Highlights Of A Lowlife

Author : Milan Melvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986377006
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Highlights of a Lowlife written by Milan Melvin and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Milan Melvin was one of the most fascinating figures out of the sixties. In fact, a case could be made that he helped to shape the time of our lives. Peter Laufer is one of the sharpest journalists out of the sixties. In one of his last major decisions, Milan asked Peter to help him tell his story. Together they do, and it is one for the ages. Light up, buckle up and enjoy the flight. " -- Ben Fong-Torres "In a world of posers, Milan was the rare real thing. An adventurer and a strong friend. My friend. " -- David Crosby "When Milan Melvin rose point astride his iron palomino Harley, our caravan slept easy in the sixties, knowing he had one eye on the bad guys and heaven in his holster. " -- Wavy Gravy "Lean, lanky, self-contained, charming, and a natural gentleman - one of a dying breed even then. " -- Joan Baez Milan Melvin was a driven, elusive, creative, lovable adventurer who colored the lives of all around him. His many-faceted career started with a stint as an undercover operator for the FBI at UC Berkeley - until he started falsifying reports. He went on to trade Native American jewelry, import marijuana, hang with Hell's Angels, co-found alternative radio - notably the legendary KSAN San Francisco - work on films, produce music, befriend Janis Joplin, and marry Mimi Farina, the sister of Joan Baez, who wrote her very first song about him. Leaving America for 10 years, he lived with Tibetan Khampa guerrillas, funded a daycare center for Tibetan refugee children in Nepal, smuggled gems out of India, Burma and China, and manufactured jewelry in Thailand, before settling in Bali. On his return, Milan worked with film director Carl Gottlieb on "Caveman," appeared on "Saturday Night Live," produced TV shows and managed the acting career of former Oakland Raider John "Tooz" Matuszak. Returning to charitable work, he and his wife Georgeanne raised and funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of medical and material aid to anti-government organizations during El Salvador's civil war. In his last decade Milan lived with his wife in seclusion in Wolf Creek, Oregon, before moving to Mexico for his final adventures.

Author : Hank Rosenfeld
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493070878
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jive 95 written by Hank Rosenfeld and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco is an oral history of America’s first hippie underground FM station which broadcast the countercultural consciousness of the ‘60s and ‘70s to a new generation. A communal radio band of intrepid hellraisers, pranksters, and drug-enlightened geniuses defined this psychedelic era, from the Summer of Love in Golden Gate Park, to the rebellion and bitter end of the late 1970s, which launched the Reagan Revolution. Founded in San Francisco by Tom Donahue, a 1996 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, an entire generation of Americans discovered a new musical universe among dance clubs, light shows and street fests––the original pop-ups. Almost overnight, KSAN became an audio clubhouse, where anyone could belong with friends and the cool cats and hipsters they just met. Rock gods, political stars, and literary celebrities, including Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Sly Stone, and John Lennon were all interviewed by founder Tom Donahue and his cohorts, whose listeners “tuned in and turned on” to bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Quicksilver, Country Joe and the Fish, Hot Tuna, The Beatles and Santana, among others. Folk journalist Hank Rosenfeld was there during those final years––writing, producing, and announcing. His warm, funny voice presents a behind-the-mic experience at KSAN, the beloved, “Jive 95,” whose delicious dose of enlightened sunshine and 33 rpm LP dreamscapes ignited a radio explosion from coast to coast. So, how did KSAN go from a liberating voice to a corporate cliché? It’s all here in Rosenfeld’s insightful, hilarious account, which includes countless exclusive interviews with iconic performers and never before available in print or audio form.

Author : Holly George-Warren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476793123
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janis written by Holly George-Warren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle down—but couldn’t, or wouldn’t. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away—even after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplin’s family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.

Author : Seth Rosenfeld
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429969326
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversives written by Seth Rosenfeld and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversives traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld tells a dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance, illegal break-ins, infiltration, planted news stories, poison-pen letters, and secret detention lists. He reveals how the FBI's covert operations—led by Reagan's friend J. Edgar Hoover—helped ignite an era of protest, undermine the Democrats, and benefit Reagan personally and politically. At the same time, he vividly evokes the life of Berkeley in the early sixties—and shows how the university community, a site of the forward-looking idealism of the period, became a battleground in an epic struggle between the government and free citizens. The FBI spent more than $1 million trying to block the release of the secret files on which Subversives is based, but Rosenfeld compelled the bureau to release more than 250,000 pages, providing an extraordinary view of what the government was up to during a turning point in our nation's history. Part history, part biography, and part police procedural, Subversives reads like a true-crime mystery as it provides a fresh look at the legacy of the sixties, sheds new light on one of America's most popular presidents, and tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and unchecked power.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762799811
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous World of Butterflies written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely praised book chronicles Peter Laufer's adventures within the butterfly industry and the butterfly underground. Laufer begins by examining the allure of butterflies throughout history, but his research soon veers into the high-stake realms of organized crime, ecological devastation, museum collections, and chaos theory. His ever-expanding journey of discovery throughout the Americas and beyond offers a rare look into a theater of intrigue, peopled with quirky and nefarious characters—all in pursuit of these delicate, beautiful creatures. Read this book, and your garden—and the world—will never quite look the same.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493004476
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elusive State of Jefferson written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of Jefferson. Yreka, California, home of the secession movement, was named the temporary state capital. Local proponents, Members of the State of Jefferson Citizens Committee, began to stop traffic along Highway 99 at armed roadblocks to pass out political broadsides – their Proclamation of Independence. And, in December of that year, Judge John Childs of Crescent City, California, was elected the first Governor of the State of Jefferson. The United States’ entry into World War II just days later interrupted this growing movement. News of the bombing of Pearl Harbor replaced the planned coverage of Child’s election and overshadowed Jeffersonians perceived marginalization with a national sense of unity. But today what often is referred to as the mythical State of Jefferson remains as both an emblem of the north counties’ frustrations and as a cultural signifier that differentiates the region from the rest of California and the nation. Through interviews with residents and travels through the region, Laufer reveals the story of what could have been and the identity of the region that remains even more than sixty years after the apex of the movement.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762777184
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Animals Were Harmed written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative journalist Peter Laufer is back with his third book in a trilogy that explores the way we humans interact with animals. The attack of a trainer at Sea World by a killer whale in February 2010 is the catalyst for this examination of the controversial role animals have played in the human arenas of entertainment and sports. From the Romans throwing Christians to lions to cock-fighting in present-day California, from abusive Mexican circuses to the thrills of a Hungarian counterpart, from dog training to shooting strays in the Baghdad streets, Laufer looks at the ways people have used animals for their pleasure. The reader travels with Laufer as he encounters fascinating people and places, and as he ponders the ethical questions that arise from his quest.

Author : Cetywa Powell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595380921
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground Voices written by Cetywa Powell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underground Voices is a collection of thirty-three short stories fueled by noir, grit, alcoholism, mental illnesses, psychiatric sessions, torments, journals, confessions, and purging.

Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762799838
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Creatures written by Peter Laufer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caraway Carter
Publisher : Never Too Late Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearts Redesigned written by Caraway Carter and published by Never Too Late Books. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hot-shot architect. A burly barista. A second chance they didn’t see coming. Thomas Drake has never been a relationship guy. And he’s sure not looking for his next hook-up when he stops by the Brass Lamp for coffee, and he can’t keep his eyes off the hot older guy pulling espresso behind the counter. But Brodie has secrets he’s not ready to share, and he doesn’t have time for a sexy young workaholic, no matter how much the air crackles between them when they get near each other. Before they can figure out how to break down the walls around their hearts, though, they’re going to have to deal with a vlogger with a grudge, secrets forced into the open, and a stalker ex. With their lives thrown into turmoil, Thomas and Brodie are going to have to decide if what they are working on is worth the fight in the end. Hearts Redesigned is a standalone novel with a happily-ever-after ending. It’s the second book in the Professions of Love series — stories that give non-traditional couples a second chance. Preorder Hearts Redesigned to discover the men of Professions of Love today!