{"product_id":"hardtail-strat-guitars-heroin-songs-and-stories-9798897470006","title":"Hardtail Strat: Guitars, Heroin, Songs and Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the best books by a rock musician I've ever read . . .\" -Danny Goldberg, author of \u003cem\u003eServing the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA gritty and melodic memoir of a guitarist's coming of age amid the electric pulse of the Greenwich Village and Los Angeles 1960s music revolutions, when he encountered legends like James Taylor, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Kesey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Jewish kid born in Queens in 1947, Peter Gallway grew up with caring but emotionally aloof parents, and when the Leave It To Beaver 1950s gave way to counterculture, free love, and the chaotic rock 'n' roll of the next two decades, he took the ride of his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom shooting rubber bands in Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe's Sutton Place apartment to shooting heroin in the backrooms of New York, Gallway plunges into the intoxicating world of New York's Night Owl Café alongside the Lovin' Spoonful and James Taylor, through the Troubadour, Mama Cass, the Manson family, and the record companies of LA's Sunset Strip. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned first with The Fifth Avenue Band, and then as a solo artist, Gallway's music career culminated in a six-city Japanese tour. When he moved to Maine, a Fender \"hardtail\" Stratocaster guitar offered him a second chance-an unlikely rebirth, when he was lucky to still be alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten in the raw, lyrical rhythm of a songwriter, through poetry, music, and prose, \u003cem\u003eHardtail Strat\u003c\/em\u003e is an unputdownable story of music and madness, abuse and opportunity, loss and redemption-and the enduring power of song to set us free. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\". . . as much as our lives and loves have crossed, I had no idea what was going on in the in-between spaces! Glad we're both here!\" - John Sebastian, American singer-songwriter and musician\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGallway, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Peter Gallway is a singer-songwriter, performer, and record producer with thirty albums and more than fifty production and special projects to his credit, including Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro, and works for film and musical theater. He performs around the world both solo and with his band, collaborates with synthesist Harvey Jones as the electronica ensemble Parker Gray, is married to singer-songwriter Annie Gallup, whom he collaborates with in the folk\/ Americana duo Hat Check Girl, and has published the poetry collection Big Mercy. He is a licensed psychotherapist in Maine and California.Peter and Annie live on the central coast of Maine.","brand":"Koehler Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033984200978,"sku":"9798897470006","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ab18a62-2757-412b-aa33-b2abd2957b8a.jpg?v=1770983735","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hardtail-strat-guitars-heroin-songs-and-stories-9798897470006","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}