The Silver Snarling Trumpet

Foreword by John Mayer? wtf?

^^Foreword by John Mayer? wtf?^^

Agree.  Seems super unheady to me, dude is OK but he had nothing to do with THE GRATEFUL DEAD, that's the band I love. 

Also the title of the book is: The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead―The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter 

Not the birth of Dead and Company. Almost comical, I will still most likely buy this book tho'.

They should have had Phil or Bobby do the forward, or someone like Alan Trist. Even Big Steve would've been better than Mayer.

Nevertheless, this is Hunter's writing we're talking about, so I already pulled the pre-order trigger. I'll just have to surgically excise Mayer's grimy bit when it gets here.

Edit: You cracked me up, Walstib. Thanks for that.

Didn't you hear? Mayer Industries bought the rights to Robert Hunter's everlasting soul as a capital market relative value hedge fund investment with one night's proceeds from Sphere. With bit coin, of course.

Early birds get the Mayer autograph. 

Too late, the legacy has been sold to a pop tart and a Hollywood shark.

I’ve been unable to put this down since its arrival… I’ve been deeply affected by the loss of a long standing guru and mentor of mine who passed on 10/3, author John Gierach. This book could not have arrived at a better time. Once again, Hunter rescues me in a time of need. Believe it if you need it…

Interview with Gans and McNally starts at 41:15

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Look forward to reading Hunter's book.

Mayer chosen (by who?) to write the introduction is a cruel joke. Did Mayer ever meet, or know, Robert Hunter?

I first encountered John Mayer when he opened for Phil that New Year's run. Not particularly impressed. Went to one Dead & Co show when they started out. Not too impressed by that either. Certainly not $100 bucks a ticket impressed.

But this book is for Hunter's words which I am sure are insightful and wise.

Looking forward to getting my copy. Mayer's words will be removed.

Still haven't received my copy, but GQ has an excerpt:

What It's Like To Play In A Band With Some Guy Named Jerry Garcia by Robert Hunter

https://www.gq.com/story/what-its-like-to-play-in-a-band-with-jerry-garcia

Mine came the other day but I haven't started it yet. 

"We were different from other human creatures and knew it; reveled in it and eventually began to lose the distinction as we became too aware of it and time extracted its toll from youth. But a time of life that is an eternity in itself has no need for foresight and lives each day for itself; judging it on its own merits and letting it slip wherever time itself slips to, scarcely realizing that when a summer day dies, it is just as dead as any fly that has given up the ghost in a multitude of enticing spiderwebs"

While you are waiting for it...

http://www.levity.com/orfeo/index.part1.html

John 'Cash Cow' Mayer. Might as well put his name on it to sell a few more copies.

Next up will be him adding unfinished guitar parts and vocals for the final GD album.

I actually liked his forward. Looks like I enjoy reading him better than listening to him

Makes perfect sense.  Mayer plays all-world Butt Trumpet.

Hunter on Garcia...Keep in mind this is his impression of him while they were both still teenagers….

“He played the guitar anywhere from twenty-four to thirty-eight hours a day, which would tend to be unnerving even if he were Segovia. However, he was not Segovia; he was Jerry. And the very act of being Jerry was, in his estimation, an excuse for almost any-thing. He had the easygoing self-assurance of a person who is used to being forgiven for any gaucheness he might choose to perpetrate on his contemporaries, so he committed them with an amazing regularity and a completely innocent conscience.”

I'm purposely not reading this thread (because I'm going to buy the book specifically to read on the 6 hr flight to CA to see Zero in November), but it's difficult to ignore it. Can't wait!

You won't be disappointed. This lovely read captures perfectly that post beat/pre hippie era and you can just feel it in the words. The beat writers influences are certainly felt but the trajectory is certainly free from categorizing. I've been savoring every word. I've also been re listening to the Before the Dead material as I read. This is truly an amazing account and a real gift to hold in my hands. Held against what was happening near simultaneously in Greenwich Village, these were truly extraordinary times