Farren's trying to turn the clock back to the Sixties underground scene

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Crowded into beat-up station wagons, covering hundreds of miles a day, eating garbage food and living in cheap motels, the pace was crushing. Although Presley has never been directly associated with drugs, there is no doubt that the majority of musicians playing these backroad circuits depend heavily on amphetamines, Benzedrine and No-Doze. If the speed didn’t get to Presley, certainly the strain of seemingly endless one-nighters did. Nice white boys didn’t wear flash pink suits from the black side of town. They didn’t listen to black radio and learn R&B hits, and they didn’t get involved in brawls with rednecks who took exception to ’nigger lovin’ faggots’ getting the females in an uproar.

“Every day, every night was the same. He chewed his fingernails, drummed his hands against his thighs, tapped his feet and every chance he got he’d start combing his hair.”