What a gem of a book. Love reading about all the stories behind the lyrics! I will be reading this over and over. A true must have for all Deadheads

This is the authoritative text on the Grateful Dead's lyrics. It features lovely illustrations. In fact, I first read this book as part of a course on the Music of the Grateful Dead while attending UC Santa Cruz. Mr. Dodd was a research associate at UC Santa Cruz. There is a website on this very subject, http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl. Enjoy!

Lyrics to the songs of my favorite band. What's not to like? Also, lovely illustrations and annotations.

This book is so awesome! It lists all the Grateful Dead lyrics and gives you some insight to what they were all about! I'm 'Grateful' to have gotten my hands on this book. It's nice having the index of all the songs when I want to locate a certain song. I really enjoy all the graphics and photos in the book as well!

Although this does contain the complete annotated Grateful Dead lyrics with the addition of some covers, deadheads might be disappointed to find out it doesn't contain the most well known covers by them such as big river or el paso.Also, the annotations in this book aren't consistent, and I felt some things could've been annotated much more, and some songs much less. However, if you're a deadhead, it's still a good read. Gotta love the forward by Robert Hunter

Love using this while listening to the tunes. Gives you new outlooks and cross references. It goes by other dead song references and in general. I love the endless scope of the annotations! I learn so much every time I pick it up or check them out online. Online it's sometimes even more fun bc you see more feedback from other readers and how they have interpreted the lyrics.

Nice reading

Loved the whole book. The assembler/writers compiled an excellent tome. Highly recommend to all DeadHeads. As Mr. Spock would say: Fascinating!

The most exhaustive - exhausting - book of lyrics I've ever read; full of so many footnotes. A handful of brilliant lyrics - intriguing, elegiac, mercurial - from Robert Hunter. And then a lot of hippie tosh (also from Hunter - and the others). But it's all here. Literally, all of it. So much.

A book of wonderful insight into the lyrics of The Grateful Dead...References and inspiration galore...An incredibly interesting book...whether you consider yourself a big Grateful Dead fan or not.

Life Changer! A page to turn to during any of life's ups and downs. A work of art, beauty, and love. Probably the most cherished piece of my collection...except I don't exactly know where it is. Guess I'll have to get a replacement!

A Long Strange Trip

Reading a book of lyrics without listening to the songs makes little sense to me. Writing a review about said book is utterly stupid. So, I'm utterly stupid. Hardcore Deadheads own this book anyway. Newdeads shouldn't read the book, but listen to the music (and then get the book).

♫ Let there be songs to fill the air

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The best thing about this book is, that it has all the lyrics to the Grateful Dead compositions. A few covers are also included, but only about 3% of the covers are included. This book tries to give meaning to the lyrics, by explaining what a certain reference, or lyric might mean. In general it was helpful, but a lot of it was filler, like going on for three paragraphs about a certain bird that was named in a song. The best parts were when someone like Phil Lesh or Robert Hunter explained what a certain part of the song meant. These came from the source, so these I put more credit in. Although, most of these quotes were lifted from other books.

This was a pretty large volume, around 500 pages, with a lot of good artwork. It includes a foreword an a afterword by Hunter and Barlow, and it just is generally a beautiful book. Reading it through straight wasn't as satisfying as I thought it would have been, though. But I am glad I purchased it, because I do see the value of this book always being used as a reference.