MEDIA COOL
The Grateful Dead have been unfashionable for a very long time. Hit records? Not yet. Videos? Not likely. Media Coverage? Not much. But then, being gloriously out of step with the music business has always been one of their most endearing qualities.
MEDIA COOL
DEPARTMENTS
This Month�s Media Cool was written by Keith A. Gordon, Richard C. Walls, Frank Fox,
J. Kordosh and Richard Riegel.
PLAYING IN THE BAND
By
David Gans
and
Peter Simon
(St. Martin�s Press)
The Grateful Dead have been unfashionable for a very long time. Hit records? Not yet. Videos? Not likely. Media Coverage? Not much. But then, being gloriously out of step with the music business has always been one of their most endearing qualities. This book (published as The Dead celebrate their 20th anniversary) is composed of excerpts from interviews with band members and associates. These insightful, often hilarious comments reveal both a passion for improvisational music and dedication to exuberant fun. The accompanying pictures are delight, particularly the ones from the Haight-Ashbury days, and the gleeful, impish charm of these early portraits is still seductive. There they are—kids again—eyes aglow with acid inspiration, possessed of a vision all their own. And they�ve always been fashionable on Mars, anyway. F.F.
A PRIVATE FUNCTION (HandMade)