Rock Scully, co-author with David Dalton of the book Living With The Dead, was the manager of the band The Grateful Dead from 1965 to 1985. He was a close friend of Jerry Garcia and may be one of the few people who knew the real Jerry up close and personal. Although he receives very little credit from the band, it is largely because of him that the Dead made it big. Jerry Garcia later in life The Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ... Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was famous as lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead, though his extensive career involved many other projects. ...

Living in The Haight before and during the infamous Summer of Love, Scully first saw the band play at one of Ken Kesey's notorious Acid Tests under the name "The Warlocks." When he was first introduced he thought that they were the ugliest band he had ever seen, and that they were going no where in the music industry. Little to say, he signed on as the band's manager almost immediately. He started to book the band at small local venues like The Fillmore, a place where many bands such as Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, and Quicksilver Messenger Service got their start. The corner of Haight and Ashbury in 2005 The Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, USA named after the intersection of Haight Street and Ashbury Street, commonly known as The Haight or, in recent years, The Upper Haight. ... The Summer of Love is a phrase given to the summer of 1967 to try to describe the feeling of being in San Francisco that summer, when the so-called hippie movement came to full fruition. ... Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and as a cultural icon whom some consider a link between the beat generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ... The Fillmore, also known as the Fillmore Auditorium, is a legendary music venue in San Francisco, California made famous by Bill Graham (1931-1991). ... Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. ... Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously released live album In Concert Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. ... // Biography Valentes Involvement Quicksilver Messenger Service was one of San Franciscos original psychedelic bands in the 1960s. ...

After 1967, the Dead started to hit it off big and Scully began to move up in the music industry, even getting the Dead into concerts like Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival. He started getting them record deals with Warner Brothers, and getting tours and albums together. He led the band through good times and bad times until in 1985, he became concerned with his and Jerry's abuse of White Persian Heroin and called a doctor to come look at Jerry while he checked himself into rehab. The band, already fed up with Scully, claiming he stole money from the band, fired him as their manager saying that he was stealing Jerry from the band. Woodstock may refer to: Woodstock Music and Art Festival, a 1969 U.S. rock festival which inspired a 1970 Warner Bros. ... The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ... Warner Bros. ... Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ...

According to what Scully says in the book, he never stole money from the band, and he wasn't "stealing Jerry," Jerry was self absorbed in his Heroin addiction, and wouldn't listen to anyone but Scully. Afraid of damaging his friendship with Jerry he never told anyone how bad their addiction was until he quit the band in 1985.