Nessuno crederebbe che questrsquo;opera sia frutto della penna di unrsquo;adolescente; egrave; semplicemente stupefacente quanto Ludovica di Martino sia stata capace di tratteggiare nelle sue righe lrsquo;immensitagrave; dellrsquo;amore. Forse egrave; proprio lrsquo;adolescenza che le permette di sognare e far sognare; egrave; proprio lrsquo;etagrave; che vive che lrsquo;aiuta a riscoprire e trasmettere la bellezza di un legame che travalica lo spazio e il tempo. Ciograve; che vedo nei tuoi occhi rispolvera un amore puro seppellito da anni di polvere; sofferta ipocrisia e indomabile rabbia. Egrave; il monito inaspettato da parte di chi; nella sua pur poca esperienza; ha saputo cogliere lrsquo;essenza stessa dellrsquo;unione tra uomo e donna senza abbandonarsi a false chimere. Ludovica di Martino ha mostrato nelle sue pagine di saper maneggiare perfettamente il termometro dei rapporti di coppia; chi lrsquo;avrebbe mai detto? Ad maiora!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. SAMS CLUBBy P. H. MundySams club days remind me of a Rolling Stones album title that shredded my late teens self-esteem like cabbage into cole slaw: "Liver than youll ever be." Turns out it wasnt a statement by the band; but the bootleggers who purloined the goods. When Sam got the boot from the Stones; he caught on with Jerry Garcia; and got hired by the Dead.So Sam in his time; like Ben Hur...rode two chariots; just not quite at once. And he brought the Dead what they didnt have...management spine. Curiously; a Brit soaked in a caste and class structure gets scraped off on the Dead; all sharing in common a near-insolvency; but the Dead being "Family" oriented; drinking the Kool Aid; and Cutler coming from a place where they still believe in royalty. Due to his questing spirit in his teens Cutler had learned the idea you could change your cosmic perspective with 1 tab of Blue Cheer. But was it anarchy; or democracy; with the Deads curious; rudderless; consensus decision-making and not-making; that emboldened Cutler to take charge?As he develops his story you learn The Dead were almost financially flat-lining before Cutler; and with the Parkers he jumped to the Code Blue and got the balance sheet out of the red and into the black with endless (200 gigs a year) touring; Cutlers account also masterfully unrolls a new tapestry in Stones and Dead reminiscences; stitching in details not known before; how the Altamont fiasco came to be...and it wasnt a dead albatross to be hung around his neck; tragic as it was.Cutler gives a humorous account of his knock-down; drag-out; roll-around on stage pre-concent with Mr. Antisocial Personality Disorder himself; Bill "I walked out of Treblinka at 5; still alive; and youre not gonna F me around" Graham; but the truth is? They both seem to have been cut from the same cloth. What Graham did for the Airplane/Starship when he took over their management (bankrupt; which is why they had to change their name); Cutler did for the Dead. He ruefully points out that following the Cutler/Parker regimen; the band turned the corner -- were buying houses and cars; while he could afford neither on his salary of $200 a week -- roadies pay at the time. Sam was gone by 1974; long before the Dead were making the Forbes top 40 year after year; and paying their roadies 100 grand a year.Maybe Sam made one mistake...he seems to have lived in those Aviator sunglasses you on the back of the book...and was inscrutable; and unyielding; doing his deals and rolling the combination on his hard-shell briefcase to lock in a load of dough; and undoubtedly a sizeable stash of drugs. Thats a snapshot of who he was. Hes brave enough to show us who he is now; in a couple of contemporary photos; having dropped the shades; gray-haired; even shirtless; tats and moles (man; youre living in Australia! get those checked out at the Derm doctor!). So Sam changed; evolved. But he wasnt there for the Uncle Scrooge rollin in his bankvault stage of the Deads rise; and of course the Stones had scraped him off in America to deal with the aftermath of Altamont and their train left the station; two lights on behind.Sam writes well; and as far as we can see; he meant and means well. When Meredith Hunter got shot at Altamont; it was Sam who showed the courage to leave the stage and go up to the downed man; to see what was going on; and whether he could help; wading through the Hells Angels and the indiscriminately worse biker wannabes who perpetrated and perpetuated chaos at Altamont; and killed the hippie movement by killing in concert.Sam actually lived with heart; just on a different wavelength from the Dead and Assoc. and in fairness to Sam; they didnt practice what they preached; starting with Ken Kesey and the Pranksters; Owsley and the Dancing Babes; and Dancing Bears...they didnt just let him be; truckin his way. They scraped him off too in a power play. Perhaps if hed had the humility to accept the humiliation? But thats not what General Patton does.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Just exactly perfectBy Tyler Roy-HartI dont usually find rock memoirs interesting at all - most rockers arent that interesting as people; are unwilling to get into anything real; or are unable to convey anything meaningful in a coherent way. This one is fantastic. Cutler is insightful and witty and soulful and his voice comes through clearly in the writing. He conveys both a gleeful sense of fun and a clear-eyed view of how the rock lifestyle destroys some of the best people who come into it. Neither naive nor entirely cynical; Cutler provides a rare balanced view.There is; of course; a tremendous focus on Altamont; and the whole book is in a sense structured around laying out Cutler s view of that day. To a certain extent it feels like he is trying to set the record straight or at least get his word in. Thats fair enough; and certainly he brings some interesting aspects of it to light.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. If you were at Altamonthellip;or were fortunate enough to be a reasonably early follower of the ...By The Amazing FezziwigI was a senior in high school when I went to the Altamont free concert with the Rolling Stones; Jefferson Airplane; Santana and others. (Others being the Grateful Dead; whom I had been following since late 1966hellip;they didnt play of course). I found this book accurate; entertaining and a very memorable read. Ive read virtually every book written on the Grateful Dead and The Rolling Stones and found "You Cant Always Get What You Want;" to be very well written. If you were at Altamonthellip;or were fortunate enough to be a reasonably early follower of the Grateful Dead; I highly reccomend this well written memoir. Well done; Sam Cutler!
