You Can't Always Get What You Want
1969, Altamont : un concert des Rolling Stones tourne au drame. Sam Cutler, leur manager, raconte l’envers du décor, les excès, les légendes et la vérité crue sur l’âge d’or du rock.
Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties, including the infamous concert at Altamont where a man was murdered by a Hells Angel in front of the stage while the Stones played on. After the show, Sam was left behind to make peace with the Hells Angels, the various mobsters and organizations 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 also 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, all-areas-access rock memoir from someone who has seen - and done - it all.
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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 also 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, all-areas-access rock memoir from someone who has seen - and done - it all.
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Ce livre offre un témoignage unique sur l’un des événements les plus controversés de l’histoire du rock : le concert d’Altamont en 1969, où un spectateur a été tué sous les yeux des Rolling Stones. Sam Cutler, manager des Stones puis des Grateful Dead, y révèle des détails inédits, démêle les mythes et partage son expérience au cœur de la scène musicale des années 60-70, avec ses excès, ses excès et ses drames.
Le livre explore la face cachée de l’industrie musicale, les dérives des concerts géants, la gestion de crise après Altamont, et les portraits intimes de légendes comme Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix ou Eric Clapton. Il questionne aussi la responsabilité des artistes, des organisateurs et des fans dans les excès du rock.
Ce livre s’adresse aux passionnés de rock, aux amateurs d’histoires vraies et de mémoires, ainsi qu’à ceux qui s’intéressent à la culture des années 60-70. Il séduira aussi les lecteurs en quête de récits bruts et sans concession, loin des biographies officielles.
Vous pourrez interroger le smartbook sur les coulisses des tournées des Rolling Stones et des Grateful Dead, les détails de l’organisation du concert d’Altamont, les relations entre Sam Cutler et les artistes, ou encore les conséquences de cet événement sur l’industrie musicale. Le smartbook répondra aussi à vos questions sur les anecdotes méconnues et les leçons tirées de cette époque.
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A fast-moving narrative of rock-n-roll excess. Cutler’s account is a fascinating historical snapshot not only on the life and heady times of the Stones, the Dead and Altamont, but of the Sixties themselves.
The bottom line is, this book is the goods. It’s the bomb-diggety. It punches where a punch is needed and lets you take a deep breath and wonder when the air gets too rarified or thin. Sam Cutler’s world, whether you were there or not, is vibrant, fascinating, intriguing, and always offered with a clear eye and a clean sense of him stepping back and letting you judge for yourself.
Sam Cutler's You Can't Always Get What You Want is a fascinating historical snapshot not only on the life and heady times of the Stones, the Dead and Altamont, but of the Sixties themselves. There have been scores of books written about the Rolling Stones over the years, and nearly as many of them about the disastrous 1969 free concert at Altamont Raceway near San Francisco. But very few of them have come from the same bird's-eye view as Sam Cutler's.
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