![]() ![]() “As for the show itself,” he writes, “it is a well-known fact that the Grateful Dead always blew the big ones. Martin’s Press, $27.99), the now white-haired, 69-year-old musician includes an account of that show, critiquing the Dead’s performance with refreshing honesty. In his new memoir, “Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs with the Grateful Dead” (St. I remember how excited he was about being on stage in front of the largest crowd ever, some 600,000 fans, surpassing even Woodstock. I met him in the Grateful Dead office, then on Lincoln Avenue in San Rafael, after the Dead had played what would be a record-setting outdoor concert with the Allman Brothers and the Band at Watkins Glen, a racetrack in New York. Bill Kreutzmann, the original drummer for the Grateful Dead, was the first member of the band I interviewed when I started covering rock for the IJ in 1973.
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