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jacko
Intermediate Member
Username: jacko

Post Number: 164
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 5:15 am:   Edit Post

In case you're interested, Phil Lesh has an autobiography out - Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead.
Available from http://www.powells.com/
My copy is even now winging its way to the UK along with a Grateful Dead Rarities CD and signed book plate (whatever that is)

graeme
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 412
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:31 am:   Edit Post

I just ordered the book yesterday from Amazon.com. No CD, no signed bookplate. Bummer. I'm going to check when I get to the office if I can cancel and order through Powells. Thanks for the heads up.

Bill, tgo
jacko
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Username: jacko

Post Number: 165
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:33 am:   Edit Post

I'd check first bill. Might have been a pre-order deal.

graeme
jacko
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Username: jacko

Post Number: 166
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:37 am:   Edit Post

Nope, Just checked and they still show the goodies.

graeme
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 413
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:48 am:   Edit Post

I just checked the web sites. Powell's deal is still going on. It's too late to cancel my Amazon order, but the Amazon price is $9 less than Powell's and includes free shipping. Please give us all a review of the CD when you get it. I've never heard of "Cardboard Cowboy", the previously unreleased '66 Dead tune. Of course my sour grapes rationalization is that if it were any good, why wait 39 years to release it?

Bill, tgo
jacko
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Username: jacko

Post Number: 167
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:51 am:   Edit Post

Will do. i doubt if I'd have got free delivery to the UK though. Still no idea what a 'book plate' is

graeme
effclef
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Username: effclef

Post Number: 317
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 8:06 am:   Edit Post

Book plates are those labels for the inside front cover - EX LIBRIS - etc. "This Book Belongs To."

So it'll have Phils signature there. You can say you got it at his garage sale. Garden sale? Book rally? Whatever they call them in the UK.

:-)

EffClef
jacko
Intermediate Member
Username: jacko

Post Number: 168
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 8:10 am:   Edit Post

Thanks andy. I could fill it in 'to graeme, the best bass player never to have played with the dead - love phil Lesh' LOL!
tom_z
Intermediate Member
Username: tom_z

Post Number: 129
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 - 7:37 pm:   Edit Post

Just received my copy from Powells and listened to the accompanying CD. It has eight tracks - four musical tracks each with a spoken commentary by Phil - very nice. Skimming the contents briefly, I noticed a handful of references to Bear, Ron W. and Alembic. Can't wait to dig in!

Oh yeah, there's also a nice little bookplate signed by Phil.

Tom
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 423
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 - 7:48 pm:   Edit Post

I'm about a quarter of the way through the book. I love it! Phil is not only very bright and interested in many diverse things, he also knows how to write quite well! The only thing I question is his seeming ability to remember specifics of acid trips taken 40 years ago! If I could invite a group of musicians to dinner, Phil and John Lennon on definitiely on the "A" list.

Bill, tgo
bassman10096
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Username: bassman10096

Post Number: 716
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 - 9:00 pm:   Edit Post

I ordered mine from Powells last week. Came across a discussion of the book at http://p096.ezboard.com/fthedudepitfrm32.showMessage?topicID=480.topic over the weekend. Interesting perspectives. Do NOT fail to check out pix of the Guild M-85 Lesh GAVE AWAY!!
keavin
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Username: keavin

Post Number: 546
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Friday, April 22, 2005 - 9:03 am:   Edit Post

http://www.classicrockconcertphotos.net/
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 433
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 10:53 pm:   Edit Post

Finished the book. Highly recommend it, for deadheads, (especially deadhead musicians - lots of great insight into the crafting of the music), anyone with interest in the S.F. sound, the '60s, indeed the very alembic from which the company Alembic emerged. A refreshingly down to earth inside perspective of the dead phenomena. Joe Bob sez "check it out".

Bill, tgo
jacko
Intermediate Member
Username: jacko

Post Number: 175
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 1:24 am:   Edit Post

My copy finally arrived in scotland yesterday. As Bill says, it's very well written and very interesting. I managed to get to chapter 4 over lunch. There are some very good GD photo's that I haven't seen in other publications and obviously one or two Lesh family snaps that give the book a more intimate feel.
The music on the cd is pretty much what you'd expect from the dead and despite Bills sour grapes, cardboard cowboy isn't abad track at all. Particularly poignant is the rendition of Box of Rain that Phil explains was the last song the Grateful Dead ever played (presumably before Jerry passed away).
Gets an 'A+' from me ;-)

graeme
kmh364
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Username: kmh364

Post Number: 848
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 10:17 am:   Edit Post

Anybody going to either of the NYC-area Phil Lesh book signings to meet the man himself?

http://www.phillesh.net/
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 849
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2005 - 10:43 am:   Edit Post

Sorry, repeat post.

(Message edited by kmh364 on April 28, 2005)
poor_nigel
Senior Member
Username: poor_nigel

Post Number: 500
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:57 am:   Edit Post

I ordered this book on the 13th and it just arrived today. It is unsigned - So Powells buyers beware. Just FYI, so maybe someone else does not get disappointed, also. I highly doubt Phil is coming to any book stores within 200 miles of the Wasteland for signing copies, so I am a bit disappointed.
tom_z
Intermediate Member
Username: tom_z

Post Number: 132
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 2:11 pm:   Edit Post

Thomas - my book from Powells was unsigned as well. The signed bookplate was, if I recall, inside the CD jacket.

Tom
poor_nigel
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Username: poor_nigel

Post Number: 501
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 3:09 pm:   Edit Post

Hey Tom.

And so it was. Happiness abounds. Thanks!
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 435
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 3:39 pm:   Edit Post

I just found out I'm getting a second copy for my birthday. Anyone interested in trading something for a copy of Phil's book? A Series 1 maybe, or a 12 string? Be creative. No reasonable offer refused!

Bill, tgo
pas
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Username: pas

Post Number: 32
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 10:42 am:   Edit Post

I'll be headed over to meet Phil tommorow @ the Borders in Vienna, VA. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book, but I want to finish it before I comment. I've previously read the books by Dennis McNally, Rock Scully & Steve Parrish. Interesting to hear some of the same stories, as seen through a variety of perspectives.
811952
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Username: 811952

Post Number: 394
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Monday, May 02, 2005 - 9:30 am:   Edit Post

audio interview with Phil can be found here:

http://airamericaradio.com/layout.asp?baseurl=TheAlFrankenShow/4-29-05/AlFranken.wma

john
bassman10096
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Username: bassman10096

Post Number: 718
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:57 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks for the link, John. Nice interview segment.
Bill

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