The rock world was Cameron Crowe’s oyster in memoir ‘The Uncool’

SAN DIEGO — Cameron Crowe was understandably wide-eyed and elated in the 1970s as a San Diego teenager who traveled here, there and everywhere conducting in-depth interviews with the Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Linda Ronstadt and other music luminaries for Rolling Stone magazine.

He is no less so when recounting those experiences in his warmly engaging new memoir, “The Uncool.” Published by Avid Reader Press, the book vividly chronicles Crowe’s experiences in an era when Rolling Stone was a must-read for many young people and an arbiter of nearly all things cool.

It was also an era when some of the world’s most celebrated rock stars granted almost unlimited access to Crowe, the endlessly enthusiastic and completely guileless whiz-kid writer. Still a student at University High Sch