"By the age of 14, living in San Diego, he was writing record reviews for a local underground magazine whose main aim was to bring down Richard Nixon. Shortly after that, he started interviewing the bands of the day as they came through California first Humble Pie for Creem, and then the Eagles, the Allman Brothers Band and Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone."
"Alice insisted that Crowe skip two school grades, driving his precocity; she was also dead against rock'n'roll on account of its unbridled hedonism. When Crowe asks her what Elvis did on The Ed Sullivan Show that was so subversive he had to be filmed from the waist up, she clinically replies: He had an erection. Nevertheless, unbridled hedonism is exactly what the book depicts, through the starry-eyed gaze of youth:"
Cameron Crowe grew up repeatedly in the right place at the right time, encountering major musicians from an early age. At seven he saw Bob Dylan live, and by fourteen he was writing record reviews and then interviewing major bands for national magazines. His mother Alice shaped his education, urged precocious advancement, and opposed rock'n'roll while offering memorable aphorisms. Crowe's recollections center on aftershow parties, late-night jams, eager groupies, colourful characters like Freddie Sessler, and increasing cocaine use as the early 1970s progressed, all seen through a starry-eyed youthful perspective.
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