title: Living the Blues: Canned Heat's Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival
author: Canned Heat
description: ...the group's drummer, Adolfo 'Fito&#34; De La Parra, takes the reader through riches and poverty... -- <i>Relix Magazine </i><br /><br />The bio guides us through the band's meteoric success as well as their long, tortuous descent. --<i>High Times Magazine </i>
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  **Chapter One**
  
  The breeze whispered around her, its touch furnace hot. Sweat beaded her skin,
  staining her T-shirt black and dripping from her ponytail.
  
  Around her the night pulsed, a bass-heavy rhythm that made her want to dance.
  The air was rich with the scent of sweat, alcohol and chlorine.
  
  Nikki stood in the shadows of an oak and sipped a lukewarm soda. Below her, on
  the main pool deck, bodies writhed in time to the music, unmindful of the heat
  or the closeness of others.
  
  They had to be mad. If _she'd_