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Take trip with Grateful Dead historian

It goes without saying that Dennis McNally, the Grateful Dead's historian and PR man, has a veritable boatload of DayGlo-colored memories attached to his 20 heady years with the band.

He documented it all, good and bad, in his definitive biography, "A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead" (Broadway, 2002).

McNally comes to Weber State University on Tuesday to teach several classes and to present a public multimedia lecture on the band.
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