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Take Your Protein Pills... - Brian Carney
(ISBN-13 : 978-1445264110)
Take Your Protein Pills is the biography of underground psychedelic rock band Poisoned Electrick Head, as seen through the eyes of their keyboard player Brian Carney. It's a no-holds-barred, manic, tragic and often hilarious account of life at the unglamorous end of rock's underbelly.
Essential and hilarious book that is guaranteed to make you laugh. |
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Tales of Power - Carlos Castaneda
(ISBN-13 : 978-0671732523)
Don Juan concludes the instruction of Castaneda with his most powerful and mysterious lesson in the sorcerer's art--a dazzling series of visions that are at once an initiation and a deeply moving farewell. |
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Tapestry Of Delights - Vernon Joynson
(ISBN 10: 1899855009)
An encyclopaedic guide to British music of the beat, R&B, psychedelic and progressive.
It includes an A-Z listing of the artists with bibliographies, personnel details and, for most entries, histories and comment on the music. |
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Tapestry of Delights: Expanded Two-Volume Edition: The Ultimate Guide to UK Rock & Pop of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976 - Vernon Joynson
(ISBN-13 : 978-1899855193)
Completely revised and updated edition, now a set that comes as two volumes! The original, published in 1995, was chosen as the fourth Best Music Book of the year by Record Collector and described as "an impressive 600 page job that includes more across the board info than most rock encyclopaedias" by Q Magazine.
Since then, many entries have been rewritten, more have been added and all have been updated to include relevant releases since 1995. Joynson covers British rock and pop between 1963 -76. Included are full discographies as well as personnel details, biographical info and more.
Features hundreds of new entries, with detailed discographies for all artists, and expanded critiques as well. An updated rarity scale is provided for all UK releases. Each of the two volumes is profusely illustrated throughout and contains an 8-page colour section.
This set of two books is lovingly written and compiled by a collector (helped by other collectors) for collectors and lovers of sixties and seventies rock and pop. |
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The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution - Jim Marshall, Joel Selvin
(ISBN-13 : 978-1608873630)
"Widely regarded as the cradle of revolution, California s Haight-Ashbury grew in the sixties from a small neighbourhood in San Francisco to a worldwide phenomenon. Legendary photographer Jim Marshall visually chronicled this area as perhaps no one else did. In this one-of-a-kind book, the full extent of Marshall s Haight-Ashbury work is stunningly displayed live concerts, powerful candids, intimate sessions with icons of the day, street scenes, crash pads, alleyways, and the Human Be-in all culminating in the definitive photographic record of a watershed moment in time. Featuring hundreds of images of everyone from Bill Graham, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane to Donovan, the Beatles, Allen Ginsberg, and Timothy Leary, The Haight captures the full scope and nuance of Marshall s San Francisco photography and offers fresh insight into the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, and beyond. " |
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The Teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda
(ISBN 13 9780140030617)
The Teachings of don Juan is the story of Carlos Castaneda's extraordinary experiences.
In 1960 Carlos Castaneda was a graduate student when he met Don Juan, a Yaqui Indian feared and shunned by the ordinary folk of the American Southwest because of his unnatural powers. During the next five years don Juan's arcana knowledge led Castaneda into a world of beauty and terror, ruled by concepts far beyond those of Western civilisation.
Using medicinal herbs Castaneda lived through encounters with disembodied spirits, shamans in the form of huge wolves, and death in the shape of silver crows. Finally, after a night of utter terror in which he knew that his life was threatened by forces which he still cannot fully explain, he gave up his struggle to become a 'Man Of Knowledge'.
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There's a Riot Going on: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of 60s Counter-culture - Peter Doggett (ISBN-13 : 978-1847671141)
Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution, from the Black Panthers to the Gay Liberation Front, from the Yippies to the IRA. Rock and soul music supplied the revolutionary tide with anthems and iconic imagery; and renowned musicians such as John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan were particularly influential in the movement. This is the definitive account of this unique period in modern history; a compelling portrait of an era when revolutionaries turned into rock stars, and rock stars dressed up as revolutionaries. |
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Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond - Chris Hillman (ISBN-13 : 978-1947026353)
Chris Hillman is arguably the primary architect of what's come to be known as country rock. After playing the Southern California folk and bluegrass circuit, he joined David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark and Michael Clark as an original member of The Byrds. He went on to partner with Gram Parsons to launch The Flying Burrito Brothers, recording a handful of albums that have become touchstones of rock-influenced country.
Hillman then embarked on a prolific recording career in various configurations: as a member of Stephen Stills' Manassas; as a member of Souther-Hillman-Furay with J.D. Souther and Richie Furay of Buffalo Springfield; as a solo artist; and in a trio with his fellow former Byrds Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark.
In the 1980s, Hillman launched a successful mainstream country career when he formed The Desert Rose Band with Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson, scoring eight Top 10 country hits. In the midst of his country success he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He has since released a number of solo albums with the most recent, Bidin' My Time, produced by Tom Petty. In Time Between, Hillman takes readers behind the curtain of his quintessentially Southern Californian musical journey. |
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13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History - Paul Drummond (ISBN-13 : 978-1944860110)
Born out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Elevators were formed in late 1965 when lyricist Tommy Hall asked a local singer named Roky Erickson to join up with his new rock outfit. Four years, three official albums and countless acid trips later, it was over: the Elevators' pioneering first run ended in a dizzying jumble of professional mismanagement, internal arguments, drug busts and forced psychiatric imprisonments. In their short existence, however, the group succeeded in blowing the lid off the budding musical underground, logging early salvos in the countercultural struggle against state authorities, and turning their deeply hallucinogenic take on jug-band garage rock into a new American institution called psychedelic music.
Before the hippies, before the punks, there were the 13th Floor Elevators: an unlikely crew of outcast weirdo geniuses who changed culture. Paul Drummond has spent years documenting every aspect of the history of this amazing band and amassing an unprecedented archive of primary materials, resulting in this comprehensive visual history. The book recounts the story not just of the Elevators as a band--wild and remarkable though it is--but that of the American counterculture itself: the hallucinogens, the rebellion and the truly profound music that resulted. The 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History places the band finally and undeniably in the pantheon of innovators of American rock music to which they have always belonged. |
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13th Floor Elevators: The Complete Reference File 1965-69 - Patrick Lundborg
A Complete Reference book for the 13th Floor Elevators enthusiast. Includes the following chapters: Timeline, Sessions, Discography, Boots and posthumous releases, Songs, Concert posters, Chart action, Odds and ends, Stacy Sutherland interview, Bibliography, and Appendix. |
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This is Hawkwind: Do Not Panic! - Kris Tait
(ISBN: B000TQGRIO)
1984 Hawkwind book written by Dave Brock's wife Kris Tait. Pretty rare these days and worth picking up if you are a fan of the band. |
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This is the Beat Generation - James Campbell
(ISBN 13 9780099282693)
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs had all seen the inside of mental hospitals and prisons by the age of 30.
This book charts the transformation of these experiences into a literary movement that spread across the globe in the decade and a half that followed World War II. |
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To Live Outside the Law: Caught by Operation Julie, Britain's Biggest Drugs Bust - Leaf Fielding
(ISBN-13 : 978-1846687969)
To Live Outside the Law is the first insider account of the LSD conspiracy ended by Operation Julie, Britain's biggest drug bust. The book opens with Leaf Fielding's arrest in a pre-dawn police raid and ends five years later with his release from jail.
The narrative moves back and forth between the harsh world of prison and his previous life - from a childhood at a brutal boarding school onto undergraduate days and his LSD epiphany in the summer of love, 1967.
Acid transformed him in an instant from nerdy scholar to footloose freak. His ten years of adventures in the hippie underground gave the title to this book - a quote from a Bob Dylan song - they also took him across Europe, to the Andes, to Indochina and on to the edge of the known universe. They also led inexorably to his downfall. |
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