Backstage Pass

<p><strong>Not a memoir for the faint of heart. </strong><em>Backstage Pass: Decades of Sex Drugs Tragedy and the Darker Side of Rock & Roll</em> takes readers deep inside the legendary <strong>Sunset Strip</strong> a world of sound sweat ego and chaos.</p><p> </p><p>From the <strong>Roxy Theatre</strong> to the <strong>Whisky a Go Go</strong> to the <strong>Viper Room</strong> <strong>Jason JD DeCosta</strong> didn't just work backstage he lived there. For more than a decade he managed production wrangled rock stars and survived the madness that defined <strong>Hollywood nightlife</strong>.</p><p> </p><p>Behind the curtain he witnessed the rise of artists who shaped an era including <strong>Amy Winehouse</strong> <strong>Adele</strong> <strong>Marilyn Manson</strong> <strong>Courtney Love</strong> <strong>Red Hot Chili Peppers</strong> <strong>Sex Pistols</strong> and many more.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Every night was a collision of fame and failure.</strong> Between celebrity meltdowns last-minute miracles and surreal moments with icons like <strong>Mike Tyson</strong> <strong>Snoop Dogg</strong> and <strong>Anna Nicole Smith</strong> JD found himself at the eye of a cultural hurricane where the music was only half the story.</p><p> </p><p><em>Backstage Pass</em> isn't about nostalgia. It's about survival. It's the story of an insider who saw the industry from both sides of the stage as a signed musician and a stage manager watching the dream machine chew through artists road crews and anyone chasing the spotlight.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Featuring a foreword by legendary music photographer Kevin Estrada</strong> whose lens captured legends like <strong>Nirvana</strong> <strong>Rage Against the Machine</strong> <strong>Slipknot</strong> and <strong>Korn</strong> this book delivers an unfiltered look at the real cost of chasing immortality through art fame and addiction.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Equal parts hilarious heartbreaking and brutally honest </strong><em>Backstage Pass</em> captures the highs and hangovers of <strong>Los Angeles's rock scene</strong>. It's <em>Hunter S. Thompson meets Scar Tissue</em> a front-row seat to sex drugs and the dark rhythm of survival.</p><p> </p><p>For readers who love <strong>music memoirs</strong> <strong>rock autobiographies</strong> and <strong>behind-the-scenes confessions</strong> of Hollywood's wildest years this is the story they never printed in the glossy magazines told by the guy who was there when it all went down.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Raw. Loud. Unapologetically real. </strong><em>Backstage Pass</em> is a love letter to the chaos that built the legends broke the dreamers and defined a generation of music that refused to die.</p>