Captain Trips: The Life and Fast Times of Jerry Garcia

Captain Trips: The Life and Fast Times of Jerry Garcia  (Paperback)

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Captain Trips: The Life and Fast Times of Jerry Garcia  (Paperback)

Publisher : Virgin Books (January 19, 1995)
Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9 780863 698668
Item Weight : 13.9 ounces  (445 gr)
Size:  21 x 13 cm
Printed in the UK
288 pages, with bl/white photo’s

Avid Dead fan and chronicler Sandy Troy probes Jerry Garcia’s personal and professional life through childhood and adolescence, Summer of Love acid tests, drug busts, three marriages, a brush with death, and his comeback. Troy also traces the Dead’s highs and lows and Garcia’s musical relationships with songwriter Robert Hunter and other musicians in the Grateful Dead.

IMAGINE BEING able to skip through time and witness historv first-hand. On my own list of happening temporal destinations would be McGoo’s Pizza Parlour in Menlo Park, California, one particular Thursday night in mid-February 1964. The Warlocks, soon to become the Grateful Dead, are about to begin their second set of the evening having just wolfed a double dose of Owsley Stanley’s latest Blue Phantom LSD. I would slip in unnoticed, order a large pepperoni, slurp on a Coke, sink back into the cherry vinyl and quietly await the dawning of the Psychedelic Age.  Cliff Jones, MOJO, March 1995

Book is in very fine condition, see photo’s