| Author | Message | ||
| jacko
Intermediate Member Username: jacko Post Number: 164 Registered: 10-2002 |
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 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: jacko Post Number: 165 Registered: 10-2002 |
I'd check first bill. Might have been a pre-order deal. graeme | ||
| jacko
Intermediate Member Username: jacko Post Number: 166 Registered: 10-2002 |
Nope, Just checked and they still show the goodies. graeme | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 413 Registered: 7-2004 |
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
Intermediate Member Username: jacko Post Number: 167 Registered: 10-2002 |
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
Advanced Member Username: effclef Post Number: 317 Registered: 1-2004 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 716 Registered: 7-2003 |
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
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 546 Registered: 12-2002 |
http://www.classicrockconcertphotos.net/ | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 433 Registered: 7-2004 |
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 |
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
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 848 Registered: 9-2003 |
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 |
Sorry, repeat post. (Message edited by kmh364 on April 28, 2005) | ||
| poor_nigel
Senior Member Username: poor_nigel Post Number: 500 Registered: 7-2003 |
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 |
Thomas - my book from Powells was unsigned as well. The signed bookplate was, if I recall, inside the CD jacket. Tom | ||
| poor_nigel
Senior Member Username: poor_nigel Post Number: 501 Registered: 7-2003 |
Hey Tom. And so it was. Happiness abounds. Thanks! | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 435 Registered: 7-2004 |
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
Junior Username: pas Post Number: 32 Registered: 3-2003 |
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
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 394 Registered: 10-2003 |
audio interview with Phil can be found here: http://airamericaradio.com/layout.asp?baseurl=TheAlFrankenShow/4-29-05/AlFranken.wma john | ||
| bassman10096
Senior Member Username: bassman10096 Post Number: 718 Registered: 7-2003 |
Thanks for the link, John. Nice interview segment. Bill |
