In Hardtail Strat: Guitars, Heroin, Songs, and Stories, Peter Gallway traces his coming of age in the electric pulse of Greenwich Village’s 1960s music revolution. From shooting rubber bands in Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe’s Sutton Place apartment to shooting heroin in the back rooms of New York, Gallway plunges into the intoxicating world of the Night Owl Café alongside the Lovin’ Spoonful and James Taylor, through the Troubadour, Mama Cass, the Manson family, and the record companies of LA’s Sunset Strip—until the road leads to Tokyo, and finally Maine, where a Fender “hardtail” Stratocaster guitar leads to an unlikely...
EN—Volume One is the collaboration between singer-songwriter Peter Gallway and acclaimed Japanese guitarist Yoshiyuki Sahashi, featuring guest appearances by legendary Japanese artists and studio musicians, recorded in Tokyo, and released on Vivid Sound Records in April 2025.