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Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years - Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? (Paperback)
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Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years - Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? (Paperback)
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On paper Steve Katz's career rivals anyone's except the 1960s' and
'70's biggest stars: the Monterey Pop Festival with the legendary
Blues Project, Woodstock with Blood, Sweat & Tears, and even
producing rock's most celebrated speed addict, Lou Reed. There were
world tours, and his resume screams "Hall of Fame" - it won't be
long before BS&T are on that ballot. He has three Grammies (ten
nominations), three Downbeat Reader's Poll Awards, three gold
records, one platinum record, and one quadruple platinum platter
(the second Blood, Sweat & Tears album), not to mention three
gold singles with BS&T. All together, he's sold close to 29
million records. He had affairs with famous female folk singers,
made love to Jim Morrison's girlfriend Pam when Jim was drunk and
abusive, partied with Elizabeth Taylor and Groucho Marx, dined with
Rudolf Nureyev, conversed with Martin Luther King, Jr. and
Tennessee Williams, hung out with Andy Warhol, jammed with everyone
from Mose Allison to Jimi Hendrix, and was told to get a haircut by
both Mickey Spillane and Danny Thomas. But his memoir is more
Portnoy's Complaint than the lurid party-with-your-pants-down
memoir that has become the norm for rock 'n' roll books. It's an
honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the
spotlight-a privileged vantage point that earned him a bit more
objectivity and earnest outrage than a lot of his colleagues, who
were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set
during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties' most
celebrated venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on
international tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the
unlikely story of a rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice
Jewish boy who got to sit at the cool kid's table and score the hot
chicks.
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