| CONTENTS |
| | Foreword |
| | Acknowledgments |
| 1 | Scootin' Back in the Pack |
| 2 | Layin' It By: Scratch Ankle and the Sharecropping Days |
| 3 | Fast Times in Jingletown |
| 4 | Enter the Dragons: The Fighting Levingstons |
| 5 | Butthole Shifters and Suicide Clutches |
| 6 | Here Come Them Dirty Dragons |
| 7 | Monterey Pop and Days of Love & Haight |
| 8 | Panther Power and the Long Hot Summer |
| 9 | Head Start Up the Grapevine |
| 10 | Bags, Brawls, and Bears |
| 11 | On the Side of Angels |
| 12 | Heavy Racin' |
| 13 | That Damned Pipe: The Cocaine '80s |
| 14 | The Chosen Few, the LA Defiant Ones, and the Black L.A. Set |
| 15 | Devil on My Shoulder |
| 16 | The Saga of Dangerous John |
| 17 | A Younger Breed of Dragons |
| 18 | Elimination |
| | Index |