Riders on the Storm by John Densmore (1991, Paperback, Reissue)

I bought this for a friend for his birthday. I ended up reading it myself and I just couldn't put it down! The book is very interesting!!!!!

I read this book a long time ago and then lent it to a friend to read,you know,one of "those" friends who never return anything? Anywho,there was a quote in there by Antonin Artaud that I really liked,and I was directing a theater play.I really needed to get a message across to my cast,(they just weren't getting it)and I remembered the quote on page 213,part of which is, A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses,liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towarda kind of potential revolt,which cannot realize its full value,unless it remains potential and imposes on the crowd a difficult and heroic attitude.Good stuff I think,so I ordered it off eBay.Where else can you get a book like this in a one-horse town like mine?To get back to the book,I don't think John Densmore is capable of writing a grocery list,let alone a biography,but somehow he managed to come through the whole period with a fantastic memory of what happened,real or imagined,it doesn't matter,he got it down right,at least for those who lived through the period, it's the way we hoped it was,and it makes for good reading,so I have to give it 5 stars,if not just for content,for a great story of the drug-crazed idealism,when we really believed we could change the world with rock n roll. Peace out,Barenjagger