You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Sam Cutler Rolling Stones

 You Can’t Always Get What You Want by Sam Cutler





Sam Cutler was a tour manager for both the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. So given that kind of access you’d think Mr. Cutler would have something to say. Well, he does but the writing is horrid.


 The selling point here is the Rolling Stones and the  “Altamont” tragedy. Pretty much everything before and after is just to fill out the book, at least as far as I can see. 


 This is truly a case where my expectations led me astray. I was hoping for something . . . new, mind-blowing from this Rolling Stones insider. What do we get is a whole lot of  . . . wait for it. . . nothing. Maybe it’s not Mr.Cutler’s fault that he can’t add anything to what was already known about the tragedy.


Disappointment reigned when I realized that I was not going to learn anything new about the murder of Mr. Meredith Hunter.


Nothing. Nothing new.  Sheesh!

 

The pictures are another source of disappointment. Sam Cutler as a kid. Whoopee!! I’m sure your family was thrilled.

I wanted to love this book. I wanted to see a new fresh angle on the Altamont murder. But we got nothing.


We do learn about Sam Cutler’s abundant drug use. He was the tour manager for both the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead. So of course, he used drugs. And of course, he used lots of that Peruvian marching powder, as he likes to refer to it.


As I said, the selling point of this book is Altamont. Sam Cutler was there. Sam Cutler saw almost everything. Sam Cutler saw the killing. Meredith Hunter was killed but his killer was acquitted. Anyway, Sammy boy was there. Sammy saw it happen.


Oh, how I want to tell you all what Sam has to say about his day at Altamont but I won’t kill it for those of you who have yet to read this “classic”.


 I have to say that this let me down at pretty much every turn. This is a perfectly passable passel of papers. Nothing more You can’t always get what you want, not even a good book.

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