James Brown: 20 all Time Greatest Hits Book

What might've happened to sixties music if all the artists had some schooling in contract law, a realistic relationship with drugs and alcohol, and a rewarding monogamous relationship?

Anyway, that didn't happen. This book does a very good job tracing the complicated history of the Airplane and its spinoffs. But I wish I knew more about the people involved. Tamarkin seems to have access to all the key characters, but his close connection doesn't cut deep for any of them. So you get all the notoriety but little of the sobriety'just that they're all much more clean and quiet now. The fascinating thing for me about the Airplane is how such wildly different people ever made music together in the first place. After Bathing At Baxter's answers that just as well.