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Peter Conners's Blog
April 14, 2010
- Here's a nice article that appeared today in Rochester's alternative newsweekly, City Newspaper. It has all the details about my book signing tomorrow at the screeing for the new Dead movie, Crimson, White & Indigo.-----------------When he was a teenager, local author Peter Conners took listening to his favorite band one step further than just attending shows and buying albums. He went out ...
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April 5, 2010
- On Thursday, April 15 the beautiful and historic Little Theatre in Rochester, NY will be screeing the newest Grateful Dead concert movie release. The film is called Crimson, White and Indigo, and captures the Grateful Dead live at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on July 7, 1989. This was a stellar show that I was lucky enough to be at and I highly recommend checking out the movie. I'll be at the ...
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March 25, 2010
- Last July I was interviewed by David Gans for the Grateful Dead Hour. David tapes the show in Berkeley and this was recorded during a West Coast trip to promote the book. This was one of my favorite promos for Growing Up Dead - the interview was solid, plus David had me read some parts from the book. He also played some music related to the reading and, last but not least, "Shasta" ...
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March 17, 2010
- On Friday, April 9th I'll be reading/performing in Boulder, Colorado with the band 18 Switchbacks. This will be a special night of musical-literary collaboration that's sure to serve up some surprises for performers and audience alike. The gig is at the the Boulder Draft House at 2027 13th Street and will start around 9PM. If you're attending the annual AWP Conference in Denver that week, ...
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February 25, 2010
- Christian Crumlish wrote this excellent review of GUD for the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus Conference Program. You can also read it online (and with proper formatting) at his blog [Media Junkie]Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadheadby Peter Conners Da Capo Press, 2009 http://www.growingupdead.com/ Pick up just about any history or memoir of the Grateful Dead and ...
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December 13, 2009
- Big News: The one-and-only City Lights will be publishing by new nonfiction book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg! WHS is an in-depth look at how Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg shared ideas, contacts, inspiration, and influence to launch the spiritual psychedelic revolution in 1960s America. To write the book, I gathered unpublished ...
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November 10, 2009
- I'm reading at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis on Saturday (11/14) at 7PM. The store is at 3038 Hennepin Avenue South. I'll read for about 35 minutes and then hang around to sign books and mingle. For more info visit: [Magers & Quinn]
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October 19, 2009
- I've had a subscription to Rolling Stone since I was a teenager, so I was pretty psyched to see that my name had come out of original Rolling Stone writer Ben Fong-Torres' (he started writing for them in 1968, issue #8) head. Sure, the title of his entry is "Another Grateful Dead Book? Why?" but he's actually talking about The Grateful Dead Scrapbook, which he contributed to by writing ...
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October 2, 2009
- Hi Friends,Next stop: Albany! I'll be in town for a reading with novelist Jessica Anthony courtesy of the Frequency North series at College of St. Rose. The reading will be held on Thursday, October 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium, 985 Madison Ave., Albany. Click here for more info: [Frequency North Press Release]As a bonus, host Daniel Nester will act ...
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September 17, 2009
- On June 5th, 2009, I read passages from Growing Up Dead while Dave Stein, Garrin Benfield, Shoshana Zisk, Steve Cohn, and Chris DeJohn played their Acoustic Grateful Dead Night at Giordano Brothers in San Francisco, CA. This was taped on a small digital recorder in a loud bar with no previous rehearsal for the collaboration. All things considered, it's a fun listen!The two tracks I read on are ...
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September 14, 2009
- Some great news for Growing Up Dead! The American Booksellers Association named Growing Up Dead as an Indie Music Bestseller in September 2009. The Bestseller List is based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide compiled over an eight-week period ending on September 9, 2009. As a bookstore lover (if you understand that statement, it needs no explanation) I'm really proud of ...
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August 31, 2009
- I really like this article. It's fair, measured, it doesn't condescend or throw cheap shots, and it's well-written. The truth is that you talk to a journalist for 45 minutes and then hope for the best. You can't decide how you'll be portrayed, you don't get final approval of the article, and you usually can't tell how it'll come out until it's in print. So it's always a pleasure to read a review ...
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August 26, 2009
- Hi All,Here's a nice article on Growing Up Dead from Messenger Post Newspapers in Upstate, NY. Love the picture too! http://www.mpnnow.com/homepage/x772317499/Peter-Conners-writes-about-Growing-Up-Dead-in-Pittsford Peter
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August 20, 2009
- I was thrilled to hear this excellent review of Growing Up Dead on NPR's "All Things Considered" today! Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead by Peter Conners, paperback, 288 pagesNo music fan is more invested than a follower of the Grateful Dead. Peter Conners' new memoir, Growing Up Dead, chronicles the exhilaration of falling in love with music as if ...
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July 28, 2009
- I'll be talking GUD with host Eric Schwartz on the long-running (26 years!) Lone Star Dead radio show out of Dallas this Friday at 9:30PM EST. Around Dallas, you can hear the show on KNON 89.3FM. Or you can listen online at www.knon.orghttp://www.lonestardeadradio.com
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