Searching for the Sound
Subtitle:  My Life with the Grateful Dead
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: April 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780316009980
Subjects: Rock Music; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - Rock; Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians; Composers & Musicians - General; 1940-; Bass guitarists; Biography; Grateful Dead (Musical group); Lesh, Phil,; Rock musicians; United States
First sentence: I have always considered myself a very lucky man.
Description: The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. Lesh first met Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of East Palo Alto, California. At Garcia's suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass, joining him in a new band that blended R & B, country, and rock and roll with an experimental fervor. Now Lesh offers the first behind-the-scenes history of the Dead, from their first gigs to the legendary Acid Tests, in San Francisco's Summer of Love, at Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont, and the Pyramids.--From publisher description.