Hunter's Silver Snarling Trumpet

I got really excited when I heard that lost writings of Robert Hunter were to be released. https://consequence.net/2024/04/grateful-dead-robert-hunter-lost-manuscr...

Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter’s long-lost manuscript, The Silver Snarling Trumpet, has been set for publication. Out October 8th, the recently unearthed book will tell the band’s origin story.

The late Hunter — who co-wrote Grateful Dead songs like “Dark Star,” “Touch of Grey,” and “Box of Rain” — originally penned The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead — The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter in the early 1960s. At the time, he had just been introduced to Jerry Garcia and began chronicling the band’s early days in the Bay Area, including performances at Kepler’s Books and road trips through the countryside.

And then as I read more, I sadly realized that Hunter's manuscript is just being used to hawk Dead and Company Sphere tickets and further ingratiate John Mayer into the band that he bought in 2015.

The Silver Snarling Trumpet features a foreword by Dead & Company guitarist John Mayer, an introduction by the band’s biographer Dennis McNally, and an afterword by Brigid Meier, a close friend of Hunter’s. Pre-orders are ongoing.

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Meanwhile, Dead & Company continue to keep the spirit of Garcia and Grateful Dead alive. The supergroup is gearing up for a residency at The Sphere in Las Vegas beginning in May, and you can get tickets here.

Please don't dominate the rap, John, if you got nothing new to say. Robert Hunter speaks for himself.