"Integrating material from popular, academic, and archival sources, John Brackett writes with the sensibilities of a Deadhead and the rigor of a scholar. As someone who likes her Dead live and prefers to dance to music in person, his perspective resonates with me. As an academic who studies Deadheads, I welcome this thoroughly researched and impeccably documented account of how and why 'live recordings came to dominate the discourse of the Grateful Dead.'"–Rebecca G. Adams, University of North Carolina Greensboro, coeditor of "Deadhead Social Science"