num_pages: 325
description: 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.
language: English
title: Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia
titlecomplete: Captain Trips: A Biography of Jerry Garcia
genres: Biography, Autobiography, Music, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 292
publisher: Da Capo Press