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Oct 11th 1989
Walkin' Blues
Oct 23 1989
Let The Good Times Roll
Oct 11th 1989
INTERVIEW
Interview with Peter Conners, Author of "Growing Up Dead" (The Hallucinated Confessions Of A Teenage deadhead)
See Below for links to Peter's Book.
I spliced some tunes in between talk. If you want to know the running order drop me a line.
Terrapin Station
July 15th 1989
Standing On The Moon>Turn On Your Lovelight
Oct 23rd 1989
Midnight Hour
1968 (Exact Date Unknown)
Truckin'>Smokestack Lightning
July 15th 1989
Being a Deadhead is not a two-hour experience. Being a Deadhead is a way of life. Thus, many stories in this book revolve around becoming and living as a Deadhead outside the Grateful Dead concert…For many Deadheads, being at a Dead show was a religious experience, and the resonances of that experience touched everything they did before and after the show. We were certainly pilgrims for the Dead. However, for every person, the feeling, the rationale, the path of finding and living the life of a Deadhead is different. This is mine.”—from the Introduction
Growing Up Dead
The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead
By Peter Conners
Peter Conners discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15. He was quickly drawn into a culture of music, marijuana, and emancipation from his parents—and after his first Dead concert on June 30, 1987, he was hooked. Between 1987 and 1995, he attended nearly 100 Dead shows nationwide, traveling with a makeshift “family” in a Volkswagen camper, selling drugs and whatever else earned him enough gas money to get to the next show. In Growing Up Dead, lifelong fan Conners divulges his journey from straight-laced suburban kid into Deadhead nomad—and then finally to mid-thirties dad.
This story of being a Deadhead isn’t one frequently told. Many books are either by Grateful Dead band members or insiders, but the majority of Deadheads didn’t have such access to the band. As Conners says, “We were just on the road, doing the best we could to get from show-to-show. So that was the story I wanted to tell: the story of a street-level Deadhead.” He provides riveting insight into the obsessive fandom that made the Grateful Dead the most successful touring band of all time—and a true cultural phenomenon.
But Growing Up Dead is also about a rebellious teenager trying to find his way through a society that he finds stifling. His path is surprisingly hopeful: “I was struggling,” he says, “but I also had the emboldening belief that I was on the road to something better. To my own creative fulfillment.” This drive pushes Conners toward the American subculture of the ’80s and mid-’90s, and he comments throughout his book on the movies, popular music, fashion, and politics of that time. His memoir will appeal not only to fans of The Dead, but to anyone interested in the underground music and subversive culture of this decade.
Peter Conners is author of a collection of prose poems, Of Whiskey and Winter, and a novella, Emily Ate the Wind, as well as editor of an anthology of avant-garde writing, PP/FF: An Anthology. He lives with his wife and three children in Rochester, New York. www.growingupdead.com
This spring, the four surviving members of the Grateful Dead will reunite for their first concert tour
in five years—performing under the shortened moniker The Dead—with over twenty shows in April and May.
Growing Up Dead will be published on April 15, 2009, to coincide with the reunion tour
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