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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: rock music
Book Review: Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir by Jann S. Wenner; Part One: The Era
I have recently read several histories and memoirs of the 1960s and 1970s, some of which are newly published. For instance, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by John Markoff tells of the entrepreneurial creator of the influential … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay Area, psychedelics, rock and roll, rock music, Rolling Stone magazine, seventies, sixties
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Book Review: A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally – Part Four: Music and Dead Heads
As I mentioned before, offstage (and sometimes on) the Grateful Dead were often not exemplary in their behavior. In fact, with few exceptions, their personal lives seemed to stagger from one dysfunctional situation to the next. Although everyone regarded Jerry … Continue reading
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Tagged Dead Heads, drugs, Grateful Dead, psychedelics, rock music
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Book Review: A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally – Part Three: Psychedelics and the Gestalt Mind
As I read on in A Long Strange Trip, I realize that it is important to remember that the idiosyncratic behavior of the Grateful Dead and Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, especially concerning drugs and alcohol but also the tendency to … Continue reading
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Tagged Grateful Dead, hallucinogens, Merry Pranksters, psychedelics, rock music
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Book Review: A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally – Part One: Background
I don’t think I ever heard of the Grateful Dead until in 1970 at the age of seventeen I headed down to Santa Clara University from Seattle for my first and only year of college. I was immature, naive, and … Continue reading
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Tagged acid rock, Bay Area, Fillmore West, Grateful Dead, hippies, music scene, rock music, seventies, sixties, Workingman's Dead
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Book Review: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinkster
The novel A Song for a New Day, which recently won the 2019 Nebula Award for best novel, has received significant attention for its uncannily accurate prediction of radical social distancing following a series of plagues and terrorist attacks. What’s … Continue reading
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Tagged indie publishing, isolation, On The Road, pandemic, rock music, self-publishing
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Book Review: The Armageddon Rag by George R.R. Martin
Although set in the 1980s, this book is actually about the 1960s. I lived the sixties in the early seventies, but I recognized all the cultural buttons Martin pushes, the references obscure and famous, and the sense of loss of … Continue reading
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Tagged eighties, rock band, rock group, rock music, seventies, sixties
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Reflections on The Who’s Performance of Quadrophenia in San Diego, February 5th, 2013
If truth be told, I didn’t even know that The Who were coming to San Diego, and even if I had known I would not have considered going, the primary reason being that tickets to rock concerts, starting as they … Continue reading
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Tagged Pete Townshend, Quadrophenia, rock music, Roger Daltrey, The Who, Writing
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