Road Mangler Deluxe by Phil Kaufman, Colin White Summary and Reviews
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Book Review: Best Autobiography by a Rock-n-Roll Manager yet.
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book! It's the funny and heart-felt inside story of the life and times of a rock music insider.Heck,he was the manager for some of thee best darn musical acts in the history of rock and country music.Period.He was not just their bodyguard,he was their friend and mentor as well.He laments about not being there to protect Brian Jones from the druggy landscaper ,who beat him over the head with a shovel.Jones was then dumped into a swimming pool,to make it look accidental.Phil Kaufman was earlier fired by the Stones ,that crazy and care-free Summer of 1969.It's not his fault Brian later died.It's amazing their musical act is still top-notch after touring for fourty plus years. Later ,Phil helped Manson record an album called ,"LIE". Everyone in the music industry,did not want anything to do with Charles Manson.And even Terry Melchoir and Dennis Wilson gave up on Manson and his Family,when the sessions began to fall apart.(Manson sounded more like Bobby Darrin the Crooner than a psychodelic hipster.)Manson's music is awesome ,yet their sinister religious beliefs led to the terrible slayings that landed most of the Family ,on ice .Manson was very charasmatic and had impressive song writing and singing ability.Yet, his age played a strong barrier in an industry obsessed with beauty and youth.Phil blames himself for the LaBianca murders,because Phil was one of Manson's targets.Phil was not home ,at his bungaloo,so the Mansonites went next-door to the LaBianca's mansion.So,the urban myth goes.It turns out that Leno LaBianca owed large amounts of money ,in gambling loses .He was using money from his super-market empire to cover some of his loses.I think Manson's heroin supplier was aware of this.And directed the Mansons to go next-door,if Phil was not at his bungaloo.Of course,'someone' had called Phil away from the scene ,earlier that evening.It's no surprise and no one blames Phil for leaving the hippy-dippy L.A. scene for the real Music City of Nashville. -Ps-Gram(O'Kelley)Parsons died way to soon.Gram Parsons was like the real-life Keith(Cassidy)Partidge in many ways. -If you know the story, behind the music, it adds to the enjoyment of reading this excellent musical autobiography.Bright Blessings and God Speed to Phil Kaufman.Buy this book !Book Review: Best Book Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Best Book Ever, if you're in to Gram or Rock/Americana bios. This is the 4th copy I've bought, 3 as gifts.Book Review: Fun Read
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a fun book to read although the last quarter of the book was boring for me. Phil Kaufman is a good self promoter and he has seen and done about everything in the music industry. I look at this guy as "roadie" who seemed to always be in the right place at the wrong time....or the wrong place at the right time all of his life and he as great stories. The snatching & burning of (rock legend) Gram Parsons body was what drew me to this book.Book Review: an inside document of times not too far gone
Summary: 5 Stars
Coming into circulation a few years after Phil, I still share a good part of the time he so vividly describes in the breathtaking roadtrip through the rock n roll and early country music era. Maybe a few artists herein mentioned wish he hadn't - but the reader gets a good inside look into days not too far gone. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.