Rhino's Psychedelic Trip (Book) [Paperback]

Alan Bisbort (Author), Parke Puterbaugh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2000

Woven of flashbacks by musicians, artists, authors, radicals and folks who "were there" in the '60s, this book by author Alan Bisbort (The White Rabbit and Other Delights) and Rolling Stone staffer Parke Puterbaugh travels through: San Francisco's rock revolution, with bands like the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead; the British underground scene, with Pink Floyd and Cream; the phenomenon of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper"; the dawn of psychedelia in Los Angeles, with the Doors and Frank Zappa; and rock's festival years, from Monterey to the Isle of Wight. It also explores psychedelic literature, journalism, posters, films, fashion, lingo and more, plus the impact of politics and the rebuff of radicals such as Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. In full color throughout, the book features lots of photos, a helpful index, and a foreword by Howard Kaylan of The Turtles.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Besides the narrative history, there are a number of engaging sidetracks...a great read." -- Tower Records' epulse, November 10, 2000

About the Author

Alan Bisbort, author of The White Rabbit and Other Delights, began writing about music and countercultural matters in 1972. Parke Puterbaugh has been writing about popular music since the late 1970s, when he joined the staff of Rolling Stone.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Backbeat Books (October 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879306262
• ISBN-13: 978-0879306267
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 9.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,874 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding color digest of those days!, March 20, 2006

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John Falicki (Moraga, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rhino's Psychedelic Trip (Book) (Paperback)

I was right there at the center of things in the SF Bay Area in the late '60s, saw Hendrix & Cream live, and of course all the SF acid groups, and I love this book, it is a quick, easy and colorful read of what was happening back then, entirely accurate and all the basics are covered. Well-written, well-designed, and full of interesting tidbits I never knew.

8 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars pathetic, January 24, 2007

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Evan Dump "xpgltr" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rhino's Psychedelic Trip (Book) (Paperback)

These dorks waste 8 pages reassuring each other that they are cooler for never having dropped acid, focussing instead on record collecting and self-assigned reading programs to carry them through their late-60s adolescence.Then they go on to diss Silver Apples and Amon Duul. So very wrong.

7 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dump Evan!, January 27, 2007

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Alan L. Bisbort (Connecticut USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rhino's Psychedelic Trip (Book) (Paperback)

Some clueless dolt from LA called "Evan Dump" has chosen to attack this book, which I co-authored with Parke Puterbaugh. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course, but my mother always told me to "consider the source." So, let's "consider" what "Evan Dump" finds worthy of 5 stars, based on his other reviews prior to this one. He gave five stars to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Anyone with even a tiny grasp of rock 'n' roll history knows that Reed released this 2-LP mess--nothing but feedback from his guitar, produced mostly when he was out of the room because even he couldn't bear to listen to it--in order to get out of a recording contract with RCA. It worked! They dropped him, and he went on to Arista. Dump also gave 5 stars to two "musical" acts that produce "sound collages." (Read: obnoxious noise). This, of course, makes him eminently qualified to pass judgement on a book that covers the music, art, journalism, literature, spiritual quests, drug taking and politics of an epochal time in American cultural history. At least it does in his own mind and, with easy access to a keyboard and mouse, on the Internet. Our book has received rave endorsements from John Sebastian, Felix Cavaliere, members of the Turtles and many others who have found it a spot on reassessment of those times. Dump's LSD fantasies have only exacerbated his tendencies to sulk and piss and moan because the music he loves has consistently cleared rooms and left him all alone, and sad. Boo hoo.