Drumming at the Edge of Magic
Mickey Hart
A passionate drummer
When I was in biz school, the Grateful Dead somehow came up in a management class. (No, I don't remember any more than that.) I therefore got hold of what I could find in print about them. There wasn't much, and this book by drummer Mickey Hart was certainly the best. It's a personal journey by a talented and committed artist. Unfortunately, it seems I was the only person who liked it -- it is now out of print. I know that some people think it is absurd to read books about music, instead of listening to the music. While I agree with that, I would suggest an alternative is still viable: don't read books about music INSTEAD of listening to music, read books about music IN ADDITION to listening.
So I enjoyed this. Hart even persuaded me to read Joseph Campbell's much more famous book The Hero With a Thousand Faces, which turned out to be a dreary tedium-fest.