The Grateful Dead's manager provides an eyewitness account of the band's history, from the writing of their greatest songs and their encounters with other celebrities to their emergence as cultural icons. Filled with an insider's never-before-told stories of revolutionary music and wild antics, this memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead's seminal years from 1965-1985. 31 photos. The World's Biggest Crystal 3(5) The Octagon is in Place 8(13) Plaid Iguanas 21(15) Acid Rain 36(15) 710 Ashbury 51(25) TheGathering of the Tribes 76(21) High Noon in the Haight 97(16) Anthem of the Sun 113(22) Whores, Wars, Weed and the Wild, Wild Northwest 135(27) This Darkness Got to Give 162(24) Two for the Road 186(13) Box of Rain 199(17) We're All Bozos on this Bus 216(11) Ship of Fools 227(8) Barbarians in Europe 235(18) Blues for Allah 253(11) Zeno's Lullaby 264(14) Trouble Behind 278(20) A Terrapin on Shakedown Street 298(14) Up in smoke 312(25) Before I Get Old 337(16) chief smoking Moccasin 353(14) Afterword: Adios, Black Jack 367(4) Index 371