Overview

In Hardtail Strat: Guitars, Heroin, Song, and Stories, Peter Gallway traces his coming of age in the electric pulse of Greenwich Village's 1960s music revolution. From 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 the 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-until the road leads to Tokyo, and finally Maine, where a Fender ""hardtail"" Stratocaster guitar leads to an unlikely rebirth.Written in the raw, lyrical rhythm of a songwriter who ""thinks in stanzas,"" Hardtail Strat is a story of music and madness, abuse and opportunity, loss and redemption-and the enduring power of song to set us free.A Hard Day's Night hits the theaters.We go to the opening.How can you not want to feel like that?Free.

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""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 musician, founder of the Lovin' Spoonful ""Peter Gallway's book, Hardtail Strat, is one of the best books by a rock musician I've ever read. Although it includes the relevant career highlights and has a fair share of famous names in it, the book is much deeper and far more poetic than most such memoirs. It comes from the inside out.""-Danny Goldberg, author of Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain ""From 1947 to 2002, named for the Fender Stratocasters that saved and changed his life and written like the verses in his lyrics, Gallway's memoir takes us from a heroin-high car crash to becoming a licensed therapist. Ending with a beginning and informed with the soul of a poet, here are a songwriter's journeys through fathers and fears, first loves, first songs, first bands, the music, the musicians, the writers, the films, the fuckups, and the friendships that shaped the man and the art.""-Mike Davies, Fatea Magazine ""In Hardtail Strat, Gallway takes you to Greenwich Village in the sixties, where he was an observer and participant in the explosion of folk and rock that spread all over the country. I first saw him at the Night Owl Cafe, the launch point for so many careers in music, and he has continued to make music ever since.""-Steven DePaul, former touring production manager for Joni Mitchell and Bruce Springsteen, author of the Rock & Roll Confidential mystery series

Author Information

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.

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