{"product_id":"a-long-strange-trip-9780767911863","title":"A Long Strange Trip","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Grateful Dead’s official historian presents the definitive chronicle of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Long Strange Trip \u003c\/i\u003emanages to capture the entirety of the complex organism that was the Grateful Dead. . . . The most comprehensive and reliable account out there.”—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Dennis McNally] conjures afresh the pure, unaccountable, jolting weirdness of the unrepeatable moment when manufactured psychedelics burst into American popular culture and ran riot through literature, music, fashion, and lifestyle.”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities ever to grace American culture. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead’s history in \u003ci\u003eA Long Strange Trip.\u003c\/i\u003e In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinating detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, and metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Dead’s early days in the late-sixties San Francisco—an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day—and carries the Dead’s saga through the seventies and into the years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which cemented a unique bond between performers and audience and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, \u003ci\u003eA Long Strange Trip\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a wide-ranging cultural history; it is a definitive musical biography.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62268774875523,"sku":"9780767911863","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780767911863.jpg?v=1785509004","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/a-long-strange-trip-9780767911863","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}