Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alechemical Guitarist 9780997693775, 0997693770

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Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alechemical Guitarist
 9780997693775, 0997693770

Table of contents :
Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Prologue: Waiting for the Rollercoaster
1 Hello Pittsburgh
2 Something of my Birth
3 First Birthday Party
4 Richard Discovers Electricity and Other Experiments
5 â#x80
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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?â#x80
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6 Cough Syrup, Death, Hypnosis and an Early Psychedelic Experience
7 Turning Upside Down Inside and the Power of Silence
8 Catholic School, God and the Devil
9 The Intoxicated Cartoon
10 Junior High Heroin and Big Angel/ Big Devil
11 Teenage Activity
12 The Whole World Is Sex
13 Valence
14 The Hypnosis and Slang Study Groups 15 Samantha16 Raising the Ritalin Roof
17 Psychiatry Is Nuts
18 Richard Meets Velvert and Wakes up Jimi
19 The Guitar Lesson without a Guitar and Black Roman Orgy
20 Buddyâ#x80
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s Got a Gun
21 Hash Magic and Zeppelin Tales
22 Woodstock
23 Adventures at the Fillmore East
24 Montclair and the Reefer Gun
25 True Wish
26 Boston and John Lee Hooker
27 California
28 Keith Moon and the Sartorial Splendor
29 Richard Cromelinâ#x80
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s House
30 Lotus to New Orleans and New York
31 Moving in with Terry Ork
32 Summer of the Superglued Dishes
33 The Wailers and the Art of Walking Out 34 Reno Sweeneyâ#x80
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s: Part One35 Reno Sweeneyâ#x80
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s: Part Two
36 Television Rehearsing
37 Hilly on a Stepladder
38 Tom in the Middle and Island Records
39 Hellâ#x80
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s Syringes
40 Management, Flash Forward to Meltdown and Televisionâ#x80
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s First Single
41 The Laws and CBGBâ#x80
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s
42 Hello Cleveland, This Is Not Earth Music
43 Richard Visits the National Council on Alcoholism
44 Judy
45 Growing Up
46 Sire and Elektra
47 Anita and Keith
48 Recording Marquee Moon
49 Peter Gabriel and the West Coast
50 Visits with Velvert
51 The Ice Kings of Rock
52 Television Takes Europe 53 New York, What a Place54 Girls and Other Girls
55 Recording Adventure
56 Television Dissolve
57 The Hats, Atlanta and the B-52s
58 Dr. Steve and Various Overdoses
59 Alchemy and the Downward Spiral
60 Endocarditis and Bob Marley
61 Field of Fire: Part One
62 Field of Fire: Part Two
63 Matthew and the Little Kernels
64 The Coke Cat
65 John Doe and SXSW
66 Television Reunite
67 The Awakening of Kundalini
68 Leaving Television
69 Suffering
Part II: Outtakes
Appendix A: Meeting Mr. Gurdjieff
Appendix B: The Depth of Wish
Appendix C Poems
Appendix D: Discography

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