This book is a musical biography of an impovershed child who teaches himself to play an Instrument rising from despair and depradation to the top of the East Coast Music Industry,

Only to finally succumb to the tortures of alcoholism failed relationships and a failed marriage he finally enters recovery in 1976. While physically stopping his consumption of alcohol some years later he is forced to confront demons born of his own emotional instability. The toetured upbringing of his childhood along with mistaken pewrceptions of reality become so intense he finally enters therapy and is briefly locked on a psychiatric ward of a New York City Hospital. It is then when he begins to face the truth of his personal being and slowly lifes himself back into the world of the living as a functional human being.

The Book contains  a great amount of historical content as well including his experience in the Greenwich Village Music Scene in 1963 as well as a series of chronological events which all of those born in the 1940's expereinced as children growing up. What makes his description of these events distinctive however are the thoughts he illustrates as these events unfolded. This book contains a great deal of profanity but written in a manner of which the reader can understand as many Baby Boomers were subject  to the reality of the cultural revolution in the Sixties.

In summary all of the chapters from beginning to end perfectly illustrate the plight of a great many in todays society. Reading his Journey through life may perhaps be of some help to a great many who remain enclosed in a world of silence,Prisoners of their own mistaken belief system which was indioctrinated into their character. The reviews are in on this book and without exception all who have read it have stated it was a Book they could not put down