Finished We 3/14/18
The book came with a CD that I recently found in a random stack and I added this to Google Play. I loved the music and I just happened to find this hardback on the shelves several days later; serendipity? There is no evidence that I've read the book, although some of it did seem familiar; there was a packing slip in the book saying that it was shipped 2/28/06.
Important Things To Remember-
Boomfield was 'born in Chicago' and his family lived on Melrose in the city and later moved to Glencoe.
His family's fortune was built on the restaurant supply industry. His father invented the sugar dispenser- glass cylinder with chrome flap.
Married his high school sweetheart and although they were not married forever, they were very close all of his life. She had a son and Mike was even close to him, and when she finally married again, he was close to her new husband- for life.
Guitarist with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
He was with the Butterfield Band when Dylan went electric at Newport Folk Festival in 1965. According to people interviewed in this book, the crowd booed mostly because Dylan only played three songs.
Guitarist with Electric Flag
Elvin Bishop was the smartest guy in Oklahoma and Al Kooper formed the 'Al Kooper Blues Project' and then, 'Blood Sweat and Tears'.
He had a fairly successful solo career, but he destroyed it by his lax attitude. Everyone MUST be on 'Bloomfield Time' or nothing else.
Although it's generally thought that he was a heroin addict, to me it sounds as if he would use anything and everything to get off.
When he got hooked on smack he switched to booze and this probably was more detrimental to his health. The Smack To Gin Experience.
According to this book he was found in a car because he actually OD'd in a nearby apartment and these people put him in the car. It probably was not a cocaine overdose, but some kind of designer drug and the people that he was with injected him with coke in an attempt to revive him.
July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981
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