ABOUT
TEAM
"Howard's writing of this time period has an On The Road quest feel to it." -
Jonathan Ames creator of HBO series Bored to Death.
Grateful Dead Books LLC (GDB) is both a friendly website and a full service bookstore.
We started with an idea of trying to merge our love for books with our lifelong affair
with the music of the Grateful Dead... and beyond. We started selling books in 2000 and
founded Grateful Dead Books LLC in 2007. We created the GDB Facebook page in the Fall
of 2009 being the first to do so. It is our goal to be one of the best destination
places online for our old friends and the new ones we will make along the way. If
you love cool Grateful Dead themed merchandise, good conversation and incredible music
downloads, than we think we are a comfortable place to relax at. We also have a sister
Facebook site Grateful Dead Books Hall of Fame (GDHoF) for the full Dead dose. They
specialize in rare daily GD and JGB concert recordings and also post free movies on
Saturdays. The GDB Team consists of six hard working administrators with hundreds of
shows between them who love to share their own stories and experiences. We hope you
enjoy the ride and we love you all. Please help support GDB. A portion of every sale
is donated to the Atlanta Humane Society. Thank You.
I'm glad you are here and reading this now. I am Hamlin (GDB - SE aka Boss)
the founder and owner of Grateful Dead Books LLC way back in 2007. I am one of
the main contributors and post mostly Grateful Dead news and shows and lively
human interest stories and maybe even some boring literary stuff. Another one
of my chief responsibilities is to officiate the contests that we do on Facebook.
New merchandise is given away to our fans on a regular basis. I have really
enjoyed doing that and plan to continue giving away awesome free stuff. I saw
the Grateful Dead play live from the Spring Tour 1983 thru the Spring Tour 1993.
My first show was at the Greensboro Coliseum and my last show was at the Omni.
I made the journey and bought the ticket and feel very lucky to have done so.
Those were some of the best days I have ever experienced. By starting GDB I think
I somehow have once again tapped into this rich outlet of creativity and discussion.
It now seems just like it was.... and I had thought those days were forever gone. I
attribute this to some good fortune or perhaps a psychic seed planted one night
long ago under the stars while listening to the sweet tunes. The music has never
stopped. Who knows if it ever will. We hope you enjoy your time here with us. It
has been a great ride so far. I live in Atlanta and like to travel , watch good
movies and of course listen to the music play. See you at GDB online!!!
That's Andy, aka The Dude or GDB-West, and he's our San Francisco Admin. Known for being up on the current live music scene in the Bay Area and pulling from a deeper level of musical experience than most, he is our Jam Band guy. Originally from Florida, and experiencing most of his Dead shows on the East Coast Tour swings, he has been a certified Deadhead since 1972. He will also be the guy who collects and shares a lot of the artwork and photographs randomly being displayed. On the book side of things, GDB-West has a professional background as a bookseller and as a former retail manager for Borders Books & Music; he is an avid reader though he admits he cannot be nailed down to a single genre. Beer posts, baseball posts, pretty hippie chick posts...yeah, he's usually to blame for those and yet he has no shame. His redeeming quality is that he doesn't take himself too seriously so neither should you; and the man can dance like a mofo!
Hello, My name Is Karen~GDB-SEPA~. I am the new kid on the Block at Grateful Dead Books. I am An East Coast Transplant from So Cal, for 5 years now, I love all kinds of music and have seen many , many bands. I was lucky enough to have older bros help shape some of my music taste and even luckier to have been able to have gone to my first Grateful Dead concert when I was 14 in 1976. I am the mother of two, have two cats and a dog and a wonderful boyfriend. I majored in Broadcasting and had a really sweet slot in college radio, and worked for a brief period at KLOS in Los Angeles. With luck in the new year to come, I will be on the air somehow - maybe internet radio. I love sharing music and talking about it with others.
GDB - NEPA (aka John) - As a young boy growing up in New Jersey, I had two Aunts that were teenyboppers. So I got all the hit 45's about two weeks after they came out, since they were no longer popular at that point. My collection ranged from Bill Haley to Lead Belly. As I grew into the 60's, folk music really attracted me: first, The Kingston Trio, then Phil Ochs, and of course Dylan. September 1966 is when I first got on the Bus. A friend's sister just arrived from California with some reel-to-reels that would forever change me - Live Grateful Dead - music like I had never heard before. The Sound gave forth such magic that I had to have more of this new West Coast Sound: The Fish, Airplane, Incredible String Band and so many more. When The Fillmore East opened its doors, I was there.
As the 60's closed, the Anti-Vietnam War Movement was in full swing and I was there. White Panthers, SDS and Weathermen - I was with them; hung out in NYC with Abbie Hoffman & Jerry Rubin, met Phil Ochs in Vermont and he taught me my first three chords, but The Dead were always in my head.
Worked at many different jobs in many different states thru the years (Roadie, Pipeline Laborer etc.), but for the last 32 years have been a Land Surveyor - a career that has allowed me to see many parts of the natural world that I would never have had the chance to see otherwise - and to be one of the first to set locations for an experimental technology today know as GPS. I now live outside of a small town (Shickshinny) in Northeast Pennsylvania with my wife Jeanie, and my two Golden Retrievers (Jake & Jinger). I enjoy watching silent films (Harold Lloyd my favorite). I also have been (for the past 20 years) writing a book of short stories. It's almost done and I'm thinking about showcasing it on GDB.
That's Andy, aka The Dude or GDB-West, and he's our San Francisco Admin. Known for being up on the current live music scene in the Bay Area and pulling from a deeper level of musical experience than most, he is our Jam Band guy. Originally from Florida, and experiencing most of his Dead shows on the East Coast Tour swings, he has been a certified Deadhead since 1972. He will also be the guy who collects and shares a lot of the artwork and photographs randomly being displayed. On the book side of things, GDB-West has a professional background as a bookseller and as a former retail manager for Borders Books & Music; he is an avid reader though he admits he cannot be nailed down to a single genre. Beer posts, baseball posts, pretty hippie chick posts...yeah, he's usually to blame for those and yet he has no shame. His redeeming quality is that he doesn't take himself too seriously so neither should you; and the man can dance like a mofo!
Hello, My name Is Karen~GDB-SEPA~. I am the new kid on the Block at Grateful Dead Books. I am An East Coast Transplant from So Cal, for 5 years now, I love all kinds of music and have seen many , many bands. I was lucky enough to have older bros help shape some of my music taste and even luckier to have been able to have gone to my first Grateful Dead concert when I was 14 in 1976. I am the mother of two, have two cats and a dog and a wonderful boyfriend. I majored in Broadcasting and had a really sweet slot in college radio, and worked for a brief period at KLOS in Los Angeles. With luck in the new year to come, I will be on the air somehow - maybe internet radio. I love sharing music and talking about it with others.
GDB - NEPA (aka John) - As a young boy growing up in New Jersey, I had two Aunts that were teenyboppers. So I got all the hit 45's about two weeks after they came out, since they were no longer popular at that point. My collection ranged from Bill Haley to Lead Belly. As I grew into the 60's, folk music really attracted me: first, The Kingston Trio, then Phil Ochs, and of course Dylan. September 1966 is when I first got on the Bus. A friend's sister just arrived from California with some reel-to-reels that would forever change me - Live Grateful Dead - music like I had never heard before. The Sound gave forth such magic that I had to have more of this new West Coast Sound: The Fish, Airplane, Incredible String Band and so many more. When The Fillmore East opened its doors, I was there.
As the 60's closed, the Anti-Vietnam War Movement was in full swing and I was there. White Panthers, SDS and Weathermen - I was with them; hung out in NYC with Abbie Hoffman & Jerry Rubin, met Phil Ochs in Vermont and he taught me my first three chords, but The Dead were always in my head.
Worked at many different jobs in many different states thru the years (Roadie, Pipeline Laborer etc.), but for the last 32 years have been a Land Surveyor - a career that has allowed me to see many parts of the natural world that I would never have had the chance to see otherwise - and to be one of the first to set locations for an experimental technology today know as GPS. I now live outside of a small town (Shickshinny) in Northeast Pennsylvania with my wife Jeanie, and my two Golden Retrievers (Jake & Jinger). I enjoy watching silent films (Harold Lloyd my favorite). I also have been (for the past 20 years) writing a book of short stories. It's almost done and I'm thinking about showcasing it on GDB.