Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

by Steve Parish, Joe Layden, Bob Weir Narrated by Sean Runnette

Overview

Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him and after getting out he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a job moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion. The first show he worked was a Grateful Dead concert in July of 1969 and Parish was captivated by the music. A life seemingly headed nowhere had suddenly found its calling as he fell in quickly with a band of likeminded misfits who formed the nucleus of what would be the greatest road crew in rock 'n' roll history.



Parish traveled to California, where his apprenticeship began. Working for the band for free and learning his craft, Parish got to know Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Billy, and Mickey and through the years they forged an unbreakable bond. He became very close with Garcia in particular, acting as his personal roadie and later manager for his solo performances and Garcia Band shows.



Home Before Daylight is a story of friendship, of music and redemption. It is a piece of music history, one that reflects the American spirit of adventure and brotherhood. Seen through Steve Parish's eyes and experiences, the Grateful Dead's wild ride has never been so revealing.

Editorial Reviews

The Washington Post

Steve Parish's Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead, is people's history of a kind. Parish is neither a professional writer (his book is co-written with Joe Layden, a journalist) nor an intellectual, but a roadie. His casual first-person narrative will interest readers who want an insider's view of the world's most legendary touring band and its familial entourage. Home Before Daylight is a charmingly naive, anecdotal account of the Dead's long strange trip. In its modest way, it supports certain sacred myths about its subject -- that the Dead were egalitarian in all things, that they actually shared meals and hotel rooms with the hired help, that drugs and sex were as free-flowing as they were guilt-free. — Hans Eisenbeis

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173539281
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged

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