Good Old Grateful Dead

By: Michael Lydon

Narrated by: Peter Larkin

Suddenly the music is not notes or a tune, but what those seven people are exactly: the music is an aural holograph of the Grateful Dead. All their fibers, nuances, histories, desires, beings are clear. Jerry and his questing, Phil the loyal comrade, Tom drifting beside them both on a cloud, Pig staying stubbornly down to earth; Mickey working out furious complexities trying to understand how Bill is so simple, and Bob succumbing inevitably to Jerry and Phil and joining them. And that is just the beginning, because at each note, at each phrase the balances change, each testing, feeding, mocking, and finally driving each other on, further and further on.

In Good Old Grateful Dead, Michael Lydon follows the band in its attempt to continue to foster the communal, collaborative spirit that brought it to fame while resisting fame's price: the conforming pressures of what Lydon calls "the rock n' roll machine".

©2016 Michael Lydon (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Fun listen

Good reading of a article in rolling stone from back in the day. Enjoy, I did.

Excellent

I wish I could have heard them play. The reader brings this article 2 life.

A brief review of the early days with the grateful dead

An audible Shorty barely scratches the surface of this legendary band. It’s like the author read a couple of Rolling Stone articles and dashed this thing out.