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The Grateful Dead Scrapbook: Ben Fong-Torres

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Partner:: Booksmith
Location:: Booksmith
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 10.07.09
Speaker:: Ben Fong-Torres
Tags:: folk music; music history; grateful dead

Summary: Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration. The Grateful Dead Scrapbook collects rare removable memorabilia and evocative images culled from the Grateful Dead Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including never-before-published photos, flyers, fan letters, and other ephemera.

To accompany the eye-popping visuals, renowned journalist Ben Fong-Torres draws on his personal knowledge of the San Francisco music scene in a rich text that conveys the Grateful Dead's story in a fresh way, centering each chapter on a pivotal song that encapsulates a certain era of the group's songwriting, performance, and community.

An attractive slipcase and an audio CD round out the book's beautiful design, delivering a richly illustrated volume as colorful as the band itself.

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Ben Fong-Torres

Ben Fong-Torres has published six books including his best-selling memoirs, The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese American, his first collection of articles from his years at Rolling Stone, Not Fade Away and his latest, a second collection, Becoming Almost Famous.

He is also a broadcaster and the radio columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle.

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01.: Origins of the Book

03 min 29 sec

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02.: The Contents of the Scrapbook

02 min 15 sec

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03.: Jerry Garcia Interview Excerpt: The Success of 'Alabama Getaway'

02 min 43 sec

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04.: Chapter on 'Dark Star'

02 min 06 sec

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05.: Jerry Garcia's Commentary on 'Dark Star'

01 min 17 sec

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06.: An Unpublished Chapter on 'Truckin''

02 min 48 sec

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07.: Jerry Garcia Interview Excerpt: The San Francisco Music Scene

02 min 48 sec

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08.: Chapter on 'Touch of Grey'

02 min 42 sec

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09.: Q & A

00 min 14 sec

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10.: Q1: On Not Being a Deadhead

00 min 59 sec

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11.: Q2: Deciding to Write the Book

00 min 54 sec

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12.: Q3: The Purpose of Deadlines

01 min 21 sec

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13.: Q4: Kingfish and Other Grateful Dead Side Projects

00 min 40 sec

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14.: Q5: The Dead's Connection to the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood

02 min 29 sec

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15.: Q6: The Dead's Response to the Book

00 min 36 sec

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16.: Q7: The Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead

01 min 04 sec

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17.: Q8: Looking Back on 'Almost Famous'

01 min 05 sec

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18.: Q9: Comparing the Music Scenes from the 1960's and Today

04 min 39 sec

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19.: Q10: The Early Days of 'Rolling Stone'

03 min 00 sec

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20.: Q11: Favorite Grateful Dead Songs

00 min 37 sec

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21.: Q12: Advice for Young Artists

01 min 46 sec

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Ben Fong-Torres Remembers Early Days of Rolling Stone

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Rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres recalls his experience as an editor at Rolling Stone during the magazine's early days.

"There were no studies or focus groups," he says, remembering the loose creativity of the early editorial strategy.
710 Ashbury: The Grateful Dead's 'Head'-quarters

02 min 26 sec

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Rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres describes the Grateful Dead's original base of operations at 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

Grateful Dead: U.S. rock group. It was formed in San Francisco in the mid-1960s by Jerry Garcia (1942–95) on guitar, Phil Lesh (b. 1940) on bass, Ron (“Pigpen”) McKernan (1945–73) on keyboards, Bob Weir (b. 1947) on guitar, and Bill Kreutzmann (b. 1946) on drums. The Grateful Dead emerged from the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic-drug-and-music scene, later gaining fame for performing at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967) and Woodstock. Though they regularly released albums, their focus was on live music. They became one of the country's most successful touring bands, known for Garcia's marathon four-hour musical meanderings and for their entourage of “Deadheads,” a devoted legion of nomadic fans who followed the band in spirited makeshift communities. In the late 1980s a new generation of fans made the Grateful Dead the most successful touring band in the world. They stopped touring after Garcia died of a heart attack at a drug rehabilitation centre.; Grateful Dead on britannica.com