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COVER REVEAL
It's 4/20, and guess what? We are thrilled to reveal the cover of FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL. Get ready to step through the transitive nightfall of diamonds into the dreamworld of the Grateful Dead, where music, history and myth dissolve into each other like a tab on your tongue. Through writing and images, this captivating exploration gathers the songs and culture that have enchanted Deadheads for generations and spills the stranger-than-fiction stories of the outlaws, muses, mystics and cool fools who allegedly inspired them.
Feel like a stranger no more, and meet a band of characters beyond description: An anonymous female convict in America’s notorious prison and Playboy bunnies on acid. Joseph Campbell and the Zodiac Killer. College revolutionaries lost in the desert and Bob Dylan wandering in out of the cold. In Alex Pappademas's (@pappademas) kaleidoscopically-written pages, the abstract epic “Dark Star” gives shape to a movie gone mad, and “Terrapin Station” winds its way to Robert Hunter’s brain from sixteenth-century France via the hollers of Kentucky.
With over 100 of Joan LeMay’s (@joanlemay) paintings breathing fresh new life into the ramshackle, blacklight-ready aesthetic of the Grateful Dead, FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL is a visually rich and rollicking journey—a gift for longtime fans and a delightful, informative, and moving treat for anyone new to the band’s wild magic. Every psychedelic page is a glimmering stone on the proverbial golden road.
FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL is out 11/3/26, and it's available for pre-order now.
20 Apr 2026
Deadphemera pt. 2: From the Vaults. On the day that me and @joanlemay begin pressing our Grateful Dead book FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL into people’s hands like Mr. Rosso setting Linda Cardellini on the path made for her steps alone, here’s a work-product photo dump from the “sessions” for this book, which I wrote in my garage in L.A. and by speaking into my phone on psychotically long walks and in a couple of intense retreat-sprints at the Tuscany and Flamingo hotels in Las Vegas during the 2024 and 2025 Dead & Co Sphere runs. Thank you to everyone who put up with me while this was in the works for your forebearance and forgiveness. Specifics in the comments. ❤️⚡️🌹✌🏻🐒🚂
03 Nov 2026
Take a trip down the long, strange road of the Grateful Dead. 🎸💀
In FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL, Alex Pappademas (@pappademas) and Joan LeMay (@joanlemay) dive into the mythology, music, and wonderfully weird stories behind one of America’s most iconic bands. Featuring more than 100 vibrant, original paintings, this kaleidoscopic journey through the Dead’s universe is a must-have for Deadheads and curious newcomers alike.
🎶 The music. The mythology. The magic.
Pick up your copy of FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL today!
03 Nov 2026
Deadphemera vol. 1. Memes, stems and seeds from the camera roll, collected while @joanlemay & I were in process on FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL: WEST TEXAS COWBOYS, BROWN-EYED WOMEN, AND OTHER SUNSHINE DAYDREAMERS FROM THE SONGS OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD. Wrote more than I had planned to in this book about some of the darkest moments in American history, including the one we’re living through, but there were also a lot of dank Dead memes on the moodboard and hopefully some of it reads like this carousel feels. Come out and see us in LA, SF, and NYC if you can. Thank you. We love you
03 Nov 2026
FRIDAY, 11/6: Author Alex Pappademas (@pappademas) and artist @joanlemay will be at Amoeba SF to celebrate the release of their book “Friends of the Devil: West Texas Cowboys, Brown-Eyed Women, and Other Sunshine Daydreamers from the Songs of the Grateful Dead” with a Q&A moderated by local writer and musician, Paul Myers (@pulmyears)!
This event is free, all-ages. Purchase a copy of “Friends of the Devil” (out 11/3 via @randomhouse) at Amoeba SF and get it signed by Pappademas and LeMay!
Paul Myers is a Bay Area musician and writer who hosts the weekly Record Store Day Podcast. He is the author of A Wizard, A True Star: Todd Rundgren In The Studio, John Candy: A Life In Comedy, The Kids In The Hall: One Dumb Guy, and other books.
#gratefuldead #alexpappademus #joanlemay #paulmyers #amoebasf
02 Nov 2026
an event on the event horizon: @joanlemay @passionweiss and me, and hopefully you, at @booksoup to launch FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL, a new AP/JL self-help book about Brent Mydland’s ten-million-yard stare, violence in the American holler, and responsible drug use for teens, available 3 November wherever deals go down
31 Oct 2026
🌈 A little psychedelic magic for your bookshelf. 🎸
Meet FRIENDS OF THE DEVIL—a vibrant, wildly original journey into the songs, stories, and mythology of the Grateful Dead, brought to life through more than 100 original paintings.
A feast for the eyes and the imagination. Coming November 3!
28 Oct 2026
Join us for a Q&A and book signing of “Friends of the Devil: West Texas Cowboys, Brown-Eyed Women, and Other Sunshine Daydreamers from the Songs of the Grateful Dead”with author Alex Pappademas (@pappademas) and artist @joanlemay at Amoeba SF on November 6th at 5pm. Friends of the Devil (out 11/3 via Random House) invites you to plunge headfirst into the dreamworld of the @gratefuldead where music and myth intertwine and history dissolves like a tab on your tongue.
This is a free, all-ages event. Purchase the book at Amoeba SF and get it signed by Pappademas and LeMay!
This captivating exploration brings to life not only the songs that have enchanted Deadheads for generations but the stranger-than-fiction stories behind them. The gang’s all here: An anonymous female convict in America’s notorious prison and Playboy bunnies on acid. Joseph Campbell and the Zodiac Killer. College revolutionaries lost in the desert and Bob Dylan wandering in out of the cold. In these pages, the abstract epic “Dark Star” gives shape to a movie gone mad, and “Terrapin Station” winds its way to Robert Hunter’s brain from sixteenth-century France via the hollers of Kentucky.
#gratefuldead #alexpappademas #joanlemay #amoebasf
23 Oct 2026
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