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Prisoner of Woodstock
Dallas Taylor is the original drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Dallas Taylor is considered one of the greatest drummers in Rock and Roll history. This is the story of his life before, during and after the band. The book captures the "Real Sixties" during one of musics greats times. Prisoner Of Woodstock is a graffic depiction of Dallas' experience with success and it's excesses, and his spiral into the world of addiction, and remarkable return as one of the Nations leaders in helping alcoholics and addicts. In 1990 Don Henley helped organize a benefit concert to help Dallas get a Liver Transplant. The book has a wonderful since of the "Recovery Spirit ", and is an inspiration.
242 pages, Paperback
First published May 13, 1994
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June 3, 2010
What an eye opener.
June 8, 2010
My brother picked up this book for me at the dollar store and it began my love of CSNY/CSN and their music. I also really enjoyed the book and especially reading Dallas's account of Woodstock.
February 18, 2018
Very interesting context to the CSNY story, but sometimes hard to follow as it jumps around in time. It does capture the thinking and experience of an addict quite well.
September 15, 2008
"Prisoner of Woodstock" is a chilling real life story about the effects of sex, drugs and living life in the fast lane.
"P.O.W." as it was referred to at many different occasions in the story is the story of a man that is reliving his whole life while under anesthetics during an emergency liver transplant. This man is Dallas Taylor drummer for the very popular band "Crosby, Stills and Nash. P.O.W. has very unconventional location and time changes through out the entire story. The main setting of this story is at Woodstock, but it also takes you through his childhood, his drug use, rehab and his surgery.
Because the story line jumps from place to place I am going to go out of order. Dallas had a rough childhood, his parents were divorced, he lived with his mom so the only father figure he had was his neighbor who died when Dallas was young, his grandfather died as well, and so did his mother. So he lived with his grandmother, and she said he should hang out with this older boy but the boy would rape Dallas while they were hanging out. All these things that happened to him ultimately lead to his experimentation with drugs and alcohol. During his life as a teen and young adult he had gone to many different rehabs and hospitals for multiple O.D.’s and attempted suicides.
Dallas Taylor thought all the pain he was feeling could be snorted, smoked or drank away. He hated pain of any kind and was always trying to keep up with his very popular friends. Some of which were obviously C.S.N. but also Jimi Hendrix, John Sebastian, Bruce Springstien and others. Woodstock is known as a time of lots of music, drugs alcohol and sex and for Dallas it was no exception. The entire time he wrote about Woodstock I don’t remember an instance where he said he was sober. C.S.N.’s drug use lead to them to a break up. Later in his life all his partying truly caught up with him.
Dallas’s liver started to fail him at a very young age. He actually needed to get an emergency liver transplant. This surgery was not cheap so the band got back together for a benefit concert in honor of Dallas and raised 120,000 dollars for his surgery. Although he says many times all the suffering in his life helped him get through the surgery he would stay clean for the rest of his life and he has and is still clean today.
Personally I really enjoyed this book and appreciated his willingness to share his story to help encourage people not to make the same mistakes he did.
"P.O.W." as it was referred to at many different occasions in the story is the story of a man that is reliving his whole life while under anesthetics during an emergency liver transplant. This man is Dallas Taylor drummer for the very popular band "Crosby, Stills and Nash. P.O.W. has very unconventional location and time changes through out the entire story. The main setting of this story is at Woodstock, but it also takes you through his childhood, his drug use, rehab and his surgery.
Because the story line jumps from place to place I am going to go out of order. Dallas had a rough childhood, his parents were divorced, he lived with his mom so the only father figure he had was his neighbor who died when Dallas was young, his grandfather died as well, and so did his mother. So he lived with his grandmother, and she said he should hang out with this older boy but the boy would rape Dallas while they were hanging out. All these things that happened to him ultimately lead to his experimentation with drugs and alcohol. During his life as a teen and young adult he had gone to many different rehabs and hospitals for multiple O.D.’s and attempted suicides.
Dallas Taylor thought all the pain he was feeling could be snorted, smoked or drank away. He hated pain of any kind and was always trying to keep up with his very popular friends. Some of which were obviously C.S.N. but also Jimi Hendrix, John Sebastian, Bruce Springstien and others. Woodstock is known as a time of lots of music, drugs alcohol and sex and for Dallas it was no exception. The entire time he wrote about Woodstock I don’t remember an instance where he said he was sober. C.S.N.’s drug use lead to them to a break up. Later in his life all his partying truly caught up with him.
Dallas’s liver started to fail him at a very young age. He actually needed to get an emergency liver transplant. This surgery was not cheap so the band got back together for a benefit concert in honor of Dallas and raised 120,000 dollars for his surgery. Although he says many times all the suffering in his life helped him get through the surgery he would stay clean for the rest of his life and he has and is still clean today.
Personally I really enjoyed this book and appreciated his willingness to share his story to help encourage people not to make the same mistakes he did.
February 14, 2013
Wow, i never realized there was another guy in CSN besides Neil Young...... I read this book fast, I liked the subject of Woodstock and The Dawn Of A New Day theme, I don't know how much is true or not,either way it proved interesting and took me out of my blues for a while..... Go Dallas,are you still in recovery?The liver transplant and gift of life is awesome!!!!!!!Sold youre rites fo 60 100 dollar bills, never looked at it that way till now, that sounds true, what a addict would do for a fix, to bad,but glad he made it back!
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