One of Garcia’s friends, Robert Hunter, recorded his impressions of that year in “The Silver Snarling Trumpet.” Best known for providing the lyrics to many of Garcia’s songs, Hunter wrote ...

The Silver Snarling Trumpet is Hunter’s lost memoir of sorts, an autobiographical, literary tale of he, Garcia, and the early ‘60s Menlo Park, California scene out of which the Grateful Dead was born.

Accordingly, he kept to himself the extended writing that would become The Silver Snarling Trumpet. The document remained stored away for some decades before his wife Maureen exhumed the piece and ...

The title, “Silver Snarling Trumpet,” comes from a poem by John Keats called “The Eve of St. Agnes.” Illustrations by noted psychedelic artist Nathaniel Deas (Bourbon Sunday) add to the ...

Back in 1961, aspiring young California artists and intellectuals would congregate at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park. You’d see them at a table sharing a single cup of coffee, or smell the smoke ...