Trips Rock Life in the Sixties

Language: English

Published by Scribner, New York, NY, 1973

0684127520 / 9780684127521

Series: Book 7 of 7 - Dover Books On Music: History

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B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a long previous owner's inked notation on the reverse of the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and chips missing. "Sander’s gritty pieces on Sixties subcultures soon caught the attention of national editors, and she began to get commissions from national publications. For her first assignment for Life Magazine, Sander agreed to go on the road with a rock band and report on the grueling demands and tawdry hijinks of the concert tour, including the coterie of girls and young women who pursued band members. According to Mick Wall in When Giants Walked the Earth, Sander had hoped to cover The Who, but that didn’t pan out and she was instead invited to join the still-up-and-coming Led Zeppelin for the last two weeks of their second American tour in May 1969. Sander met up with the band in Detroit and stuck it out until their last performance at New York’s Fillmore East. She was so infuriated and disturbed by the now-infamous incident that occurred after that show (and described on the last page of her story) , that she didn’t write their publicity-seeking magazine profile. Instead, four years later, after the band had become international megastars, she included her account in the book Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties. According to Wall, when guitarist Jimmy Page—who had befriended Sander on the tour—was asked about her story, he admitted, "That’s not a false picture. "" (From Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z).…

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Title
Trips Rock Life in the Sixties
Author
Sander, Ellen (Foreword by Terry Southern)
Publisher
Scribner, New York, NY
Publication year
1973
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0684127520
ISBN 13
9780684127521
Edition
1st Edition; 1st Printing.
Series
Book 7 of 7: Dover Books On Music: History

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