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Three Dog Nightmare: The Chuck Negron Story | 
 enlarge | Authors: Chuck Negron, Chris Blatchford
Publisher: Renaissance Books
Category: Book
Buy Used: $24.99
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 258561
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 365
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 1580630405
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9781580630405
ASIN: 1580630405
Publication Date: June 1999
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From 1968 through the early 1970s, Three Dog Night was one of the most popular rock bands in the world. With his sweet, soulful sound, Chuck Negron guided the group through eighteen consecutive Top Twenty hits: three hit the #1 spot, including ``Joy to the World,'' and eleven broke into the Top Ten. But while Three Dog Night was hitting the high notes of critical and commercial success, Negron was sinking into the darkness of drug addiction. The singer's downward spiral continued for several years, and after the band's thirteenth album failed to go gold in 1975, they called it quits. For Negron, who was supporting a $2,000 a day drug habit, the descent was fast and long-lasting, encompassing two decades of horrendous drug abuse and terrifying near-death experiences. That he survived the ordeal at all is a miracle; that he today has a new foothold on life and devotes a great portion of his time to helping others avoid the pitfalls of drug abuse is an inspiration.Three Dog Nightmare graphically traces the life and times of Bronx-bred Chuck Negron, who used his talent on the basketball court to gain a college scholarship, and turned his gift for singing into an unforgettable career. For the first time, Negron tells his full story, hoping that it will teach others the life lessons he had to learn the hard way.
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 Chuck Negron - Three Dog Night To Nightmare To Recovery October 9, 2008
Casadejunqueinc (los angeles)
Thank you, Chuck Negron. Your life and your story is a gift. Very few people in this world hit rock bottom and live to tell the story. Wow. I highly recommend this book to anyone dealing with recovery issues. Unfortunately the book is now out of print, and the selling prices of used copies are expensive, but you might be able to find the book at a library or second-hand book store.
 Drugs, sex, and rock 'n' roll, but still a good read April 13, 2008
Marky
The book takes us from Chuck's beginnings as an insecure kid who played hookie from school to spend the day at home alone rather than face class, through his basketball years, to his life as the guy we all knew (or thought we knew). Everything from an exploding penis from too much groupie poking, to the nightmarish world of total heroin addiction (which lasted a full 20 years), I found his story quite readable, and rarely boring. I don't think I skipped over a word in the book. As has been said before, it is an absolute wonder that the man still breathes.
It's A Wonder He's Alive Today April 11, 2008
booklover
Three Dog Night was one of my all-time favorite groups so I decided to read Chuck's story. I had no idea that his life turned out to be so chaotic, to put it mildly. Chuck talks about his story from a teenager, to doing drugs sometimes, to becoming a full-blown heroin addict, to the point where he was using just to keep from being sick. He has an amazing memory for detail, for about 70% of the book details his drug-using days. He is truly a success story, encouraging others to get clean and speaking to groups for free. Getting clean helped him realize how much he loved to sing and performs currently with a band of his own. I'm sorry to see that all members of Three Dog Night are currently not on good terms, for they were truly a fantastic group! I liked the book because he confronted the reasons why he did what he did - using drugs, and as a result, alienated his friends and family; he didn't make excuses for his behavior - he took full responsiblity for it and didn't blame anyone for his actions. He was an addict who succumbed to drugs and was lost for many many years till he entered a 9-month rehab program that finally brought him back to life. The book was very well written and is truly a success story.
Absolutely The Best Story Ever Written!! April 7, 2008
M. Campbell
Three Dog Nightmare The Continuing Chuck Negron Story is the most powerful and incredible story you will ever read. If you think living the life of a famous Rock and Roll Star is all glamorous you are so wrong. If you or someone you know is a drug addict or alcoholic and you think all hope is lost. Then you definitely need to read this book. The fact that Chuck Negron lives today to tell his story is a true miracle. The courage and strength that it had to take to open up his life in this book makes him the most respected person I have ever had the pleasure of knowing and meeting.
I get so upset with people that make comments like oh look how they wasted their lives on drugs and alcohol. Why do they do that, Why don't they just quit, how could they do that in the first place. Because it isn't a choice. It's an addiction and it only takes some people one time to try it before they are hooked. Most people don't know that it can also be genetic and handed down from a family member like a father or grandparent. It's part of your chemestry make up from the day you are born. Even if your own Mother and Father never drank a day in their life. How much do you really know about your family history?
Chuck does a great job in this book explaining what it really means to be a junkie. He also explaines the difference between some people that can be social drinkers and the difference between those that have additive personalitys. Those are the ones that get hooked and get hooked fast! Again that can all be caused as a part of your genetic make up by being born with and addictive personality or born an alcoholic.
If you don't think so, ask someone you know that smokes ciggerettes and has cancer or lung disease and ask them why they don't quit or why did they do that, or how could they mess their lives up like that. I'll tell you why, Cause Nictoine is a drug and it is an addiction. The addictivness of it is no different then the addiction of any other drugs or alcohol. I know cause Im addicted nicotine in ciggerettes and I have lung disease. It's not a choice once your addicted. It's pathetic that I still smoke to this day and I can't quit. I've tried hypnosis and everything. It's not just a physical addiction it's a physcological addiction.
It's always easy for people to judge when they have never walked in another person's shoes. What our country really needs is alot more awareness and education on drugs and alcohol addiction. Most people don't even know that you can be born an alcoholic and never drink a day in your life. Your born with it. They can even do brain wave test on children to see if they are born alcoholics and most people don't know that either. That's why we need more education and awareness about it. Chuck more then anyone has really made that very clear in this book. He shows just how little people know about it and how little they understand it. Because no one in their right mind that had everything to gain and had everything they could want like he did would ever throw it away for a life like he lived as an addict and a junkie.
I know that God is the only reason that Chuck is alive. He has a purpose in life. If you think it didn't take a lot of courage and strength for him to open his life up to the whole world. Then take a good moral inventory of your own life and see how much you would be willing to tell someone in order to save a life. Would you ever open up your life about something your not proud of that you did wrong to save someone's life? Not to many people would. Chuck has opened a very dark side of his life to the world in hopes of saving others from one of the worst things in life and that's drug addiction. God Bless you chuck!
Just remember that the life that he save's, might be your own or someone you love. So I hope that everyone will read this book so you will know the signs and know what and what not to do to save a loved one. I hope that it will find you wanting to research alot more on it so you will have more awareness and educate yourself on it.
chuck, Thank you so much for opening up some of the most painful part's of your life in this book in effort to help others. You are truly a gift from God and a True Inspiration.
Martina Campbell - 04/06/2008
SHOULD BE READ BY EVERYONE June 3, 2007
Rebecca Campbell (Longview,TX)
This book should be required reading for everyone. Whether your are an addict, recovering addict, family member or friend of an addict, or even none of the above you should read this. If not an addict this book will help you understand what these people go though, that most are really desperate to get out of this life style and just how hard it is to get out. If you are an addict it will let you know that no matter how far down you fall, if you want it bad enough there is always a way up, there is always hope, don't give up.
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