You Can't Always Get What You Want

Sam Cutler

Description

Sam Cutler managed the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late 1960s and has now decided it's time to put to rest the myths and legends that have grown up around an infamous event in rock history - the Stones concert in which a Hell's Angel was murdered in front of the stage while the band played on. Also included in Cutler's account are details of his life managing the Grateful Dead and portraits of other stars of the 1960s and 1970s including Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton. An exhilarating, access-all-areas rock'n'roll ride.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• USA
• Music industry
• Memoir
• 20th century
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Ecw Press
• Date de parution: 20 décembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554909322
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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you can’t always get WHAT YOU WANT

you can’t always get WHAT YOU WANT my life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and other wonderful reprobates

ECW Press

SAM CUTL ER

Copyright © The Cutler Family Trust,2010

Published by ECW Press 2120Queen Street East, Suite200, Toronto, Ontario, Canadam4e 1e2 416.694.3348/ [e-mail]

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Published in Australia by Random House in2008.

library and archives canada cataloguing in publication

isbn-13: 978-1-55022-932-5 Cutler, Sam You can’t always get what you want : my life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and other wonderful reprobates / Sam Cutler

1. Cutler, Sam.2. Concert agents-Biography.i. Title.

ml417.g69c62 2009 782.42166092 c2009-905964-9

Editor: Jennifer Hale Text Design: Tania Craan Cover Design: Rachel Ironstone Cover Images: Top front photograph by Bob Davidoff — www.palmbeachpopfestival.com; Bottom front photograph © Robert Altman; back photograph courtesy Ray Slade. Author Photograph: © Hudson Photo,2009 Typesetting: Mary Bowness Printing: Transcontinental1 2 3 4 5

printed and bound in canada

For Ella Louise Howard and all the musicians

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE Let ’em bleed 1 ■

CHAPTER 1 Busy being born 3 ■

CHAPTER 2 Behind the beat 16 ■

CHAPTER 3 No direction home 23 ■

CHAPTER 4 Standing in the shadows 30 ■

CHAPTER 5 Free music, English-style 44 ■

CHAPTER 6 Thou art that 49 ■

CHAPTER 7 The Stones in the park 54 ■

CHAPTER 8 Firing Allen Klein 62 ■

CHAPTER 9 Hurry up and wait 68 ■

CHAPTER 10 Play that country music, white boy 76 ■

CHAPTER 11 The greatest rock’n’roll band in the world? 79 ■

CHAPTER 12 Los Angeles 87 ■

CHAPTER 13 Bill Graham 92 ■

CHAPTER 14 By the time we got to Phoenix 99 ■

CHAPTER 15 Mick Taylor 104 ■

CHAPTER 16 Trust me, I’m a pilot 111 ■

CHAPTER 17 A free concert 119 ■

CHAPTER 18 What you see is what you get 123 ■

CHAPTER 19 The king of torts 129 ■

CHAPTER 20 The makings of a dumb idea 134 ■

CHAPTER 21 The Big Apple 138 ■

CHAPTER 22 Bringing home the bacon 143 ■

CHAPTER 23 More foolish plans 146 ■

CHAPTER 24 Welcome to California 154 ■

CHAPTER 25 The construction of nightmares 159 ■

CHAPTER 26 One way or another 165 ■

CHAPTER 27 When the going gets tough 176 ■

CHAPTER 28 The death of Meredith Hunter 181 ■

CHAPTER 29 Aftermath 185 ■

CHAPTER 30 Shelter from the storm 191 ■

CHAPTER 31 Jerry & Janis 196 ■

CHAPTER 32 Garcia 202 ■

CHAPTER 33 Trust me – I’m a Christian! 207 ■

CHAPTER 34 Witness for the defense 211 ■

CHAPTER 35 Yin and yang 216 ■

CHAPTER 36 Cool conundrums 222 ■

CHAPTER 37 Only whisper and you’ll be heard 231 ■

CHAPTER 38 The Bear 236 ■

CHAPTER 39 Loose in America 240 ■

CHAPTER 40 Where’s Jimi? 247 ■

CHAPTER 41 Don’t touch anything 254 ■

CHAPTER 42 All aboard that train 261 ■

CHAPTER 43 Memories are made of this 266 ■

CHAPTER 44 Running like clockwork 272 ■

CHAPTER 45 The end of the line 280 ■

CHAPTER 46 Whistling in the graveyard 288 ■

CHAPTER 47 An unsavory meal 295 ■

CHAPTER 48 The Fillmore East 300 ■

CHAPTER 49 Europe 305 ■

CHAPTER 50 Out of Town Tours 313 ■

EPILOGUE Don’t look back? 321 ■

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

325