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Chargement... White Bicycles : Making Music in the 60s (2006)par Joe Boyd
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I thought this was ok but suffered in comparison to some other music memoirs I have read recently. I just don't think Boyd is that good a writer so as interesting as I found it, I never felt transported or like I was right there with him. And it didn't really enrich the experience of listening to the music. And where was any mention of Shirley Collins? Dude, come on. He produced some of my very favorite records though and for that, I am grateful. Joe Boyd was an American who became a big figure on the late-60s London music scene. Boyd was the man behind Hannibal Records, and was one of the movers & shakers during the early days of Island Records (he produced Fairport Convention, Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, Maria Muldaur & more). I've only read a few dozen pages so far, but looks to be an interesting one-man's-view of the folk-rock movement on both sides of the Atlantic. After having read only the opening chapters I am so excited to find a book that UNDERSTANDS what lay behind the so-called sixties music phenomenon: the discovery of what black music had to say about the way we felt about living in a world ruled by the pathologically normal. And why we wanted to reclaim and transform that message. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the Summer of Love got going, Boyd was running the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Boyd. More than any previous sixties music autobiography, Boyd's offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. As well as the sixties heavy-hitters, this book also offers vivid portraits of a host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Fairport Convention.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Boyd’s love of music comes through here. He acknowledges his mistakes, mourns those fallen to drugs and misadventure, and celebrates good music and good friends made. Nick Drake's rise and fall is perhaps the most poignant story here. ( )