Eagles singer-guitarist Joe Walsh didn’t write “Rock Monster,” but the book is all about him.
The author is his former girlfriend of six years, Kristin Casey, who was a 20-year-old stripper the night she met him in an Austin, Texas, hotel room.
Walsh sang in “Life’s Been Good”: “I live in hotels, tear out the walls/ I have accountants pay for it all.” The book is filled with superstars and seedy hangers-on.
In the book, to be published by Rare Bird Books on Tuesday, Casey tells how Gary Busey begged in vain to get onstage and play with Walsh at the Greek
Theatre in LA. “Everyone wants to be a rock star,” Busey told her. “Especially actors.”
She recalls Jack Nicholson “barging into Joe’s dressing room to do bumps, rushing off, then reappearing with Harry Dean Stanton and a handful of fans . . .Joe watched from the doorway, more amused than anything, as Jack held court.”
Casey is less kind to Stevie Nicks. “I’d never seen anyone talk so much and say so little,” she writes. “Maybe that’s just how she was, I thought. Incredibly, ridiculously ditzy.”
But Bonnie Raitt really rates Casey’s wrath because, according to the book, she “tried to slut-shame me.” Casey tells how one night backstage, Raitt — “holding my gaze, as her mortified friends looked every which way” — said, “Seriously, my husband would never let me out in public [looking] like that.”
A Raitt representative said the singer could not be reached for comment.
Casey writes poignantly about how she kicked her addictions to drugs and alcohol and remained friends with Walsh after they broke up. She now lives in
Austin and works in the field of sex therapy.
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