You can't always get what you want

My life with the Rollings Stones, the Grateful Dead and other wonderful reprobates.

Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties, including the free California concert at which a man was murdered by a Hell's Angel in front of the stage while the Stones played on. After the show, Sam was left behind to make peace with the Hell's Angels, the various mobsters and organisations who had taken an overt interest in the event, and the people of America.

There has never been an official investigation into events at Altamont and those involved have never before spoken on record. Sam Cutler has decided that it is time to put to rest the myths and legends that have grown up around this infamous event in rock history and for the first time reveal the truth.

Sam survived Altamont and went on to live the ultimate rock and roll dream. This is his own account of the high ol' times he had managing tours for San Francisco band the Grateful Dead - who went on to become the world's most successful live act. Along the way Sam draws intimate portraits of other stars of the psychedelic circus that was the music industry in the sixties and seventies, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton.

This is an exhilarating, access-all-areas rock memoir from someone who has seen - and done - it all.

CONTENIDO:

Prologue. Let'em bleed
1. Busy being born
2. Behind the beat
3. No direction home
4. Standing in the shadows
5. Free music, english-style
6. Thou art that
7. The Stones in the park
8. Firing Allen Klein
9. Hurry up and wait
10. Play that country music, white boy
11. The greatest rock'n'roll band in the world?
12. Los Angeles
13. Bill Graham
14. By the time we got to Phoenix
15. Mick Taylor
16. Trust me, I'm a pilot
17. A free concert
18. What you see is what you get
19. The king of torts
20. The makings of a dumb idea
21. The big apple
22. Bringing home the bacon
23. More foolish plans
24. Welcome to California
25. The construction of nightmares
26. One way or another
27. When the going gets tough
28. The death of Meredith Hunter
29. Aftermath
30. Shelter from the storm
31. Jerry & Janis
32. Garcia
33. Trust me - I'm a Christian!
34. Witness for the defense
35. Yin and yang
36. Cool conundrums
37. Only whisper and you'll be heard
38. The bear
39. Loose in America
40. Where's Jimi?
41. Don't touch anything
42. All aboard that train
43. Memories are made of this
44. Running like clockwork
45. The end of the line
46. Whistling in the graveyard
47. An unsavory meal
48. The Fillmore East
49. Europe
50. Out of Town Tours
Epilogue. Don't look back?
Acknowledgments