Urban spacemen & wayfaring strangers : overlooked innovators & eccentric visionaries of '60s rock / Richie Unterberger ; foreword by Paul Kantner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unterberger, Richie, author.

Kantner, Paul, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock musicians--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Rock music--1961-1970--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (723 p.)

Edition:

Revised & expanded ebook edition.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco, California] : [Richie Unterberger], 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Roc""k documents twenty cult rockers from the 1960s. The book features extremely detailed investigation of the careers of greats like the Pretty Things, Arthur Brown, Richard & Mimi Faria, and Tim Buckley. Also featured are the Bonzo Dog Band, the Electric P

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Ebook Edition; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Made in Britain, Lost in America; The Pretty Things; 2. Psychedelic Sailors; The Crazy World of Arthur Brown; The Electric Prunes; Randy Holden; Kaleidoscope; 3. Rock Satirists; The Fugs; The Bonzo Dog Band; 4. Unheralded Heroes; Giorgio Gomelsky; Shel Talmy; 5. Two-Shot Wonders; Bobby Fuller; The Beau Brummels; Mike Brown; 6. Blue- and Brown-Eyed Soulsters; Thee Midniters; The Rationals; 7. Folk-Rock Innovators; Dino Valenti; Richard & Mimi Fariña; Fred Neil; Tim Buckley; Acknowledgements

About the AuthorLiner Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2015).

ISBN:

0-9915892-4-6