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Jason “JD” DeCosta is the author of Backstage Pass: Decades of Sex, Drugs, Tragedy and the Darker Side of Rock & Roll, a #1 Amazon bestseller in three categories, including Artist Biographies and Pop Culture Music.

He spent more than a decade on the front lines of Hollywood’s most notorious music venues, The Roxy Theatre, Whisky a Go Go, and The Viper Room. First as a signed major-label musician, then as a stage and production manager, he lived the Sunset Strip from the inside out.

Those years, the chaos, the brilliance, the pressure, the addiction, the fame, and the tragedy, became the backbone of his memoir Backstage Pass: Decades of Sex, Drugs, Tragedy and the Darker Side of Rock & Roll .

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Backstage Pass: Decades of Sex, Drugs, Tragedy and the Darker Side of Rock & Roll
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100 FREE Giveaway of my 1990s/2000s rock-fueled #1 bestselling memoir: Backstage Pass

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1990s/2000s rock-fueled #1 bestselling memoir, Backstage Pass, on Goodreads.

It’s a firsthand look at what really went on backstage at places like
The Roxy, Whisky a Go Go, and The Viper Room, back when the music scene
felt dangerous and alive.

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