You Can't Always Get What You Want My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates

by Cutler, Sam

• ISBN13: 9781550229325
• ISBN10: 155022932X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Ecw Press

Summary

An exhilarating, all-access rock memoir from someone who has seen and done it all, this telling recounts the many experiences of Sam Cutler, the former tour manager of the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. With intimate portraits of other stars of the psychedelic circus that was the music industry in the 1960s and 1970sincluding Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, and Eric Claptonthis account is an ideal resource for any music fan. A detailed explanation of the infamous Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, where a man in the crowd was killed by the Hells Angels, is also included.

Author Biography

Sam Cutler is the former tour manager for the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Let'em bleed	p. 1
Busy being born	p. 3
Behind the beat	p. 16
No direction home	p. 23
Standing in the shadows	p. 30
Free music, English-style	p. 44
Thou art that	p. 49
The Stones in the park	p. 54
Firing Allen Klein	p. 62
Hurry up and wait	p. 68
Play that country music, white boy	p. 76
The greatest rock'n'roll band in the world?	p. 79
Los Angeles	p. 87
Bill Graham	p. 92
By the time we got to Phoenix	p. 99
Mick Taylor	p. 104
Trust me, I'm a pilot	p. 111
A free concert	p. 119
What you see is what you get	p. 123
The king of torts	p. 129
The makings of a dumb idea	p. 134
The Big Apple	p. 138
Bringing home the bacon	p. 143
More foolish plans	p. 146
Welcome to California	p. 154
The construction of nightmares	p. 159
One way or another	p. 165
When the going gets tough	p. 176
The death of Meredith Hunter	p. 181
Aftermath	p. 185
Shelter from the storm	p. 191
Jerry & Janis	p. 196
Garcia	p. 202
Trust me - I'm a Christian!	p. 207
Witness for the defense	p. 211
Yin and yang	p. 216
Cool conundrums	p. 222
Only whisper and you'll be heard	p. 231
The Bear	p. 236
Loose in America	p. 240
Where's Jimi?	p. 247
Don't touch anything	p. 254
All aboard that train	p. 261
Memories are made of this	p. 266
Running like clockwork	p. 272
The end of the line	p. 280
Whistling in the graveyard	p. 288
An unsavory meal	p. 295
The Fillmore East	p. 300
Europe	p. 305
Out of Town Tours	p. 313
Epilogue: Don't look back?	p. 321
Acknowledgments	p. 325
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