Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2013) Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Scott W. Allen Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1478719435 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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By John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead:
This book is a gift ... it is from Scott Allen, an utterly shameless Deadhead, to the community he has loved for a long time. It is, in one sense, a historical textbook. The author understands that the real object of his adoration is not the band, but the Mysterious Creature which sometimes arises between them and the audience, which all of us create and of which each of us should be properly in awe. I hope you will accept this book with the grace in which it's given. As a fairly shameless Deadhead myself, I am grateful for it.
Aces Back to Back: A joy - (5 stars)
Feb 16, 2014
The author is a fan but he's a damn good historian and writer. He recounts the group's history from their earliest roots and takes us right up to the Furthur concerts in Riviera Maya this past January. Few moments in the Dead's history in-between are missed. The book celebrates the most minute but doesn't forget the glory. All the key players are here, too: Cassady, Kerouac, Kesey, Hunter, Barlow, Bill Graham, et. al. Aces Back to Back: A magical transporter taking me back for one last night with the band I still love.
Aces Back to Back: Both objective and devotional - (5 stars)
Roseann & Robert Pistella Feb 9, 2014
Aces Back to Back is a concise and accurate account of the life of one of the greatest of all rock groups, the Grateful Dead. Author Scott Allen was there, and this is his loving testament to the band that changed music and the world. I have over a dozen books on the Grateful Dead, and this one is my 'official' Dead reference. A MUST HAVE.
Ace Back to Back - Amazing read ! (5 stars)
Karen M. Feb 20 '14
I enjoyed Mr. Allen's work with Relix, so it was with great anticipation that I read Aces Back to Back. Allen has maintained his enthusiastic style of writing about the Grateful Dead & all things Dead: the Wall of Sound, the Irwin guitars, the tours of Europe. And things non-Dead: his sweeping history name-checks bands like Love, Sixto Rodriguez & the Good Rats. The drawings are quite compelling, just like the book. It answered a lot of questions for me as a long-time Deadhead. An honest & detailed account of the Dead's history.
Ace Back to Back - Really good read !
Henrietta M.
March 9, 2014
We just finished this book, really good read!~
From the Author
I am blessed to have received the support of Ice Nine Publishing and John Perry Barlow and I am thankful for that. I worked diligently on this book. This version took me four years to write. I began during the last week of December, 2009 and finished, curiously, during the last week of December, 2013. I wrote from the heart and, as Robert Hunter would say, "laid it down dirty and picked it up clean." I didn't engage in any sensationalism or exploitation of the Grateful Dead or Garcia and used the facts as a guide for my narrative. Because "the compass always points to Terrapin." See all Editorial Reviews
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- Paperback: 178 pages
- Publisher: Outskirts Press (February 6, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1478719435
- ISBN-13: 978-1478719434
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
"We were hot, feeling our oats, and surprising each other onstage. We could hear and feel each other thinking, and we could intuit each other's moves." Bob Weir.
I know this has already been reviewed, but I just had to throw my two cents in. In a nutshell--this is a cool little book--for Deadheads and non-Heads looking for information on the band, that whole era, and the music. The chronological timeline layout is easy to read and understand, and the pencil drawings of various important people in the Grateful Dead world are great and help give the book a real organic warmth. Reading this book is like getting a present from a knowledgeable, good friend. I gave this four "stars" because there's nothing really new here--it's just a cool book on The Dead--and I've been a fan (before the term "Deadhead" was coined) since 1967. I was also lucky enough to go to college in the Bay Area in the late 60's/early 70's, and heard/experienced The Dead (along with just about every other band that played in the Bay Area) a number of times. But I can certainly understand why many fans would rate this book as five "stars"--to each his own.
For longtime Deadheads, while there's probably not too much in the way of new information, it's the layout that gives this great little book it's identity. This isn't a strict scholarly attempt at telling The Dead's story--more like a knowledgeable friend telling you the band's history. The author begins by incorporating Neal Cassady ("the ultimate person as art". J. Garcia), Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Hoffman and LSD, the Merry Pranksters, and the Acid Tests into the beginnings of that whole period of change and "newness". Virtually every touchstone (Joplin/Big Brother, The S.F.
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