Snag Dancing With The Dead--A Photographic Memoir Produced By Rosie McGee Accessible In Publication
not a deadhead by any means, but it was very interesting to read about the community that surrounded the musicians.
McGee has a true insider's perspective and doesn't whitewash the challenges of coming of age and finding companionship in an era of free love.
Photographer and Grateful Dead insider Rosie McGee tells dozens of previouslyuntold stories of living, traveling and working with the Dead during their first decade as a band.
The book is illustrated withof her rare and candid photographs, many never before seen in print, Not just for Deadheads or baby boomersthis book is for anyone seeking a woman's intimate account of the San Francisco rock music community in the Sixties, rare in a field of such books most often written by men.
Included are firsthand stories of Autumn Records The Matrix nightclub the Acid Tests Olompali life in the HaightAshbury the Human BeIn the Grateful Dead and the author's bust atAshbury New York, Toronto and Montreal with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane Monterey Pop Altamont the Dead's Europe 'tour and encounters with individuals as diverse as Tom Donahue, Phil Spector, Lenny Bruce, Janis Joplin, Owsley
Stanley, Timothy Leary, Jesse Colin Young, Julie Christie and many others.
Obviously Rosie's no Blair Jackson but I did really appreciate the perspective she brought to the book and a look into the larger scene outside of the Dead in thes.
I wish the publishing quality was a bit higher so the photos could have been reproduced more cleanly but as it is it's a new look into the events and people of the day.
Good read
Good read
enjoyed this very much but would of love to heard about her life with her man and about having her son did she marry is he living ,how she felt about when Jerry died and more tell me more Rosie Rosie McGee is well known for her many interesting photographs taken over the years as an intimate of both Phil Lesh and the offices of the Grateful Dead.
She relates her life from childhood in Paris, to San Francisco, the early days long lost, pre 'of Psychedelic San Francisco, and many side adventures working with Tom Donahue of KYA promoting concerts at the Cow Palace, long before the Grateful Dead ever came to play there.
She also shared a connection with Jerry Garcia to Lenny Bruce, one of the most misunderstood personages of the era and lived to tell the tale.
Wonderful stories, not just of the Dead, but of the Medicine Ball Caravan ofand of the early years of the band.
. . and she IS a wonferful photographer! I was excited when I started listening to this book and really enjoyed for about the first half.
I realize that the photos probably brought the book to life, which I intend to check out one day, but there were times I felt that it started to fall flat and lose my interest.
This book was a delightful read, from beginning to end, "Dancing With the Dead A Photographic Memoir" shares some neverbefore published photos of the Grateful Dead and othersmusicians and performers, taken by the author herself.
In addition is her story, which I can appreciate, as I was one of the many hippie kids who went through those years in S.
F. , including hanging out a couple of times atAshbury with my friend Chaz, who introduced me to Ron Pigpen McKernan.
Rosie's memories are as an insider, with a fully authentic glimpse of the lives of those involved in thes San Francisco Music Scene.
How lucky for us that it was she was also a gifted photographer! The author leads you through those years with honesty and candor without being too graphic or pedantic,with some measure of introspection.
In the right place at the right time, Rosie and her camera captured the flavor of a part of thes that we would never have known about, had she not so generously shared her story with us, in "Dancing with the Dead A Photographic Memoir".
I loved this book!! Rosie's account of her time with the Grateful Dead fromwas a page turner.
This is a must read for Dead Heads, I was born Florence Nathan in Paris, France, the daughter of two Parisians who owned a bookstore, When I was five, we emigrated to the U, S. where I entered a San Francisco kindergarten speaking only French, I started taking photographs when I was, about the time I wrote my first short story for an English class.
At, I was hired by legendary DJ Big Daddy Tom Donahue to work for his Autumn Records and Tempo Productions it changed my life forever.
If that wasnt enough of a change, I moved in with Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh at the bands L.
A. home not long after we met in December of, When we split late in, I remained in the Deads inner circle as their travel agent, French interpreter, onstage dancing girl and the offi I was born Florence Nathan in Paris, France, the daughter of two Parisians who owned a bookstore.
When I was five, we emigrated to the U, S. where I entered a San Francisco kindergarten speaking only French, I started taking photographs when I was, about the time I wrote my first short story for an English class.
At, I was hired by legendary DJ "Big Daddy" Tom Donahue to work for his Autumn Records and Tempo Productions it changed my life forever.
If that wasn't enough of a change, I moved in with Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh at the band's L.
A. home not long after we met in December of, When we split late in, I remained in the Dead's inner circle as their travel agent, French interpreter, onstage dancing girl and the office manager for Alembic, the band's sound and recording team.
There followed many years of wandering and moving, taking photos and writing mostly in secret, It wasbefore the first publication of my essays in Jerilyn Brandelius' wonderful book, "The Grateful Dead Family Album".
I love being back in the San Francisco Bay Area after ayear absence, still enjoy going to clubs and concerts and have frequent reunions with my many friends from back in the day.
I have a long haired counterculture son who lives in Eugene, Oregon, There was no need for him to rebel, This is my first book, sitelink.