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Have you ever been cornered by an old hippie who, with bleary-eyed reverie, proceeds to tell you everything he knows about Jerry Garcia?

If you've never been so fortunate, Sandy Troy is here to help.

Published roughly a month before Garcia's death, Captain Trips hits the highlights of Garcia's life and innumerable music projects. Understandably, the lion's share is about the history of the Grateful Dead.

Avid Dead fan and chronicler Sandy Troy probes Jerry Garcia's personal and professional life through childhood and adolescence, Summer of Love acid tests, drug busts, three marriages, a brush with death, and his comeback.

The biography of Jerry Garcia, founder of the Grateful Dead, is the story of his innovative music, battle with drug addiction, and triumphant return from a.

Avid Dead fan and chronicler Sandy Troy probes Jerry Garcia's personal and professional life through childhood and adolescence, Summer of Love acid tests.

Captain Trips depicts the life, work, and philosophy of this nonconformist rock legend, counterculture hero, and symbol of the Sixties.

Captain Trips, a biography of Jerry Garcia, came out in the fall of to rave reviews, and became a bestseller when Garcia unexpectedly passed away.

Troy has great reverence for Jerry Garcia, who--in spite of his addictions and philandering--can pretty much do no wrong. I certainly wasn't looking to read a character assassination, but Troy tiptoes lightly around anything that could be controversial in order to paint a glowing picture of his hero Jerry.

That's fine, but the end result of Captain Trips is more of a hagiography than anything else. It's very lightweight reading, but at least it clips along at a steady pace and seems, by and large, factually accurate.

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