San Francisco Books

*Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010
by Greil Marcus
First Edition edition (October 19, 2010)
Bob Dylan And The Beatles, Volume One Of The Best Of The Blacklisted Journalist by Al Aronowitz

*  Bob Dylan's Original Lyrics
Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back DVD

*Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 DVD
Released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the psychedelic, free-spirited Summer Of Love - that began just after the historic Monterey Pop Festival in June '67 - For music archivist, Alec Palao, who for 20 years has been digging deep into San Francisco's musical past especially the mid- and late-60s, this was a labor of love. He designed this package and chose the artists and songs. Some of these bands went on to fame and glory while other bands never went much beyond beyond the San Francisco area's live performance circuit and local radio stations. The 4-disc set of music of the that time contain a lavishly produced book full of history, photos, posters and handbills. A fascinating and revealing audio-visual experience. weighs in at 77 tracks totaling over 4-_ hours of music.

  *Beneath the Diamond Sky:Haight-Ashbury 1965-1969  by Claudia Lehan, Charles Perry, Parke Puterbaugh, James Henke, Barry Miles
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Summer of Love with this definitive volume from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum--an incredible time capsule of the wildest moments from 1965-1969. 200+ photos.

*Take Me to a Circus Tent: The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual


*Somebody to Love?: A Rock-And-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick

*Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s by Nicholas Knowles Bromell
Weaving together memoir and musicology, history and politics, Bromell shows how millions of listeners in the 1960s mixed rock and psychedelics in a quest to make sense of themselves and their times.
  

*Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols
A deeply affecting biography of one of America's most brilliant and tormented stars, Scars of Sweet Paradise is cultural history of an era that changed the world for us all.

*The American Book of the Dead
by Oliver Trager
With never-before-published photos and more than 800 wide-ranging entries, this panoramic look at one of America's most innovative and beloved bands is "a rare encyclopedia that should be savored from beginning to end. Essential." (The Billboard Rock 'n Roll Readers Guide). 190 pages
*The Grateful Dead Movie (1976) *The Grateful Dead-Downhill From Here

* Don't You Want Somebody to Love: Reflections of the San Francisco Sound by Darby Slick, Stanley Mouse (Illustrator)
The tale as told by those who were there then and fortunately are still Here Now. Stanley Mouse rocks. :-)

*The Sixties: Notes of Discord by Judith L. DiGrazia

*Hendrix :Setting the Record Straight
Paul Mc Cartney said that 'this book is Hendrix'. It very honestly describes the actual life and times and troubles of Hendrix.Hendrix : Setting the Record Straight
Paul Mc Cartney said that 'this book is Hendrix'. It very honestly describes the actual life and times and troubles of Hendrix.

* Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix & The Post-War Rock 'N' Roll Revolution by Charles Shaar Murray "The best book on Hendrix," Crosstown Traffic won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Roots-savvy British critic Charles Shaar Murray assesses the lifework of guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the context of black musical tradition, social history, and the upheaval of the 1960s. 8 pages of photographs.

 * Rock Odyssey: A Chronicle of the Sixties by Whitcomb, Ian
The whirlwind of Mr. Whitcomb's fleeting fame, which swept him from Los Angeles to Paris with such groups as the Beach Boys, the Kinks and the Byrds, is the focus of this lively chronicle . . . when rock-and-roll exploded into a major growth industry. Around his story, Mr. Whitcomb has constructed a thorough and engrossing history of the mid-60's rock scene.

* Great Songs of the Sixties by Milton Okun (Editor)
Peace and love, protest, folk music, and flower power. Whether it was the music of the mainstream or the sounds of the revolution, the music of the 60s left a deep and undeniable mark on the music world. The 60s rocked and rolled like no generation before or since and influenced everything that came after. This book is arranged for Piano/Vocal/Guitar, has chord symbols,includes guitar chords and song lyrics.

* Peter Green - Founder of Fleetwood Mac by Martin Celmins, B. B. King
The Authorised Biography Paperback, 15x21cm, 239 pages, b/w photos. The story of Peter Green is that of an enigma: a Jewish cockney, whose stardom as a young blues guitar hero and founder of Fleedwood Mac brought permanent fame and whose original songs proved timeless. But in the early 1970s he gave it all up - just like that - and his musical legacy soon began to come second to reports about Peter Green the man: inmate, mad philanthropist and vagrant with dagger fingernails.

 * Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina
by David Hajdu
This book borrows its title from a 1965 Bob Dylan song. The book covers the same combustible period, a time when Dylan snapped into the lives
of other future counterculture heroes. Billy Strayhorn biographer David Hadju threads his narrative through the heady interactions of Dylan, singer Joan Baez, her mysterious bohemian sister, Mimi, and moody novelist Richard Farina.

*Love: Love Behind the Scenes on the Pegasus Carousel With the Legendary Rock Group
by Michael Stuart-Ware
Love were one of the legendary bands of the late '60s U.S. West Coast scene.
Their masterpiece Forever Changes still regularly appears in critics polls of top albums, while a new line up of the band has recently toured to mass acclaim.
Michael Stuart-Ware was Love's drummer and shares his inside perspective on the band's recording and performing career, and tells how drugs and egos thwarted the potential of one of the great groups of the burgeoning psychedelic era.

The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound (Mass Market Paperback) by Ralph J. Gleason released 1969
Gleason was a fan of the Jefferson Airplane from their beginning and wrote a lot about them and the scene early on.
it is a detailed and well-written S F retrospective, partly based on Gleason's old Chronicle columns, plus interviews with the Airplane members, and Jerry Garcia. This vintage book has photos and even a list of"all" the bands that existed in the S F area during the daze, photos and more including
The Used copies require some searching and it not easy hard to find a good clean copy. But here are a few possibilies for you to check out.

*The Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music by Larkin, Colin
In-depth look at the groups and solo artists of the 1960s, including not just the major acts but also many minor, lesser-known artists and one-hit wonders. Each entry provides facts about the careers, key dates, details of record releases and ratings for albums. This volume claims to have almost 1,000 entries and it runs to over 500 pages.The scope of the book extends beyond the UK and covers artists from all over the world making all types of music. Highly recommended for any lover of 1960s music who wants to find out more about the groups and recordings.