For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield Book

Tragic bio about the legendary, inventive band who pioneered the country-folk rock sound which influenced everyone from The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Eagles, Beck, etc. Buffalo Springfield were spoiled rotten by having everything happen to them so quickly that when the immediate response to everything slowed down they fought like maniacs, i.e., swinging guitars at each other backstage like crazed gladiators.

Band morale was so low that they were ready to break up during the recording of their first album, which wasn't produced by a seasoned professional but by their highly invasive managers. There wasn't any group loyalty either, so members' drug arrests, deportations and firings were met with cold-shouldered indifference. Surprisingly, the member bearing the most abusive brunt of BS hostility was Neil Young, so it was somewhat ironic to read about his subsequent success and eventual vindictive cruelty to the band much later.

This is the kind of book you want to show to someone who thinks they're going to slam into Hollywood and assume they're going to take the music world by storm.