Negron’s account of free-lovin’ rock and roll on the road, however — from the ‎exploitation of groupies to his own sexual accomplishments — is covered in ‎exhaustive, sometimes implausible detail. The book has gained some notoriety ‎for the “penis explosion” episode, which is as repulsive, and ludicrous, as it ‎sounds.‎

While Negron’s band mates are generally spared, when he does illuminate his ‎dealings with them, especially his fellow vocalists, it is often in a negative light. ‎Danny Hutton, who appears to have been the band’s early leader, is said to have a ‎‎“dangerous” ego, and Negron “could no longer trust him with [their] careers” ‎when they disagree on releasing “One” (coincidentally, a Negron lead vocal) as a ‎single. Cory Wells is depicted as both miserly and passively complicit in forcing, ‎and keeping, Negron out of the reconstituted band. When Negron attempts to ‎rejoin them on stage for one song, in 1992, Wells turns him away, allegedly ‎saying, “We’ve been giving them hamburger for so long that if I bring a piece of ‎steak on stage, I’ll never be able to give them hamburger again.”

Other celebrities pass through the book’s pages and, given the pervasiveness of ‎drug abuse and Negron’s sometimes vindictive nature, most of them don’t come ‎off well, either. Sly Stone and his heavies are depicted beating Three Dog Night’s ‎road manager Bob Tomasso nearly to death over refusing to pay for a band ‎member’s cocaine. The legendary porn star, John Holmes, is among the ‎periphery of Negron’s junkie circle, who is ultimately implicated in the ‎Wonderland murders, which take place at the home of a friend where Negron ‎often shot up.

The L.A./Hollywood rock scene was so insular in Three Dog Night’s heyday that ‎Negron comes in contact with a number of other big names, in different ‎circumstances. In their early days, as Redwood, the band collaborated with Brian ‎Wilson, until other Beach Boys reportedly bullied Brian off the project; Mike Love ‎is quoted, true to his reputed character, as saying Redwood is “nothing.” Negron’s ‎band and Chicago encounter each other as collaborators and as both musical and ‎romantic rivals. And when Negron meets Julie, who becomes the mother of one ‎of his children, she was married to the Doors’ John Densmore and pregnant by ‎Allman Bros. Berry Oakley, who was already deceased.‎