Blues from Laurel Canyon
Title | Blues from Laurel Canyon PDF eBook |
Author | John Mayall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781785581786 |
John Mayall has played with them all; Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Andy Fraser... the list goes on. Now, in his 80's, John continues to tour all over the world and perform to sell-out crowds. With an incredible blues career spanning over sixty years, which rightly earning him the title "The Godfather of British Blues," John shares his experiences and encounters in what will be a must read autobiography for any true blues fans.
Blues From Laurel Canyon
Title | Blues From Laurel Canyon PDF eBook |
Author | John Mayall |
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Laurel Canyon
Title | Laurel Canyon PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Walker |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2010-05-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1429932937 |
Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon presents the inside story of the once hottest rock and roll neighborhood in LA. In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon's golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture. In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boomer's leading musical lights—including Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few—who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.
Blues From Laurel Canyon
Title | Blues From Laurel Canyon PDF eBook |
Author | John Mayall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Blues (Music) |
ISBN | 9781787591783 |
Canyon of Dreams
Title | Canyon of Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Kubernik |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781402765896 |
Traces the musical legacy of the California neighborhood, and the artists who lived there
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
Title | Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon PDF eBook |
Author | David McGowan |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-03-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1909394130 |
The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members of bands like the Byrds, the Doors, Buffalo Springfield, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Eagles, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Steppenwolf, CSN, Three Dog Night and Love, along with such singer/songwriters as Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, James Taylor and Carole King, lived together and jammed together in the bucolic community nestled in the Hollywood Hills. But there was a dark side to that scene as well. Many didn’t make it out alive, and many of those deaths remain shrouded in mystery to this day. Far more integrated into the scene than most would like to admit was a guy by the name of Charles Manson, along with his murderous entourage. Also floating about the periphery were various political operatives, up-and-coming politicians and intelligence personnel – the same sort of people who gave birth to many of the rock stars populating the canyon. And all the canyon’s colorful characters – rock stars, hippies, murderers and politicos – happily coexisted alongside a covert military installation.
Blowing the Blues
Title | Blowing the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Dick Heckstall-Smith |
Publisher | Clear Press Ltd |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Blues (Music) |
ISBN | 9781904555049 |
This is the autobiography of a master musician, the King of British blues saxophone. In the 60s and 70s Dick was the cornerstone of such seminal R&B bands as Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, the Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Colosseum, paving the way for R&B-influenced rock groups like Fleetwood Mac, the Yardbirds, the Animals and the Rolling Stones. With his pithy humour, Dick describes the revolutionary founding years of British R&B - his anecdotes about Ginger Baker, Alexis Korner, Charlie Watts and the unforgettable Graham Bond alone are worth the price. An extraordinarily entertaining book, Dick’s unrelentingly honest account of his musical career also reflects on what it takes to be a full time musician, and grapples with the racism and drug abuse endemic in the music industry. In the back of the book is a CD featuring 25 minutes of previously unreleased tracks by Dick Heckstall-Smith, illustrating the sheer musical diversity of his work.