Tour Head details forty years of crazy road stories, spanning my teen to adult life traveling to experience The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band and now, Dead and Company. Tour Head chronicles the road trips, acid trips, and mind flips, and all the ensuing hijinks that went down inside, outside and in between those hundreds of concerts I attended.
In a sense, we all became an individual part of the Grateful Dead shows and a collective part of the parking lot scene that evolved into “Shakedown Street”. Tour Head rolls down a window to the ways of the road and the extreme lengths Tour Heads will go, sometimes running literally on fumes… all for that miracle ticket to enjoy one more Grateful Dead gig.
A humorous, yet unflinching look at a life spent in pursuit of a musical dream. Told from the perspective of someone who is not a musician in a traveling band, just a rabid fan, so obsessed that darkness would set in if even a few shows were missed!
From being pulled over on acid in Utah, to selling the standard veggie sandwiches, to smuggling weed, to dancing in Madison Square Garden, the stories, much like the music, never stopped. So, I’m telling them to you now, while the most precious memories are still intact! Join myself and my friends on our journey of awakening, experienced on the road, living it up across America, following the legendary tripping earth ship known as The Grateful Dead.
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Dead Heads! Click this link for my YOUTUBE Channel Tour Head! It contains everything about my book and a whole lot more about my wild adventures seeing the Grateful Dead! I have weekly updates, extensive memorabilia, photos and art to be displayed, interviews and many unique extra’s. Stick around as I drop crazy stories about being a Grateful Dead Tour Head. Tell your friends! Like.! Subscribe! Thanks! See you at a show! Nordy
Nordy was born Thomas Nordwall in Minnesota in 1965. He moved extensively around the United States eventually landing in Portland Oregon. He has been a contributing writer for Thrasher Magazine, Snowboarder Magazine, and many others. From lifelong Grateful Dead tour head to professional snowboarder to ordained reverend to blue content producer, and finally, writer, Nordy has been on one hell of a rollercoaster ride during his crazy life.
