Peter Conners: 4 books
Growing Up Dead
The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes...
Cornell '77
The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead played a show so significant that the Library of Congress inducted it into the National Recording Registry. The band had just released Terrapin Station and was still finding its feet after...
White Hand Society
The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
While individual biographies of Ginsberg and Leary have been published, their explicit ties have never been explored (outside of FBI files). The combination of these two figures brings together a multitude of major figures from politics, the arts, and the intersection of intellectual life and outlaw...
JAMerica
The History of the Jam Band and Festival Scene
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
The term jam band” is used to categorize a type of music that favors improvisation and musicianship over concise riffs, hooks, and traditional songwriting structure. The term also helps define the fiercely dedicated fans of the music as accurately as it does the bands. Much as with the Grateful...