Dust jacket by Gavin L. O'Keefe

WEED, WOMEN AND SONG

Reminiscences by Fender Tucker

  Not much has happened to mild-mannered editor Fender Tucker since Richard Nixon was president, but just in case you've forgotten what it was like living in the turbulent 60s, it's all here. Tucker's pre-drug high school years and pro-drug army years are detailed in this 210-page collection of memories which spares no one -- especially the innocent. Read this book and you'll find out about his intimate relationships with marquee-changing, malingering, marksmanship, music, and most importantly, marijuana, as he grew into the contrarian iconoclast he is today. All of the subversive lyrics to the 60 or so songs he wrote during his musical years are included in the book -- and so you don't have to horribly imagine what they sound like, a CD with MP3s of all of the songs as recorded by Tucker in his home studio comes with the book.

   "There are reasons why rational adults never write the truth about their youth, and this book makes them agonizingly -- and perhaps libelously -- clear." -- Knees Calhoon