Trips

Trips
Antonio G. Pereira © 2019 Antonio G. Pereira
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        This Augmented Edition of Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties (with a new Preface and Postscripts to some chapters), is the 2nd printing of the original; (which was published in 1973) by Ellen Sander. https://www.amazon.com/Trips-Rock-Sixties_Augmented-Ellen-Sander/dp/0486828476

        I first became aware of Ellen Sander through the thoughtful and complimentary liner notes she wrote for Love's fifth and final album (a greatest hits LP), for Elektra, titled 'Love Revisited'. This was the original version, with the fold out sleeve. Her impressive and obviously heart felt notes, fit perfectly with the carefully and well thought out chronological representation of Love's 4 LP (plus that rare blockbuster, mother of a 1968 45 rpm single A side, 'Your Mind and We Belong Together') output on Elektra. The following post should give you an idea of just how influential a band they were. https://observer1984.blogspot.com/2016/03/arthur-lee-appreciation.html


        Sander's book is part memoir and part a collective history of her articles, that were published in Hit Parader, The L.A. Free Press, Saturday Review and Crawdaddy. What little there is in Trips about the Civil Rights Movement, leaves me with the impression that she had very little (if any) direct involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. For a much more informative take on the Civil Rights struggle within a Pop Culture context, there is https://observer1984.blogspot.com/2014/08/tomorrow-land-1964-65-worlds-fair-and.html Where Sander excels, is in her field of expertise, music and the '60s counterculture. She has many interesting stories to tell about her experiences with personalities she knew, events she experienced, among them, Monterey, Woodstock, Toronto, Altamont; as well as artists she interviewed, Paul Butterfield, Buddy Miles, Cass Elliot, Johnny Winter {a new piece about The Plaster Casters Of Chicago}, Led Zeppelin, and a lengthy and quite informative interview she conducted with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, backstage at the 1969 Toronto Peace Festival. As a complimentary assist, you can use:

(1). For an excellent photographic illustration of the artists and time period, Go to the Internet Archive https://www.archive.org Type https://www.sfae.com/photography/russell/exhibit1/russell_catalog.pdf into the Wayback Machine. Click and then choose Feb. 11th, 2005.

(2). Go to the Internet Archive https://www.archive.org Type https://www.eye.net/torontorockhistory/johnlennon/header.htm  into the Wayback Machine. Click and then choose Feb. 12th, 2005.

(3). https://observer1984.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-rolling-stone-coverwall.html

(4). And finally, these additional books from the same period.

https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Music-Other-Letter-Words/dp/B0006DWJ64

https://www.amazon.com/Superstars-Their-Own-Words-Clark/dp/0825660203