{"id":6176,"date":"2014-12-20T07:28:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2014-12-22T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T14:34:09","slug":"deads-rock-scully-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/20\/deads-rock-scully-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead’s Rock Scully Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rock Scully, Grateful Dead\u2019s Manager Who Put the Band on Records, Dies at 73<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0<\/span>DOUGLAS MARTIN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Rock Scully, front left, in a Grateful Dead \u201cfamily portrait\u201d in San Francisco in 1966, soon after he became manager, in front of 710a Ashbury Street, the band\u2019s communal home.\u00a0Credit<\/span>Herb Greene\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Rock Scully learned his mission in life at an Acid Test, one of the drug-drenched, strobe-lit parties the author Ken Kesey staged in the San Francisco area in the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n

Owsley Stanley, the notoriously prodigious maker of LSD,\u00a0introduced Mr. Scully<\/a>\u00a0in 1965 to the scraggly, zonked-out members of a band that had just changed its name from the\u00a0Warlocks<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0Grateful Dead<\/a>. \u201cRock\u2019s going to be your manager,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, good luck, dude,\u201d said the band\u2019s guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir, according to \u201cLiving With the Dead\u201d (1996), the memoir Mr. Scully wrote with David Dalton.<\/p>\n

So began a long, strange trip that saw the Dead go from a makeshift sort-of-bluegrass band that played for nothing in San Francisco parks to one of the biggest, most remarkable acts in rock \u2019n\u2019 roll history. They sold 35 million albums, many<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times Rock Scully, Grateful Dead\u2019s Manager Who Put the Band on Records, Dies at 73 By\u00a0DOUGLAS MARTIN Rock Scully, front left, in a Grateful Dead \u201cfamily portrait\u201d in San Francisco in 1966, soon after he became manager, in front of 710a Ashbury Street, the band\u2019s communal home.\u00a0CreditHerb Greene\u00a0 Rock Scully learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}