Robert Hunter

Gebundenes Buch

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter

Beschreibung

"In these pages, readers are privy to the early days of Hunter, Garcia, and their cohorts, who sit at coffee shops passing around a single cup of bottomless coffee because they lacked the funds for more than one. Follow these truth-seeking souls into the stacks at Kepler's Books, renting instruments at Swain's House of Music, and through the countryside on mind-expanding road trips. Witness impromptu jams, inspired intellectual pranks, and a dialogue that is, by turns, amusing and brilliant and outrageous. Hunter shares his impressions of his first gig with Garcia for a college audience, along with descriptions of his most intense dreams and psychedelic explorations. All of it, enlivened by Hunter's visionary spirit and profound ideas about creativity and collaboration"--

Autor

Robert Hunter was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead. As a young man in Palo Alto, he met Jerry Garcia, and the two embarked on a lifelong collaboration. Hunter wrote many of the Dead’s most enduring songs, including “Dark Star,” “Ripple,” and “Terrapin Station.” He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the Grateful Dead in 1994.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780306835155
• ISBN-10: 0306835150
• Artikelnr.: 70234856

Rezensionen

The Silver Snarling Trumpet is written in what reads, at times, like ersatz Proust. Sleeping and waking up, and the experiences of those two states, constitute many scenes. There's a near-metaphysical focus on the quality of a certain day, a mood, a light; the book's point-of-view feels somewhere between childlike and mystical . . . It feels to me like part of an archive that's more appealing to the average reader than the compendium of ephemera and historical material that exists about and around the Grateful Dead. It isn't the kind of exacting, in-the-weeds account that might excite an obsessive. Rather, with its periods of alternating anticipation and disillusionment, The Silver Snarling Trumpet captures something about youth, what youth feels like and especially felt like then. Telegraph, ____

The Silver Snarling Trumpet is written in what reads, at times, like ersatz Proust. Sleeping and waking up, and the experiences of those two states, constitute many scenes. There's a near-metaphysical focus on the quality of a certain day, a mood, a light; the book's point-of-view feels somewhere between childlike and mystical . . . It feels to me like part of an archive that's more appealing to the average reader than the compendium of ephemera and historical material that exists about and around the Grateful Dead. It isn't the kind of exacting, in-the-weeds account that might excite an obsessive. Rather, with its periods of alternating anticipation and disillusionment, The Silver Snarling Trumpet captures something about youth, what youth feels like and especially felt like then. Telegraph, ****