Fare Thee Well, Joel Selvin
Fare Thee Well, Joel Selvin
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Fare Thee Well
The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

Author: Joel Selvin, Pamela Turley

Narrator: John Glouchevitch

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 06/19/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995

The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him after his sudden death in 1995. So long defined by Garcia's artistic vision, the surviving "Core Four" were reduced to conflicting agendas, strained relationships, and catastrophic business decisions that would lead the iconic band into utter disarray for the next twenty years.

Acclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia's death, and in this book, he offers a never-before-explored insider account of the ebbs and flows that occurred in the decades that followed. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia's passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band's fiftieth anniversary-finally allowing for a proper, and joyous, sendoff of the group revered by so many.

About Joel Selvin

Joel Selvin has covered pop music since 1970 for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red and author of the award-winning Ricky Nelson and Summer of Love. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh

This kind of gossipy book about musicians is my guilty pleasure reading. There is a glut of information about the history of the Grateful Dead, but almost all of it ends with Jerry Garcia's death in 1995. However, the surviving members have continued to play the Grateful Dead songbook in various inc......more

Goodreads review by Rod

A Jam-Bands paradise and hell. I'm no deadhead. I didn't even like the Grateful Dead until Warren Haynes joined them around 2004 or so. Now I respect their music greatly (some of it anyway). I got to see them LIVE at the Gorge in Washington state with the Allman Brothers and Robert Hunter. I knew the......more

Goodreads review by Jason

I really enjoyed this book. I found it well written, full of interesting facts and anecdotes, and perfect for someone like me who did manage to see Grateful Dead in the nineties, but most of my experience with and appreciation for the Dead has come post 8/9/1995 (Jerry’s death - where the book start......more

Goodreads review by Rick

Well, I'm certainly taking Jill and Phil Lesh off my Christmas card list. I'm never sure whether I should read books like these that are certain to de-mystify the music we love by dissecting the process of making it, but we're grown ups now; we can take it. It's a thorough story of the Dead's post-J......more

Quotes

"This phenomenon after its leader dies and how and what it became is a great and inspiring story."--Marty Balin, founder of Jefferson Airplane

"A deep--and deeply reported--dive into the highs and lows of the Grateful Dead world post-1995, Fare Thee Well is the in-depth postscript we need on life after Garcia. As the surviving members navigate their jarring new world, you'll be shocked, surprised, and unexpectedly moved."--David Browne, author of So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead

"Fare Thee Well is a masterful summation of the agonies, trials, and tribulations that beset the Grateful Dead after Jerry Garcia passed away. It made me sigh with sorrow AND give thanks (virtually simultaneously) for such a gifted group of musicians. This book will appeal to every Deadhead on the planet. I loved it."--Sam Cutler, author of You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and Other Wonderful Reprobates

"As always, Joel Selvin boldly goes where others fear to tread. Fare Thee Well is essential reading for all those who have followed the saga of the good old Grateful Dead to this point in time."--Robert Greenfield, author of Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia and Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III

"Fare Thee Well tells the tale of how the Deadheads rescued the Grateful Dead from themselves. Bereft of their heart leader after Jerry Garcia died in 1995, the love of Deadheads kept the music alive so that the phenomena is not merely enduring but growing--long, strange, and still a trip."--Dennis McNally, author of A Long, Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead

"I felt like the child of a divorce, but this book showed me I never needed to worry, not when I was under the power of something as great as the Grateful Dead."--Steve Parish, author of Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

"A hundred years from now, Jerry Garcia may be remembered as a prophet and Bob, Mickey, Phil, and Billy as his disciples. Illuminating, astounding, and accurate, Fare Thee Well is a remarkable account of the successes and failures by the talented, individualist remaining members of the Grateful Dead since the death of their leader Jerry Garcia. I read it in one sitting."--Steve Miller, founder of the Steve Miller Band

"Most [Grateful Dead] books end with the 1995 death of Jerry Garcia. Fare Thee Well...takes the opposite approach...[it] examines every sad twist, turn, and betrayal involved in the Dead's various offshoot groups leading up to their 2015 Fare Thee Well reunion."
—Rolling Stone

"An unblinking and balanced look at the infighting, backbiting, rancor and resentments among the surviving 'core four' band members."—Paul Liberatore, Marin Independent Journal

"An enthusiastic but clear-eyed and enjoyably gossipy piece of modern rock history."—Publishers Weekly

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