Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead
by Rock Scully
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Author: Rock ScullyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-25
ISBN: 0815411634
Number of pages: 408
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
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Book Review: Too many mistakes
Summary: 2 Stars
After having read this five or six years ago, and going through yet another phase of revisiting my fascination with all things Grateful Dead, I decided to read this again. I almost wrote down all the historical inaccuracies I could find, and there were about a dozen or so, if not more. It could be said that Rock Scully could be given some slack for this, but I'm left with the feeling that this was a rush job to cash in on Garcia's untimely death. That may seem harsh, but considering Scully had been out of the scene for almost 10 years at that point, and he gives no indication what he'd been doing to make a living, it seems probable that he was in need of an infusion of cash.
This is the most 'kiss and tell' book I've read on the Grateful Dead, and so much of these accounts I have to actually question the creibility of what's written. I have very little sympathy for Scully because he was along for what must have been a very enjoyable ride, but in the end he allowed himself to be reduced to Jerry's flunky, helping enable his decline.
All in all this is some entertaining reading, yet sad. You get the sense that Scully cared much less about the music then the drugs, and true Dead fans always cared more about the music first. You'd also get the feeling that Scully alludes to Jerry having been in such decline by the mid-80's that he was just going through the motions in order to pay for his drug habit. True fans know that while the 80's by and large weren't their best decade, they still managed to play many great shows. It wasn't until the 90's that things really fell apart, and I'm surprised Scully doesn't suggest it was because they didn't keep him around.
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This memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.Rock Books
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