Last Night at the Viper Room电子书

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part One: “When You’re Young, You Just Accept What Grown-Ups Tell You”

1 - Skylarking

2 - The Searchers

3 - Dear God

4 - One Night at the Viper Room

5 - Suffer the Children

6 - Follow the Leader

7 - Another Night at the Viper Room

8 - Meat Is Murder

Part Two: “I’m Going to Be Famous”

9 - Back in the U.S.A.

10 - Johnny Came from Miami F-L-A

11 - Show-Biz Babies

12 - Let’s Work

13 - The Magnificent Seven

14 - TV Eye

15 - Echo #1: Surviving

16 - Unmapped Territory

17 - If the Sky That We Look upon Should Tumble and Fall

18 - Echo #2: Stand by Me

19 - Young Hollywood 1985

20 - Family Affair

21 - Tilt-A-Whirl

Part Three: “An Excuse to Get That Far Out of Your Head”

22 - Small-Town Hollywood

23 - Welcome to the Jungle

24 - Echo #3: The Mosquito Coast

25 - Jungle Boy

26 - Last Year at the Viper Room

27 - His Name Is Rio and He Dances on the Sand

28 - Martha My Dear

29 - Coming-of-Age Story

30 - Rattlesnake Speedway

31 - I Am an Island

32 - Young Hollywood 1987

33 - I Hope the Russians Love Their Children Too

34 - Dinnertime for the Phoenix Family, Spring 1987

35 - Party at the Zappa House

36 - Echo #4: Running on Empty

37 - Running into the Sun but I’m Running Behind

38 - Ext. Phillips House

Part Four: “We’re All Worth Millions of Planets and Stars and Galaxies and Universes”

39 - Making Plans for River

40 - Food for Life

41 - Camp Phoenix

42 - Songs in the Attic

43 - Oranges and Lemons

44 - A Night in the Life

45 - Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?

46 - Down with the Ione

47 - Our Band Could Be Your Life

48 - Rolling on the River

49 - We Are All Made of Stars

50 - Alone We Elope

51 - Young Hollywood 1989

52 - Whip It

53 - How Do You Say Good Night to an Answering Machine?

54 - Senses Working Overtime

55 - Semper Fi

56 - Int. Still Life Café

57 - The First Cut Is the Deepest

58 - The Golden Age

Part Five: “Barreling Through Someone’s Psychosis”

59 - The Bottom of the Bottomless Blue Blue Blue Pool

60 - Young Hollywood 1991

61 - Psionic Psunspot

62 - You’re Where You Should Be All the Time

63 - The Refrigerator Parable

64 - Across the Way

65 - That Night at the Viper Room

66 - Satiate Lack

67 - The Movies of River Phoenix, Ranked by American Box Office

68 - Cowboy Mouth

69 - Burn Hollywood Burn

70 - Many Rivers to Cross

71 - The Last Picture

72 - Young Hollywood 1993

73 - Tonight’s the Night

74 - I’m in a Transitional Period, So I Don’t Want to Kill You

75 - If I Had a Hi-Fi

76 - First Night at the Viper Room

77 - Give Blood

Part Six: “I Don’t Want You to Die”

78 - The Bad, Bad Town

79 - Viper Heroin X

80 - R.I.P. RJP

81 - Broken Dreams

82 - Never Gonna Wither

83 - Echo #5: Montgomery Clift

84 - Closing Time at the Viper Room

85 - Blood on the Tracks

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes

Photographic Insert

About the Author

Also by Gavin Edwards

Credits

Copyright

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