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Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution Paperback – July 1, 2002

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Backbeat Books (July 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 087930703X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0879307035
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starstake a sanity break
By Eric on September 4, 2003
Format: Paperback
This is exactly the kind of book you want to own, not the kind you want to borrow or get from a library. You will want to go back to it often, when you hear a song and want to remember who played what and if someone else recorded it first or after.
It is very entertaining and informative. Unterberger is a great storyteller and he tells the reader story after story. Like how Neil Young and Bruce Palmer teamed up with Rickey James Mathews (a few years later to resurface as Superfreak Rick James) to form a Toronto band, the Mynah Birds, and how their break-up lead to the formation of Buffalo Springfield due to a chance meeting on a congested Los Angeles freeway. A lot of funny stuff in the details of just this story.
Unterberger connects the dots on scores of 60s bands. He tells you who played with who before and after they were famous. Who played what brand of instrument. He tells the reader who came from a folk background, or a jazz background, or a country background.
For those of us who lived through the era, he reminds us of the zeitgeist that drove the music. But keeps us grounded by also reminding us that Steve Stills tried out for the Monkees and Sonny Bono was a star. It is true that Unterberger's book mentions maybe hundreds of musicians and songs, some we remember, some we have forgot, some we wish we had forgot and some we never heard of. But that is not boring. It's fun.
I love this book. It's not a long read, 282 pages including discography. It is full of information that will probably not help you save the world, lose weight or cook a better soufflé; but will make you smile (and might save your sanity at least for a little while). And that my friend is what the music was about. My only caution, it will cause you to jump to the CD section of Amazon.com and want to buy a whole lot of CDs.
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4.0 out of 5 starsTake a dip in the well-weather'd waters of folk-rock
By Phil Rogers on September 3, 2002
Format: Paperback
An amazing amount of research and organization went into this, including gazillions of interviews. Mr. Untermeyer, who at the outset adopts a healthy reverential attitude towards his subject, didn't actually live through the period (he was only around three years old when "Mr. Tambourine" hit). I think that this helps to explain why sometimes his sympathies aren't as glowing as they otherwise might be. Here and there his aesthetic judgements and character assessments fall somewhat flat; in some spots his prose (temporarily) gets thin and ragged. But in his defense, he had to backtrack to 'learn' this music, and in the process discovered how to genuinely love a good deal of it. What we end up with here is a serious and useful piece of journalism, almost a 'biography' of the period.
Here's one example of the kind of minor gaffs we encounter here: even at 15 years old, I sort of knew that Sonny and Cher weren't the profound artists that some of the others seemed to be, and neither was I ape[] crazy about them. But hey, they sounded really good anyway. And when DJ's Boots Bell ("your bearded buddy Bootsy"), Al Knight and others from WHOT radio ("the Hot Spot") in Youngstown, Ohio said that they were folk rock, none of my age group had any problem with the idea; in fact it seemed perfectly obvious to us. Having bassoons rather than 12-string Rickenbackers playing those staccato'd ostinados made no difference to us . . . it was all part of the new sound, which was [and it still does sound so] fresh, brilliant, and above all beautifully arranged. Most of all, it felt really right at the time. It really was aimed at us, not at the critics, and we didn't know nor would we probably have cared what they thought/wrote about "our" music.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Page Turn, Turn, Turner
By Rose A. Goergen on October 16, 2002
Format: Paperback
I love music but some books about music are better left unread. Some pop music aficinados are best advised to go back and just listen to the music as a few attempts to give a literary voice to the spirit of the sound can strike a dull and pedantic note. Not so with this book. I found myself often unable to put it away as the author packed each chapter with so many historical notes that I was not aware of; clearly he did his homework. Much of his information came straight from the source, the writers, musicians, producers, and other insiders who were the leading lights and inspiration of that musical genre known as folk-rock. Of course, if one is not a fan of this type of music (and I am)you may not be engaged by Joe Unterberger's writing. However, as someone who was entranced by the Lovin' Spoonful and the Byrds, I consumed Mr. Unterberger's book with great zeal. I think musicians will find his work especially appealing as Unterberger gives careful attention to the creative side of the artists featured in his book. But if you are like me, someone who merely loves to sing along with the marvelous tunes of the gifted artists who gave voice to folk-rock, you may enjoy reading about the historical aspects of the music that, to paraphrase John Sebastian, is magical and can set you free.
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5.0 out of 5 starsunterberger is the best music writer out there
By Stephen F Mulcahy on August 2, 2002
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when it comes to the 60's and early 70's, unterberger is the best music writer i know of. david fricke is also good. what i like about these two guys is that they refuse to get bogged down in 60's cliches, unlike dave marsh and christgau. these guys don't condescend to their readers, or try to tell them what to like. unterberger in particular is a champion of overlooked and underappreciated acts, whereas marsh and christgau tend to generally go for the tunes that are played to death or commercially successful. unterberger and fricke seem like nice guys who really care about music, and don't have a hipper than thou vibe or abrasive personality. they're not allied with the music industry either in the way that landau and marsh were.
unterberger's newest book is a concise summary of the folk rock era, with detailed analysis of the usual names like dylan, baez, and the byrds- but it also includes rather obscure and under appreciated figures from that time as well, at least to the average person, including tom paxton, fred neil, the great tim hardin, and judy henske. these people, and numerous others, were also important in the development of that genre. this book is a great read for not only the person who devours as much music trivia and information from rock's greatest era as he or she can, but it is also one that i would also recommend for the casual reader who just wants to know about the style and/or period. that's what i really like about this book, and unterberger's other works. they are eminently readable and entertaining, even humorous at times, and both music fanatics and the people who are ordinary, run of the mill fans will enjoy them.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book, however the type is to small for ...

Great book, however the type is to small for those of a certain age! Should be available on Kindle so we may adjust the print size!
Same with all of Unterbergers books!

Published 6 months ago by donna
5.0 out of 5 starsThis may be the best Richie Unterberger book I have yet read

This may be the best Richie Unterberger book I have yet read. I hung on every word and the level or research and quality writing in this book is superb. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Lee B. Sobel
5.0 out of 5 starsA Music History Lesson

I was a teenager when groups like " The Byrds" really set "Folk Rock" into full gear ! I've made my living playing music most of my life, and still teach guitar . Read more

Published 12 months ago by D. Stover
5.0 out of 5 starsFolk-rock, well...rocks.

For what this effort is, it is magnificent. Its appreciative audience is probably fairly limited, but it had me at the title and the cover photos. Read more

Published 21 months ago by hiskarapo
5.0 out of 5 starsA great read and excellently written

Richie's research is unparalleled on this topic. I would rate him above all other writers in this genre. A great read and excellently written. Highly recommended. Bravo!

Published 23 months ago by Ken McA
5.0 out of 5 starsexcellent

well written and it tells the many things I remember reading about as I was on the edge of being able to be one of those involved in this amazing musical generation

Published on June 5, 2014 by mike petee
5.0 out of 5 starsSimply the Best

If you are at all interested in the Sixties and particularly its music, this is certainly a book to read. Read more

Published on November 28, 2013 by johnf
5.0 out of 5 starsExceptional Book on music history

Very well-written book. Exceptional attention to detail and very well researched, all told in the chronology it all occurred. Read more

Published on July 19, 2013 by bbkfinn3
5.0 out of 5 starsThis book ROCKS!

Turn, Turn, Turn is an excellent look at the music of the 1960's. Having grown up in the 60's I found the book a fascinating trip down memory lane and was hard pressed to find any... Read more

Published on March 9, 2006 by Michael W. Turner
3.0 out of 5 starsThe case of the tell-tale extra "o."

Often the criticisms aimed at writers like Richie have this underlying attitude of "Man! I could, like, do this SO much better! Read more

Published on December 1, 2005 by Stan Denski

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