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sbaunsgard's review
3.0
Kaylan's memoir about his time in the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and The Mothers. The parts about music (and the people who make it) are pretty great. The personal life stuff... well, it's not that great. His love life was a mess. It is also less interesting to read about than the musical stuff.
psteve's review
3.0
Enjoyable, breezy memoir by the former lead singer of the Turtles, who wound up with Frank Zappa as part of the duo Flo and Eddie. As a native of LA, Kaylan's Turtles and their first big hit when he was about 19, and that sent him into rock history, as maybe a minor player with some big hits. A bunch of the fun is his incessant name dropping -- and what names they are. The bit set piece is the evening the Turtles meet Graham Nash, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Brian Jones, and at the close of which he vomits all over Jimi Hendrix. Kaylan is pretty open about how he treated his wives, the girls on the road, and career lows. Entertainng stuff, though as with most celeb autobios, it does get a bit perfunctory and repetitive towards the end.
ratbaggy's review against another edition
4.0
A brutal look at Howard's life. The amount of famous friends is astounding. A good look at the rock world of the 60's and 70's. A really good read.
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