Books

Every story has a start... Follow the Grateful Dead's transformation from a bar band performing as the Warlocks to becoming the creators of their own sound and forefathers for the jamband culture with GRATEFUL DEAD ORIGINS, an original graphic no...

208 page hard cover coffee table book featuring Jay Blakesberg's photographs of Jerry Garcia on and offstage with members of the Grateful Dead, guest musicians, frien...

A collection of the most widely coveted and fiercely protected treasures of the Grateful Dead world, this book reproduces, in full color, all 26 of the official Grateful Dead backstage passes produced from 1983 to 1995. Includes 10 color photos and 50 color illustrations. 80 pages

Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead by Bill Kreutzmann Signed posters are officially SOLD OUT. Signed copies of the book are still available. Big News! Here, exclusively, is the cover for Bill Kreutzmann’s...

Part autobiography and personal memoir, Mickey Hart vividly accounts how, from the beginning of time, humanity has celebrated, buried the dead, gone to war, married and worshipped to the sound of drums, gongs, and rattles. In his conversations with the late Joseph Campbell, we see how the great m...

A treasure trove of memorabilia, photos and writings, the Grateful Dead Family Album is both a candid family history of one of America's most enduring rock bands and a priceless time capsule of '60s rock culture and counterculture. Filled with anecdotes and never-before-seen photos.

You only thought you knew everything there is to know about the Dead. The Grateful Dead Scrapbook, helmed by veteran rock writer Ben-Fong Torres, takes you on a guided tour through the Grateful Dead’s entire musical career. The beautifully designed 64-page hardcover album includes never-...

Ranging from the "big bang" to the present, from Mesopotamia to Bunker Hill, Planet Drum uses hundreds of breathtaking images to take a panoramic look at the power and mystery of percussion and provide a stunning pictorial map of the world beat.