Searching for the Sound:My Life in the Grateful Dead - Phil Lesh Audiobook

Written by Phil Lesh
Read by Phil Lesh
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date: April 19, 2005
Duration: 05:33:12

Phil Lesh first met Jerry Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of Palo Alto, California. At Garcia’s suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass and joined him in a new group that blended R & B, country, and rock ‘n’ roll with an experimental fervor never before heard.
In time for the Grateful Dead’s fortieth anniversary, Phil Lesh offers the first behind-the-scenes history of the Dead. Lesh chronicles how the Dead’s signature sound emerged, flowed, and swelled to reach millions of devoted fans, from their first gigs at Frenchy’s Bikini-A-Go-Go for an audience of three, to the legendary Acid Tests, to packed stadiums around the world.

In San Francisco during the Summer of Love, at Woodstock, Altamont, and the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Grateful Dead have been at the center of some of rock’s defining moments. Phil Lesh recounts what it’s been like to live at the heart of this whirlwind—impressing Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, sharing the stage with Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and the Rolling Stones. Lesh describes what it was like to storm heaven night after night—and the price he and others have paid. Bad management, drug addictions, depression, and insecurities persistently plagued the band members and would culminate with the most tragic blow of all—the death of Jerry Garcia.

Searching for the Sound is a ruthlessly honest look inside one of the greatest American bands. It includes a bonus live recording of Box of Rain performed on March 19, 1990 at the Hartford Civic Center, Hartford Connecticut.

AudioFile lists a 2005 recording read by Nick Landrum.

This is a re-up as-is of the torrent on site without the non-audio files that killed it.