High Notes: A Rock Memoir

A music agent's coast-to-coast coming of age from the 1960s to the 1980s when rock music was a movement. Hosting Liberace in a summer tent theatre, bailing Jim Morrison out of jail . . . are only a few of Loren's often surreal, rite-of-passage experiences in the music business.

Richard Loren's lively and colorful memoir isn't simply a behind-the-curtains look at working with some of rock's biggest names, including the Grateful Dead and the Doors. It's the story of rock & roll itself - how, in the '60s and '70s, the music leapt from the underground to the mainstream, and how young men like Loren were swept up in the madness and magic of it all.
DAVID BROWNE, ROLLING STONE contributing editor and author of  FIRE AND RAIN: THE BEATLES, SIMON AND GARFUNKEL, JAMES TAYLOR, CSNY AND THE LOST STORY OF 1970

When the Grateful Dead walked onto the stage in front of the Great Pyramid at Cheops - among the highest points of their illustrious ride - they could thank Richard Loren for the trip. His career has lots of other big moments - working with The Doors, the Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Garcia and his various side projects - and they're all in High Notes. He was there, and he tells it straight.  And it's a great story. 
DENNIS MCNALLY, GRATEFUL DEAD publicist and historian, author of A LONG STRANGE TRIP: THE INSIDE HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD