My Dad must have had enormous charisma and charm to bamboozle the Dead, Bankers, Savings & Loans, Church Members, and of course Wives and Children, one after the other for as long as he did. Unlike the narrator in most memoirs; this book is my memoir, not another biographic-dump for Deadheads "looking' to score the dirty on the band." Grateful But not Dead] is my story of my famous family and the impact on me, the son of the manager and half-brother of the drummer. That's it I'm not looking to harm with my stories of my famous family. My journey started by bringing my mother's repressed thoughts about my Dad to the surface, exceedingly painful and emotional at times. Writing my dream; a memoir, is scarier than I expected. Grateful but not Dead, a necessary step in providing a level of finality and closure to an episode that haunted not only a family, but also one of the most legendary rock bands in music history.