Home before daylight: my life on the road with the Grateful Dead
✍ Scribed by Parish, Steve; Layden, Joe
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312303532
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today.
Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him and after getting out he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a job moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion. The first show he worked was a Grateful Dead concert in July of 1969 and Parish was captivated by the music. A life seemingly headed nowhere had suddenly found its calling as he fell in quickly with a band of likeminded misfits who formed the nucleus of what would be the greatest road crew in rock 'n' roll history.
Parish traveled to California where his apprenticeship began. Working for the band for free and learning his craft, Parish got to know Jerry, Bobby,...