Dan Fong

Mick Jagger and the 320-lb. Barry Fey

The book contains stories about Fey's dealings with such megastars as the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, and Ozzy Osbourne. But it also has a wild, seething chapter about Fey's tumultuous relationship with the influential Bay Area concert promoter Bill Graham. Below, we've rounded up five of Fey's most shocking stories about Graham. We can't vouch for the veracity of stories from a man who claims he once tried to have Graham killed. But everything below is alleged by Fey in the book.

1. Bill Graham did crack, according to Fey.
He says Graham phoned him after taking the drug for the first and only time, and that Graham called the experience "the greatest 15 minutes of my life."

It happened on Haight Street last night.

Better than: A Frasier rerun.

Last night I was sitting at home, finishing my dessert of fresh raspberries soaked in the blood of overzealous Phish fans, when I heard the sound. The clatter of a rock band boldy plying some three-chord ear rash on a narrow San Francisco street is unmistakable -- I've grown familiar with it after seeing several bands play on the roof of the Idle Hand tattoo studio during so many Lower Haight Art Walks. As that same noise filled my apartment, I wondered if perhaps the event had been moved to a random Monday night.

It hadn't. Outside on the Haight sidewalk, about 15 people were lined up along the north side of the street watching as three lads -- one of them shaggy-haired and wearing a red and black leather jacket -- pounded through a haggard version of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll," rebellious echoes careening around the surrounding buildings and drawing curious faces out of the nearby bars. Most of them were smiling and nodding along to the music.

Okay, so Hendrix was from Seattle, not San Francisco. We aren't gonna argue.

The supervisors decided to recognize the guitar god in honor of a four-disc box set called Jimi Hendrix Experience Winterland that will be released on that day. To celebrate, Amoeba Music will be hosting a party with Hendrix's sister, Janie, and legendary bassist and Hendrix fan Bootsy Collins.