The Dead [Paperback]

Hank Harrison (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 315 pages
• Publisher: Archives Pr (June 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 091850113X
• ISBN-13: 978-0918501134
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,447,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the usual bio, August 7, 2011

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Bobby T. (Bronx, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dead (Hardcover)

I read this book back in '80 when it first came out. Good inside story of the "scene" around San Fran and the Dead. I'm gonna read it again and then sell it, seeing that I could get a hundred bucks for it!!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flying eyes are classics., November 16, 2005

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Mike Bennett "Raoul Duke" (Lawrence, Ks USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dead (Paperback)

This book goes beneath everything you know about Mother Mcrees uptown jug champions, the Warlocks, the New Riders, the Pranksters, and anything else that the Dead spawned, or spawned the Dead. Cassady, Kesey, Mountain Girl...it's got the whole bunch. I highly recommend this book to any DeadHead, just to test your knowledge, or to a casual Dead listener, to inform them, it's a great read.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hank Goes Again, December 10, 2007

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PHILIP S WOLF (SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CA. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dead (Hardcover)

This 1980 book is Hank Harrison's second documentation about the world that surrounds The Grateful Dead. Along with this volume I still have my copy of: "The Dead Book" from 1973, Hank's first book on this subject.

As certain text and photographs are re-used from his earlier edition of the Dead story, I would say Hank learned to recycle long before the rest of us. This as was the 73 Book, never ever considered a straight-up rock-bio of the band. But, it IS interesting and from Hank's viewpoint it is at least a very entertaining look at this world of Deadness by way of extreme weirdness {almost in the style of the Beat Journals from the 1950's}.

Most reviews of: "The Dead" slighted this book as being too mainstream when they compared it to the 1973 edition, and there is a bit of truth found there as this volume isn't as far out there as "The Dead Book" but as a side-trip for this observers insight into Planet Dead, this 1980 book works well.

*Special Note* My copy was signed by the author at a place called: "The Archives Catalog" on Geary Blvd, San Francisco way back in 1980.
Alton Kelley's: "Flying Eyeball" cover design is very cool.
Three Stars