Hotter Than A Match Head: My Life on the Run with The Lovin' Spoonful

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In October 1967, bass player Steve Boone took to The Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles - the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10. Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre: From smuggling marijuana into the US from Colombia aboard a boat, through a period of addiction and the eventual reformation of the Lovin' Spoonful, Hotter Than A Match Head tells a staggering personal and musical story.

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"Damn if you won't be unable to put the damn thing down ... People send me these books all the time and I skim them and toss them. But not Hotter Than A Match Head: Life On The Run With The Lovin' Spoonful, because of those songs." -- The Lefsetz Letter
"This book sheds some much-needed light on one of the classic American bands of the 1960s and forces an honest reappraisal of their music ... after reading this I'm even more of a fan, which makes Hotter Than a Match Head a great rock memoir in my book." -- The Rock and Roll Chemist
"Whew. It's a wild ride and Boone's has some serious storytelling talents (and got himself into some hairy situations) ... Hotter Than a Match Head tells it all in bright, colorful fashion. I mean, we all believe in magic, right" -- BLURT Magazine
"Unlike most memoirs of this type, it pays a lot of attention to the records, songs, and how they were recorded -- and not just the hits, but all of the album tracks as well." -- RichieUnterberger.com

Author Bio

Steve Boone is a member and owner of The Lovin Spoonful, and performs regularly at concerts across the Canada and the U.S. He lives on the northeast coast of Florida. Tony Moss is a Senior Editor at CBSSports.com in Fort Lauderdale and is the author of A Season In Purgatory: Villanova and Life In College Footballs Lower Class (2007). He lives in Boca Raton, Florida.