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Book Synopsis San Francisco Rock by : Jack McDonough
Download or read book San Francisco Rock written by Jack McDonough and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the historical, social, and business reasons for the variety of pop musical forms fueled by the San Francisco music scene. Looks at satellite factors to the music such as radio, poster art, nightclubs, and studios. Features individual essays on the more than 100 significant recording bands to have emerged from the Bay Area.
Book Synopsis Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area by : Mike Katz
Download or read book Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area written by Mike Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco’s rich and unique cultural history since its time as a gold rush frontier town has long made it a bastion of forward thinking and freedom of expression. It makes perfect sense, then, that both it and the surrounding Bay Area should prove to be a crucible for some of the most enduring and influential music of the rock and roll era. From the heady days of Haight-Ashbury in the ’60s to today, San Francisco and the Bay Area have provided a distinctive soundtrack to the American experience that has often been confrontational, controversial, enlightening, and always entertaining. Perhaps best known for the '60s psychedelic scene which included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, the Steve Miller Band, Sly & the Family Stone, and Janis Joplin, the Bay Area's rock and roll history twists and turns like Lombard Street itself. The first wave San Francisco punks wrought the Avengers and Dead Kennedys; punk later gripped the East Bay, giving us Green Day and Rancid. From the folk and blues eras through the chart-topping sounds of Journey and Huey Lewis & the News. The rock equivalent of Manifest Destiny carried wave upon wave of young musicians in search of fame, fortune and the great lost chord to Golden Gate City. San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have collectively produced countless key figures in rock and roll, from musicians to journalists to entrepreneurs. The modern concept of the vast outdoor rock festival took root in and around San Francisco. The Bay Area is also where music history happened to artists from almost everywhere else: San Francisco is where the Beatles played their final concert and the Sex Pistols fell apart; where the Clash recorded much of their second album; where a drug-addled Keith Moon passed out during a concert by the Who only to be replaced behind the drum kit by an eager fan. Rock and roll is baked into the Bay Area’s culture and story to this day. A guide to the places that shaped the local scene and world-famous sound, the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area will take you to where music makers lived, rocked, performed, recorded, met, broke up, and much, much more.
Download or read book Punk '77 written by and published by Re/Search Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, San Francisco bands such as the Mutants, Avengers, Sleepers, Nuns and Dead Kennedys were playing weekly at local venues alongside out-of-towm headliners like the Ramones, Iggy Pop, and the Sex Pistols. In this text, James Stark docunments the emerging punk movement with over 100 photographs and mini biographies of the people and the bands who dared to put San Francisco punk on the map.
Book Synopsis Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area by : Tresa Black
Download or read book Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area written by Tresa Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area offers options for multiple ascents in more than 20 areas around the San Francisco Bay. In addition to the nuts and bolts of routes and ratings, information on coffee shops, and brewpubs, and other amenities in each area is included, along with notes on where rock climbers can take their four-footed climbing partners. Photographs, topos, and maps accompany the text.
Download or read book Geologic Trips written by Ted Konigsmark and published by Geopress. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis San Francisco Year Zero by : Lincoln A. Mitchell
Download or read book San Francisco Year Zero written by Lincoln A. Mitchell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political, tracing the city's current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, the explosion of the city's punk rock scene, and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.
Book Synopsis The Republic of Rock by : Michael J. Kramer
Download or read book The Republic of Rock written by Michael J. Kramer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1967 megahit "San Francisco," Scott McKenzie sang of "people in motion" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in motion, less eagerly, heading for the jungles of Vietnam. Now, in The Republic of Rock, Michael Kramer draws on new archival sources and interviews to explore sixties music and politics through the lens of these two generation-changing places--San Francisco and Vietnam. From the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters to hippie disc jockeys on strike, the military's use of rock music to "boost morale" in Vietnam, and the forgotten tale of a South Vietnamese rock band, The Republic of Rock shows how the musical connections between the City of the Summer of Love and war-torn Southeast Asia were crucial to the making of the sixties counterculture. The book also illustrates how and why the legacy of rock music in the sixties continues to matter to the meaning of citizenship in a global society today. Going beyond clichéd narratives about sixties music, Kramer argues that rock became a way for participants in the counterculture to think about what it meant to be an American citizen, a world citizen, a citizen-consumer, or a citizen-soldier. The music became a resource for grappling with the nature of democracy in larger systems of American power both domestically and globally. For anyone interested in the 1960s, popular music, and American culture and counterculture, The Republic of Rock offers new insight into the many ways rock music has shaped our ideas of individual freedom and collective belonging.
Book Synopsis Report Upon the Removal of Blossom Rock by : Robert Stockton Williamson
Download or read book Report Upon the Removal of Blossom Rock written by Robert Stockton Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region by : Doris Sloan
Download or read book Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region written by Doris Sloan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You can't really know the place where you live until you know the shapes and origins of the land around you. To feel truly at home in the Bay Area, read Doris Sloan's intriguing stories of this region's spectacular, quirky landscapes."—Hal Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "This is a fascinating look at some of the world's most complex and engaging geology. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in an understanding of the beautiful landscape and dynamic geology of the Bay Area."—Mel Erskine, geological consultant "This accessible summary of San Francisco Bay Area geology is particularly timely. We are living in an age where we must deal with our impact on our environment and the impact of the environment on us. Earthquake hazards, and to a lesser extent landslide hazards, are well known, but the public also needs to be aware of other important engineering and environmental impacts and geologic resources. This book will allow Bay Area residents to make more intelligent decisions about the geological issues affecting their lives."—John Wakabayashi, geological consultant
Book Synopsis San Francisco: The Musical History Tour by : Joel Selvin
Download or read book San Francisco: The Musical History Tour written by Joel Selvin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the real skinny on the Bay Area's most illustrious rock and-roll, jazz, and blues musicians and their favorite digs from the one cat who should know—the San Francisco Chronicle's longtime music critic Joel Selvin. Here are the stories, legends, and secrets behind the clubs, recording studios, famous homes, and final resting places of dozens of music greats, from Jimi Hendrix to Linda Ronstadt. With rare archival photographs of pivotal events and places, this lively compendium will captivate both resident and visiting music fans.
Book Synopsis The Rock & Roll of San Francisco's East Bay, 1950-1980 by :
Download or read book The Rock & Roll of San Francisco's East Bay, 1950-1980 written by and published by Microcosm Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For every successful local group that ever packed the Fillmore, Avalon, or Winterland Ballrooms, there were dozens of overlooked, and much better, groups that also hailed from the City by the Bay.” Explore the primitive, rocking rhythm and blues of the fifties, the garage and psych of the sixties, and the seventies punk and new wave scenes with this definitive history of an unsung era. Spanning rock & roll’s first three decades, these were the bands left out of the history books. This second installment in the Scene History Series is essential reading for music history nuts and record collectors, and mandatory for all Bay Area devotees.
Book Synopsis The San Francisco Tape Music Center by : David W. Bernstein
Download or read book The San Francisco Tape Music Center written by David W. Bernstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DVD, entitled Wow and flutter, contains recordings of concerts at the festival, held Oct. 1-2. 2004, RPI Playhouse, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.
Book Synopsis Harlem of the West by : Elizabeth Pepin
Download or read book Harlem of the West written by Elizabeth Pepin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem of the West reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s. With archival photographs and oral accounts from the residents and musicians who experienced it, this vividly illustrated tour will delight jazz fans and history aficionados.
Download or read book Bay Area Rock written by Thornburg and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse boulders and cliffs spread throughout the greater Bay Area provide the local climber with a bounty of climbing opportunity. This thoroughly researched 8th edition of Bay Area Rock introduces a surprising number of new climbs, boulders and top ropes, all within a two hour drive of San Francisco.
Download or read book Off the Wall written by Amélie Gastaut and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than one hundred posters from San Francisco's psychedelic rock music scene includes pieces created by such definitive designers as Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, and Rick Griffin, in a volume complemented by a history of psychedelic rock music and the movements that influenced its corresponding poster design. Original.
Book Synopsis Gimme Something Better by : Jack Boulware
Download or read book Gimme Something Better written by Jack Boulware and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral history of the modern punk-revival?s West Coast Birthplace Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley?s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, Gimme Something Better chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.
Book Synopsis Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City by : Mike Katz
Download or read book Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to New York City written by Mike Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the churches and street corners of Harlem and The Bronx to the underground clubs of the East Village, New York City has been a musical mecca for generations, and Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City is the definitive story of its development throughout the five boroughs. Plug in and walk the same streets a young Bob Dylan walked. See where Patti Smith, the Ramones, Beastie Boys, and Jeff Buckley played. Visit on foot the places Lou Reed mentions in his songs or where Paul Simon grew up; where the Strokes drowned their sorrows, Grizzly Bear cut their teeth and Jimi Hendrix found his vision. Rock and Roll Explorer Guide gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at how bands came together, scenes developed, and classic songs were written. Artists come and go, neighborhoods change, venues open and close, but the music lives on. Contents Upper Manhattan and Harlem Upper West Side The Velvet Underground Upper East Side The Beatles John & Yoko Central Park Patti Smith Midtown West Beastie Boys Midtown East Madonna Chelsea & Hudson Yards Jimi Hendrix & Electric Lady Union Square & Madison Square New York Dolls West Village Bob Dylan East Village Blondie Soho & TriBeCa Sonic Youth Lower East Side The Strokes Brooklyn Talking Heads Queens Ramones Simon & Garfunkel The Bronx Kiss Staten Island Rock & roll may not have been born in New York, but this is one of the places it grew up and blew up and presented itself to the world. From the churches and street corners of Harlem and the Bronx to the underground clubs of the East Village, New York City has been a musical Mecca for generations, and The Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City is an historical journey through its development across all five boroughs. The Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City restores a sense of time and place to music history by identifying and documenting critical points of interest spanning genres and eras, and delineating the places in New York City critical to its musical development and ultimate triumphs and tragedies. Through this lens, we can see and understand how bands came together, scenes developed, and classic songs were written. In some cases, the buildings are still there, in others only the address remains, but you still get a sense of the history that happened there. Among the many locations in this book are addresses musicians and other key rock & roll figures once called home. In a very few instances we’ve included current addresses, but only when the location is historically significant and widely known; otherwise, we consciously left current residences out. The Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City is intended as a fun travel guide through music history rather than a means of locating famous musicians. Most New Yorkers understand that everyone has a right to privacy. That’s one of the reasons many of these artists live here. Because of the city’s rich history, this book cannot be a comprehensive encyclopedia of music, rock venues, or the music industry; nor do we present the definitive biographies of the musicians included. The artists and locations chosen represent a sometimes broad look at the history of rock & roll in the city, with an eye on those who either grew up or spent their formative years here. But there’s so much more we couldn’t include, and we hope readers will be inspired to go even further, whether they’re hitting the streets themselves or experiencing the city vicariously from afar. Artists come and go, neighborhoods change, venues open and close, but the music lives on.
