Before streaming, social media, and effortless self-promotion, the Pur’p’l Tur’t’lz built their own musical world from cassette tapes, photocopied flyers, borrowed rooms, and sheer nerve. Musician and songwriter Greg Brown revisits that world in his newly released book, Too Hard to Handle: Music and Mischief in the San Fernando Valley: The ’80s & ’90s. The Pur’p’l Tur’t’lz emerged from California’s San Fernando Valley during the 1980s and early ’90s. In the San Fernando Valley of the 1980s and early ’90s, Brown and his bandmates transformed living-room jams into backyard parties, free park concerts, parking-lot performances, club dates, and studio sessions. Too Hard to Handle: Music and Mischief in the San Fernando Valley: The ’80s & ’90s features a foreword by Evan Marcus Rotman and contributions from Larry Saltman.