Rock Scully, Grateful Dead’s Manager Who Put the Band on Records, Dies at 73

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Very interesting article.......

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/arts/music/rock-scully-grateful-dead-manager-who-put-the-band-on-records-dies-at-73.html?_r=1


Rock Scully, front left, in a Grateful Dead “family portrait” in San Francisco in 1966, soon after he became manager, in front of 710a Ashbury Street, the band’s communal home. Credit Herb Greene

Mr. Scully and Tangerine Steinbrecher had a son, Luke Scully, who died in the tsunami 10 years ago while vacationing in Thailand. Many sources say Mr. Scully was briefly married in the mid-1970s to Carolyn Christie, a shirttail member of the British aristocracy, but his brother said he doubted that was a legal tie. Ms. Christie later married Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.

Mr. Scully was fired by the Dead in 1984 because of an addiction to morphine and cocaine that he shared with Mr. Garcia, Dicken Scully said. Band members blamed Mr. Scully for Mr. Garcia’s descent into the same drugs he took. He returned briefly in 1985. Mr. Garcia died in 1995.

After beating his drug habit, Mr. Scully fought alcoholism and ultimately stopped drinking. In what his brother called “a very humbling time,” he returned to Carmel, where he took care of his mother, painted houses and became involved in local civic issues.