Grateful dead band in a box files6/19/2023 But maybe 1977."), and then finally a heavy reliance on Xanax, which leads straight back to rehab, followed by some of the worst concerts of their dazzlingly inconsistent career, only to find him in the next chapter swilling more booze, smoking more dope, philandering without remorse, remarrying, band members dying, and all of this with almost zero trace elements of the self-awareness that one hopes to find in a rock'n'roll memoir.Ĭertainly as rock bands go, the Dead has a mystique about them that could rival the Stones or Zeppelin or the Doors. I'm thinking it was sometime before Egypt. ![]() But the real knock out, at least for the author, comes in the slightly more prosaic combination of coke and booze, which led him in and out of rehab more times than I could keep track of (ditto his marriages - which apparently he couldn't keep track of either, at one point basically giving up altogether: "I don't remember when Shelley and I got married, exactly. ![]() There is also far too much heroin, though it could be argued that any amount is too much, especially when your guitar player is nodding off in front of stadiums full of paying fans.
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