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Get the real skinny on the Bay Area's most illustrious rock and-roll, jazz, and blues musicians and their favorite digs from the one cat who should know -- the San Francisco Chronicle's longtime music critic Joel Selvin. Here are the stories, legends, and secrets behind the clubs, recording studios, famous homes, and final resting places of dozens of music greats, from Jimi Hendrix to Linda Ronstadt. With rare archival photographs of pivotal events and places, this lively compendium will ?captivate both resident and visiting music fans.?
Get the real skinny on the Bay Area's most illustrious rock and-roll, jazz, and blues musicians and their favorite digs from the one cat who should know -- the San Francisco Chronicle's longtime music critic Joel Selvin. Here are the stories, legends, and secrets behind the clubs, recording studios, famous homes, and final resting places of dozens of music greats, from Jimi Hendrix to Linda Ronstadt. With rare archival photographs of pivotal events and places, this lively compendium will ?captivate both resident and visiting music fans.?
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Joel Selvin has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. He is the author of several best-selling books on the subject, and previously collaborated with Jim Marshall on Monterey Pop .
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For twenty years, dancer Carol Doda was synonymous with topless entertainment on Broadway, doing umpteen shows a week on the tiny corner stage of the big nightclub at the intersection of Columbus and Broadway, "were it all started," as The Condor asserted over the years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
booking policy, live album, folk club, grateful dead Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Bill Graham, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, Janis Joplin, Bay Area, Huey Lewis, Mill Valley, Jerry Garcia, North Beach, Rolling Stones, Cow Palace, Marin County, Fillmore West, Palo Alto, Van Morrison, Steve Miller, Creedence Clearwater, Los Angeles, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Bruce, Market Street, New Orleans, New York New!
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For twenty years, dancer Carol Doda was synonymous with topless entertainment on Broadway, doing umpteen shows a week on the tiny corner stage of the big nightclub at the intersection of Columbus and Broadway, "were it all started," as The Condor asserted over the years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
booking policy, live album, folk club, grateful dead Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Bill Graham, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, Janis Joplin, Bay Area, Huey Lewis, Mill Valley, Jerry Garcia, North Beach, Rolling Stones, Cow Palace, Marin County, Fillmore West, Palo Alto, Van Morrison, Steve Miller, Creedence Clearwater, Los Angeles, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Lenny Bruce, Market Street, New Orleans, New York New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Monterey Pop by Joel Selvin in Front Matter, and page 34
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac in Front Matter, and page 22
- The Rolling Stones by David Carter on page 23, and page 126
- Lost and Found (Wild Thornberrys) by Lara Bergen on page 18, and page 19
- Duke Ellington by Scott Yanow on page 65, and page 139
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