This Wheel's On Fire by Levon Helm (with Stephen Davis) is a rollickin ride of a bar band playing honky-tonks and dives to being Bob Dylan's most important side men, in front of tens of thousands of people. Single handedly The Band invemnted the West Coast Sound and the sort of music and harmonies people used to listen to. The book is a truly great read specially the bits about the birth of rock n roll, all fused with blues and country, in the deep south of America.
"We never played no fruit rock, no punk rock. We never wore dresses onstage or put no paint on our faces. We never blew up any bombs onstage. We didn't suck off any snakes onstage. We didn't wear tight pants or them big turquoise rings. We didn't take a piss onstage or throw any TV's out the window that I can remember. But today the music business has gotten so it's like Vietnam: a few guys making a lot of money, some guys getting cut up, and in five years ain't much of it even gonna be worth a pinch of sh*t." Levon Helm 1978
