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title: "Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead"
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# Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great read
  

*by J***C on Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2024*

Big Steve was there and he tells a good story, a must read for any dead head

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Parish book very well written and accurate. No punches pulled.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016*

Fun read. Parish stays focused on his perspective as a roadie and how that was an integral part of Garcia work as musician. But enough on the music and the Dead and anecdotes on personalities that appear truthful from Parish perspective. He writes with clarity and authority and accuracy and confidence so reader knows this is his perspective. This is very well done. There are more than enough of the drugs largesse of everyone including Parish and similarly he details his compulsion and sex addiction so the reader is both entertained and gets a whiff of the emotional psychological cost he felt he paid. He absolves himself of spending decades with a deteriorating addict Garcia and laments he could not do more. A lot more because he loved him so much. However the social dysfunction a performing unit endures suffers celebrates and grows to live in becomes a normal that does not allow for and absolves members of any kind of straight conversation. It could not take place because everyone cannot point a finger when they are all guilty. Or so the dynamic plays in the minds of the group. This is fascinating. And sad. As a deadhead since 1977 I have a deep affection for the band and Garcia in particular. He was a brilliant musician mind human being and I never tire of his art or ideas.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great in conjunction with other Dead books
  

*by C***D on Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2020*

Parish was a long and loyal servant to the Dead. He was never going to write a lurid, tell-all type of book (nor a definitive history). Nevertheless, there is no shortage of sex, drugs and near-death experiences here. It's an exhilarating ride at times. One should know going in that this story is as much about the author's life as it is about the Dead. But it works because a) his own life story is pretty wild and compelling (and tragic) on its own, and b) his entire adult life was spent with the Dead on their journey, so the subtitle ("My Life on the Road With The Dead") is very much what you get. Yes, you also get some insight into the enigma that was Jerry Garcia but not a ton; Parish seemed to be as close to Jerry as anyone (they went to Hawaii and learned to scuba dive together, for example) but, in the later years, we learn that nobody was really that close to Jerry because of the natural distance created by his drug addiction. The one disappointment is the almost complete lack of gear chat. As Garcia’s personal roadie and guitar tech, one might have expected a little more insight into Jerry's rig and choice of guitars over the years. But that info is all available elsewhere in considerable detail, I guess.One final caveat: If you only want to read one book about the Dead, this is probably not the one to get. On the other hand, if you're a serious Deadhead and/or have read 1-2 other Dead books, then this is a really enjoyable (and relatively-fast) companion read that will color in parts left by other books. Indeed, while I was initially frustrated with the author's focus on himself (come on, man, tell me about the Dead!), I quickly became engrossed in his tale and learned more about the true Grateful Dead lifestyle than any other books have been able to tell--even those written by band members.

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