Given the centrality of drugs to rock history, it’s surprising that more hasn’t been written about the specific intersection between the two. So it’s encouraging that Vancouver writer George Case forthrightly declares his new book, Out Of Our Heads: Rock ’N’ Roll Before The Drugs Wore Off, to be a history of rock through the lens of narcotics. And it’s frustrating when the book turns out to be a by-the-numbers, half-digested rock history with a goodly portion of nudging asides and barely concealed hero worship of chemical warriors like Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix. Case doesn ...
- 3/11/2010
- avclub.com
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