Hardtail Strat: Guitars, Heroin, Songs and Stories

A 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.

A 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.

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