Grateful Dead Historian Dennis McNally
from Deeper Digs Hosted by Christian Swain
This week Christian has the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Grateful Dead historian, Dennis McNally. This one is special for the Rock N Roll Archaeologist because Dennis is an actual historian with a PhD in U.S. History and because one of the inspirations for the entire rock n roll archaeology project was the 2002 McNally book, “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”. He is a real life rock n roll archaeologist! Dennis McNally received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1977 for a biography of Jack Kerouac which was published by Random House in 1979 under the title Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America. He became the Grateful Dead’s authorized biographer in 1980 and the band’s publicist in 1984. In 2002, he published A Long Strange Trip/The Inside History of the Grateful Dead with Broadway Books, a division of Random House. It made the New York Times best seller list. https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ADennis+McNally&s=relevancerank&text=Dennis+McNally&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 https://www.dennismcnally.com/
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