Friend of the Devil
My Wild Ride with Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead
$78.34
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
17 April 2025
Summary
The inside story of Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead from one of the few non-band members allowed in the band’s inner circle: filmmaker, Len Dell’Amico. From 1980 to 1995, he witnessed brilliance, love, happy chaos, and pot. Lots of pot.
As a friend and a filmmaker, Len Dell’Amico was one of the few non-band members allowed into the inner circle of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, and he captured their lives for over 15 years. At a time of tremendous creative growth and record sales,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798886741681 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Len Dell'Amico |
| Publisher: | Insight Editions |
| Imprint: | Weldon Owen, Incorporated |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 17 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Len Dell'Amico
Len Dell’Amico has spent his entire working life in the film and television business, editing, writing, but mainly directing and producing concert films and music videos with such artists as Sarah Vaughan, Herbie Hancock, the Allman Brothers Band, Linda Ronstadt, Ray Charles, Blues Traveler, The Neville Brothers, Carlos Santana, Reuben Blades, and Bonnie Raitt.
He met Jerry Garcia in 1980, when he became Grateful Dead’s ‘video and film guy,’ and their friendship lasted for the rest of Garcia’s life. In partnership with Garcia, they produced the historic first national pay-per-view broadcast in the USA, from Radio City Music Hall in New York in 1980, the best-selling award-winning home-video So Far in 1988, a series of ground-breaking live-concert broadcasts from 1987 to 1991, and two classic music videos, “Hell In A Bucket” and “Throwing Stones” to promote the band’s hit album In The Dark.
He currently lives in Fairfax, Marin County, California, where he continues to do free-lance screen-writing, producing, and directing, with a special interest in the environment and sustainability issues.
His most recent feature film is Welcome To Dopeland, currently streaming.
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