Author Topic: Phil Lesh Book (Read 501 times)

jacko · « **on:** April 13, 2005, 05:15:47 AM »

In case you're interested, Phil Lesh has an autobiography out - Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead.
Available from http://www.powells.com/
My copy is even now winging its way to the UK along with a Grateful Dead Rarities CD and signed book plate (whatever that is)

graeme

lbpesq · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2005, 07:31:33 AM »

I just ordered the book yesterday from Amazon.com. No CD, no signed bookplate. Bummer. I'm going to check when I get to the office if I can cancel and order through Powells. Thanks for the heads up.

Bill, tgo

jacko · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2005, 07:33:31 AM »

I'd check first bill. Might have been a pre-order deal.

graeme

jacko · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2005, 07:37:42 AM »

Nope, Just checked and they still show the goodies.

graeme

lbpesq · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2005, 07:48:09 AM »

I just checked the web sites. Powell's deal is still going on. It's too late to cancel my Amazon order, but the Amazon price is $9 less than Powell's and includes free shipping. Please give us all a review of the CD when you get it. I've never heard of Cardboard Cowboy, the previously unreleased '66 Dead tune. Of course my sour grapes rationalization is that if it were any good, why wait 39 years to release it?

Bill, tgo

jacko · « **Reply #5 on:** April 13, 2005, 07:51:43 AM »

Will do. i doubt if I'd have got free delivery to the UK though. Still no idea what a 'book plate' is

graeme

effclef · « **Reply #6 on:** April 13, 2005, 08:06:38 AM »

Book plates are those labels for the inside front cover - EX LIBRIS - etc. This Book Belongs To.

So it'll have Phils signature there. You can say you got it at his garage sale. Garden sale? Book rally? Whatever they call them in the UK.

EffClef

jacko · « **Reply #7 on:** April 13, 2005, 08:10:41 AM »

Thanks andy. I could fill it in 'to graeme, the best bass player never to have played with the dead - love phil Lesh' LOL!

tom_z · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2005, 07:37:10 PM »

Just received my copy from Powells and listened to the accompanying CD. It has eight tracks - four musical tracks each with a spoken commentary by Phil - very nice. Skimming the contents briefly, I noticed a handful of references to Bear, Ron W. and Alembic. Can't wait to dig in!

Oh yeah, there's also a nice little bookplate signed by Phil.

Tom

lbpesq · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2005, 07:48:24 PM »

I'm about a quarter of the way through the book. I love it! Phil is not only very bright and interested in many diverse things, he also knows how to write quite well! The only thing I question is his seeming ability to remember specifics of acid trips taken 40 years ago! If I could invite a group of musicians to dinner, Phil and John Lennon on definitiely on the A list.

Bill, tgo

bassman10096 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2005, 09:00:24 PM »

I ordered mine from Powells last week. Came across a discussion of the book at http://p096.ezboard.com/fthedudepitfrm32.showMessage?topicID=480.topic over the weekend. Interesting perspectives. Do NOT fail to check out pix of the Guild M-85 Lesh GAVE AWAY!!

keavin · « **Reply #11 on:** April 22, 2005, 09:03:09 AM »

http://www.classicrockconcertphotos.net/

lbpesq · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2005, 10:53:40 PM »

Finished the book. Highly recommend it, for deadheads, (especially deadhead musicians - lots of great insight into the crafting of the music), anyone with interest in the S.F. sound, the '60s, indeed the very alembic from which the company Alembic emerged. A refreshingly down to earth inside perspective of the dead phenomena. Joe Bob sez check it out.

Bill, tgo

jacko · « **Reply #13 on:** April 28, 2005, 01:24:47 AM »

My copy finally arrived in scotland yesterday. As Bill says, it's very well written and very interesting. I managed to get to chapter 4 over lunch. There are some very good GD photo's that I haven't seen in other publications and obviously one or two Lesh family snaps that give the book a more intimate feel.
The music on the cd is pretty much what you'd expect from the dead and despite Bills sour grapes, cardboard cowboy isn't abad track at all. Particularly poignant is the rendition of Box of Rain that Phil explains was the last song the Grateful Dead ever played (presumably before Jerry passed away).
Gets an 'A+' from me ;-)

graeme

kmh364 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 28, 2005, 10:17:54 AM »

Anybody going to either of the NYC-area Phil Lesh book signings to meet the man himself?

http://www.phillesh.net/