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

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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;#x9C;What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?â#x80;#x9D;; 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 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 #x9C What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?â#x80 #x9D 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 #x99 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 #x99 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 #x99 s: Part One35 Reno Sweeneyâ#x80 #x99 s: Part Two 36 Television Rehearsing 37 Hilly on a Stepladder 38 Tom in the Middle and Island Records 39 Hellâ#x80 #x99 s Syringes 40 Management, Flash Forward to Meltdown and Televisionâ#x80 #x99 s First Single 41 The Laws and CBGBâ#x80 #x99 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