Country Joe and Me by Ron Cabral
A long time ago Country Joe and his Navy pal Ron Cabral had an idea to write
a book about the story of their lives which begins in the Navy in 1960. Follow
their interactions over three decades -- a roller coaster ride of shared
experiences in the military, education and in music. Told from the perspective
of "ground zero" it offers a unique look at the emergence of Country
Joe and the cultural, political, and musical revolution that blossomed in
San Francisco and Berkeley during the 60s and early 70s. Also included are
the lyrics to some of Country Joe's most important songs, memorabilia, rare
photos, a discography and more. A must read for every Country Joe fan
Who
the Hell is Stew Albert? by Stew Albert
Stew Albert was a cofounder of the Youth International Party, the mischievous countercultural organization whose members were known as Yippies.
Mr. Albert was clubbed by police in the mayhem surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and was named an unindicted coconspirator in the Chicago Seven trial that charged Hoffman, Rubin, Tom Hayden, and other antiwar leaders with conspiracy to incite a riot. Stew Albert enlisted John Lennon and Yoko Ono in a “Beatle/Yippie pact” that resulted in Lennon’s near-deportation. He ran for sheriff of Alameda County, California, where he’d earlier done months of jail time.
He named his memoir, "Who the Hell is Stew Albert?" because of a question Howard Stern posed on his radio show. Visit the Stew Albert Memorial web site. And the Stew Albert Yippie Reading Reading Room to learn about Skip and the cast of characters who were the Yippies.
Garcia
Now
in paperback comes the lavishly illustrated,
bestselling pictorial biography of the legendary lead singer of the Grateful
Dead.
150 color and b&w illustrations throughout.
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
'I laughed out loud so many times my wife thought I had Tourette's. It's so well written, full of detail, self-deprecating and funny. A seminal book - an intelligent, literate rock and roll memoir full of candour and wit.' Alan Parker
'There cannot be many stories left in rock that are as big as Pink Floyd's. And I doubt whether anyone could tell this story so well as the patient, witty man who watched it all unfold from his perch behind the drum kit.' Paul du Noyer
Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues
by Jan Mark Wolkin, Bill Keenom [Forward by Carlos Santana],
This is an oral history of a generation. Bloomfield was its chief protagonist.
Michael Bloomfield was the guitar player in the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band."Drawn from over 80 in-depth interviews with family, friends and colleagues, this oral history chronicles the achievements and anomalies of Bloomfield's career. It also offers a look inside some milestones of '60s culture: the white blues movement, with groups like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bloomfield's first steady gig; the special bond between young white blues players and the older bluesmen; the rift between purist folk singers and the new guard, which exploded when Bob Dylan 'went electric' at the Newport festival (with Bloomfield on lead guitar); and the fueling of the "supergroup" with Bloomfield's magic on Al Kooper's Super Session. This book also reveals Bloomfield's personal and professional decline in the late 1970s, which ended in his tragic and mysterious drug-related death. Along with its CD of unreleased tracks, rare photos and critical discography, you'll come to know the 'huge giant of a person' who played the blues 'as if he came down from a higher plane'.
Bob
Dylan's CHRONICLES: Volume One
The first installment of a three-volume memoir by the famously private Bob Dylan,
one of the greatest musical legends of all time.
This book took Dylan three years to complete,writing on a manual typewriter in
capital letters, to make it easier for an assistant to read and retype.
An attempt by one the most influential cultural figure now alive to give us a
straightforward look at his life, it is a beautifully written, singular achievement.
AsEverWas
: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor
by Hammond Guthrie (Author)
"You have in Hammond's book - what may be one of the quintessential freak
histories.
" Michael Simmons, LA Weekly/ Rolling Stone.
Reviewsby
Ramon Sender Barayon and Skip Stone
Review by Stew Albert
Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning
by Martha Tod Dudman
It starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties.
Blue Sky Dream
by David Beers
In addition to chronicling growing up in a family involved in the California aerospace industry of the 1960s, it also explores similarities and differences between the military-industrial command economies of the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War."The Crash of Blue Sky California," the Harper's essay that was the genesis of Blue Sky Dream, received a National Magazine Award for best essay in 1993.
A Child's History of America: Some Ribs and Riffs for the 60s 
by Charles Newman
TriQuarterly editor’s journal of his eventful travels in 1968: cops and kids clash in the Haight, students and workers revolt in Paris, tanks crunch down the streets of Prague.
Sometimes likened to the work of William S. Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon, Mr. Newman's novels explore soullessness and atomization amid the ruined temple of postmodern life.
From 1964 to 1975, he championed writers as diverse as Sylvia Plath and John Barth and introduced the vanguard of Latin American and Eastern European authors -- including Jorge Luis Borges and Czeslaw Milosz to TriQuarterly's discerning readership of American writers and intellectuals.
Heretic's Heart : A Journey Through Spirit & Revolution by Margot Adler
Adler was a young woman determined to be taken seriously and to be an agent
of change - on her own terms, free from dogma and authoritarian constraints.
From campus activism at the University of California at Berkeley to civil-rights
work in Mississippi, from antiwar protests to observing the socialist revolution
in Cuba, she found those chances in the 1960s. Heretic's Heart illuminates
the events, ideas, passions, and ecstatic commitments of the decade like no other memoir. Adler's memoir marks an initiatory journey from spirit through politics and revolution back to spirit again.
Bill Graham Presents My Life Inside Rock and Out
by Bill Graham, Robert Greenfield
The bestselling autobiography of the legendary promoter who shaped rock music
for over 30 years.
This definitive book of rock history has been called "a virtual compendium
of rock and folk stardom" by The New York Times. 50 photos.
OUT OF PRINT but available used from amazon for $50.00 or new $70.00
Ginny Good
by Gerard Jones
This novel on the life and times of the San Francisco Bay area back in the daze is a real page turner.
At times very funny and often very sad. I enjoyed this book because it is very well written and rings true to those times.
To America with Love: Letters from the Underground
by Anita Hoffman, Abbie Hoffman
The author and her husband, noted activist Abbie Hoffman, share the letters they exchanged in 1974 and 1975 while Abbie was in hiding to avoid imprisonment.
Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
by Marty Jezer
The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into action.
In His Own Write by John Lennon
A collection of highly-orginal stories, John Lennon's wry personality emerges
amuses his fans with his humorous insights about life.
Also includes over 30 of his distinctive, two-color line drawings. This title
is printed for the first time since the 1960s and has a new introduction
written by his wife, Yoko Ono.
Timothy Leary: Outside Looking In: Appreciations, Castigations, and Reminiscences by Ram Dass, Andrew Weil, Allen Ginsberg, Winona Ryder, William Burroughs, ... Huston Smith, Hunter S. Thompson, and Others
by Robert Forte (Editor)
I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary
by John Higgs
High Priest: Second Edition (Leary, Timothy)
by Timothy Leary
Living
The Blues: Canned Heat's Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and
Survival by Fito de la Parra
Autobiography of Fito de la Parra, drummer for the legendary blues band Canned
Heat. Here is the strange tale of the era when the band was managed by the
Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, making one of the first rock videos with outlaw
motorcyclists writing and producing. Filled with over 100 rare and collectable
photographs and artwork images from the '60s, '70s and '80s.
Redemption Song:
Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties by Mike Marqusee
An excursion through the politics and culture of the 1960s, using the often
contradictory career of "the Greatest" as the guiding thread. This
portrait of the boxer includes an investigation of the themes of black representation,
popular culture, the Black Atlantic, the exuberant individualism and mass
protest that came to typify the 1960s. Contains fresh examinations of Ali's
friends, the singer Sam Cooke, and Bob Dylan, whose retreat from protest
to introspection provides an illuminating counterpoint to Ali's own journey.
66 Frames
by Gordon Ball,Jonas Mekas ,introduction
This memoir serves as a time-capsule, allowing us to see the drug culture
and sexual liberation movement of the sixties as a step in a causal chain
leading to the sexual/social mores of today. Before he became the editor
of Allen Ginsberg's journals, Gordon Ball worked as the assistant to avant
garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas. Ball recounts his encounters with figures such
as Leslie Trumbull, Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, and many more, with his original
ideology intact.
Memoirs
of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture by Robert A. Roskind
An insiders view of the hippie counterculture between 1968 and 1975.
Just as the Beats immortalized their lives and times in such books as On
The Road, Robert Roskind likewise commemorates the liberated lifestyle of
the hippie era. This personal look back is also the archetype for a whole
generation whose quest for freedom and the meaning of life led to some mind-blowing
experiences.
My Husband the Rock Star:
Ten Years With Quicksilver Messenger Service
by Shelley L. Duncan
My
Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics
by John Downto Hazlett
John Hazlett's engaging study of writers from the 1960s demonstrates the
ways in which the idea of the generation has affected autobiographical writing
in this century. Autobiographers from the sixties claim to speak on behalf
of all members of their generation. However, each writer presents a unique
political and personal agenda. My Generation: Collective Autobiography and
Identity Politics.
Promise
of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties
by: Rowbotham, Sheila
Promise of a Dream is a moving, witty and poignant recollection of a time
when young women were breaking all the rules about sex, politics and their
place in the world. It is a a memoir that expands to cover radical history,
the left and the rise of feminism.
Sheila Rowbotham was, and remains, one their most effective and endearing
voices, serious and funny at the same time.
Ram Dass
The Only Dance There Is
Still
Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
Journey
of Awakening : A Meditator's Guidebook
One-Liners
: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
Sleeping Where I Fall
A Chronicle
by Peter Coyote
Movie actor Coyote's gritty and unsentimental memoir of the West Coast counterculture
during the '60s and '70s. In this book he relives his fifteen-year ride through the heart of the counterculture
- a journey that took him as the son of an East Coast stockbroker to the
riotous life of political street theater and the self-imposed poverty of
West Coast communal movements.
Split: A Counterculture Childhood
by Lisa Michaels
The author's father was imprisoned as an antiwar demonstrator in the '60s,
and visiting him in prison was part of her life, as was living in a bus with
her
mother, a back-to-the-land period, and a wedding that included readings from
"Quotations of Chairman Mao". She describes her upbringing with humor
and
clarity, and goes on to find special meaning in the "hippie" values
she learned,
tried to reject, and ended up espousing: independence, frankness, and ruthless
self-evaluation--values that have often been difficult to maintain in the
very
different world of the '90s
Younger
Than That Now : A Shared Passage from the Sixties
by Jeff Durstewitz, Ruth Williams
The authors of this book met on paper in the late '60s, when she was the
editor of a high school newspaper in Mississippi and he was the editor of
a high school paper on Long Island. Out of the blue, he wrote her a smart-alecky
letter, deriding the south, and she fired back, beginning a long exchange
that covered everything from religion to race to sex, and that led to their
meeting in person and becoming lifelong friends.
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