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Rocker Mike Doughty recounts travails in memoir (Boing Boing)
We needle our cultural heroes and then are delighted when they dissolve in
front of us. It happens again and again, in Whitney Houston and in Michael
Jackson and in Don Cornelius. They show us the way and when the way becomes
treacherous we wish nothing more than to see them fall.
That is why so many "star" memoirs are so fraught. The star has a swift rise,
a period of wandering, massive drug addiction, and reflection/renewal. Then
the rest of their output sucks or they stop producing altogether.
Mike Doughty is, arguably, a rare exception. His recent memoir, _The Book Of
Drugs_, tells the story of a young man - he was 22 when he founded Soul
Coughing with a bassist, drummer, and keyboard player at New York's The
Knitting Factory - who entered the music industry at its near-nadir. His band
was arguably successful, especially in a decade of one-hit-wonders (remember
"Sex and Candy?") and addled grunge rock, and he had a close relationship with
the arguably more well-known Jeff Buckley. Doughty tells his story in the
context of a decade that gave and took away the aforementioned Buckley,
Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain, ...
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