica Books. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "World of Warcraft" is acknowledged as the leader in the field of multi-player online roleplaying games, with a membership of more than 11 million people. Drawing upon the talents of other professional writers who play the game, as well as those of players who were simply eager to write about their passion, Constantine has compiled the first anthology of articles and short stories about "WoW."

Author : Chris Miskiewicz
Publisher : Z2 Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781940878300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grateful Dead Origins written by Chris Miskiewicz and published by Z2 Comics. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grateful Dead are one of the most influential rock and roll bands ofall time, but every story has a start. The Grateful Dead Origins takes an in depth and personal look at the formation of one of the most important American rock bands of all time, exploring the early days of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Pigpen, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, and their transition from being a bar cover band to one of the greatest sounds in history. TheGrateful Dead Origins showcases the beginning of the band through the early 1960's San Francisco Haight Ashbury era, becoming the house band for the Ken Kesey's psychedelic "acid tests," while telling a personal tale of the highs and lows of the tightly knit community that would grow around them, culminating at their historic performance at Woodstock, just one more show on their legendary road trip that would soon follow... This official Graphic Novel will also feature an accompanying album of rare Grateful Dead music.

Author : Andrea Hiott
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345521447
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Small written by Andrea Hiott and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes achieving big things requires the ability to think small. This simple concept was the driving force that propelled the Volkswagen Beetle to become an avatar of American-style freedom, a household brand, and a global icon. The VW Bug inspired the ad men of Madison Avenue, beguiled Woodstock Nation, and has recently been re-imagined for the hipster generation. And while today it is surely one of the most recognizable cars in the world, few of us know the compelling details of this car’s story. In Thinking Small, journalist and cultural historian Andrea Hiott retraces the improbable journey of this little car that changed the world. Andrea Hiott’s wide-ranging narrative stretches from the factory floors of Weimar Germany to the executive suites of today’s automotive innovators, showing how a succession of artists and engineers shepherded the Beetle to market through periods of privation and war, reconstruction and recovery. Henry Ford’s Model T may have revolutionized the American auto industry, but for years Europe remained a place where only the elite drove cars. That all changed with the advent of the Volkswagen, the product of a Nazi initiative to bring driving to the masses. But Hitler’s concept of “the people’s car” would soon take on new meaning. As Germany rebuilt from the rubble of World War II, a whole generation succumbed to the charms of the world’s most huggable automobile. Indeed, the story of the Volkswagen is a story about people, and Hiott introduces us to the men who believed in it, built it, and sold it: Ferdinand Porsche, the visionary Austrian automobile designer whose futuristic dream of an affordable family vehicle was fatally compromised by his patron Adolf Hitler’s monomaniacal drive toward war; Heinrich Nordhoff, the forward-thinking German industrialist whose management innovations made mass production of the Beetle a reality; and Bill Bernbach, the Jewish American advertising executive whose team of Madison Avenue mavericks dreamed up the legendary ad campaign that transformed the quintessential German compact into an outsize worldwide phenomenon. Thinking Small is the remarkable story of an automobile and an idea. Hatched in an age of darkness, the Beetle emerged into the light of a new era as a symbol of individuality and personal mobility—a triumph not of the will but of the imagination.

Author : Barry Barnes
Publisher : Business Plus
ISBN 13 : 145550517X
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead written by Barry Barnes and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grateful Dead is one of the most popular bands of all time and they have enjoyed incredible relevance to this day. But let's admit it, they were not exactly poster boys for corporate America. In Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Grateful Dead, Deadhead and business scholar Barry Barnes proves that the Dead's influence on the business world will turn out to be a significant part of their legacy. Without intending to, the band pioneered ideas and practices that were subsequently embraced by American corporations. And in this book Barnes shares the ten most innovative business lessons from the Dead's illustrious career, including: Creating and delivering superior customer value Incorporating and establishing a board of directors early on Founding a merchandising division Giving away your product for free to increase demand Above all, Barnes explains how the Dead were masters of what he calls "strategic improvisation"-the ability to adapt to changing times and circumstances -- and that their success lay precisely in their commitment to constant change and relentless variation. For an extraordinary thirty years, the Dead improvised a business plan and realized their vision -- all while making huge profits. Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Greatful Dead will show you how they did it -- and what your business can learn from their long, strange trip.

Author : Joel S. Goldsmith
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060632313
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Parenthesis in Eternity written by Joel S. Goldsmith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-01-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldsmith explains the Circle of Eternity--the basis of his approach to mysticism--and tells how to transcend the "parenthesis'' of our everyday lives that falls between birth and death.

Author : Keith Knight
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What a Long Strange Strip It's Been written by Keith Knight and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous comic strips about a variety of subjects.

Author : Stephen Peters
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560252337
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What a Long, Strange Trip written by Stephen Peters and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A song-by-song analysis identifies the background of such Dead songs as "New Speedway Boogie," "Truckin'," and "Casey Jones"