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| Title | : | Blood, Sweat, and My Rock 'n' Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (625 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 149309999X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-17 |
| Language | : | English |
It’s an honest and personal account of a life at the edge of the spotlight—a privileged vantage point that earned him a bit more objectivity and earnest outrage than a lot of his colleagues, who were too far into the scene to lay any honest witness to it. Set during the Greenwich Village folk/rock scene, the Sixties’ most celebrated venues and concerts, and behind closed doors on international tours and grueling studio sessions, this is the unlikely story of a rock star as nerd, nerd as rock star, a nice Jewish boy who got to sit at the cool kid’s table and score the hot chicks.. He had affairs with famous female folk singers, made love to Jim Morrison’s girlfriend Pam when Jim was drunk and abusive, partied with Elizabeth Taylor and Groucho Marx, dined with Rudolf Nureyev, conversed with Martin Luther King, Jr. But his memoir is more Portnoy’s Complaint than the lurid party-with-your-pants-down memoir that has become the norm for rock ’n’ roll books. and Tennessee Williams, hung out with Andy Warhol, jammed with everyone from Mose
Now, Katz and his wife, Alison Palmer have a ceramics shop, Alison Palmer Studio, in South Kent, Connecticut.. Steve Katz was a founding member of The Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears. He became a record producer, working with rock renegade Lou Reed, among others
Great book, great read, great life." - Judy Collins, singer, writer and survivor of the Sixties“Katz engagingly recounts fascinating stories in an insightful, intelligent, sometimes wistful and sometimes funny style that makes this one of the few rock memoirs worth reading from beginning to end.”-Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly) . I was there – it’s all true!” —Terry Ellis Co-founder of Chrysalis Records"Steve Katz's book opens the door on a magical time when the counterculture -- and the transformations of youth in New York, and California, and all of America -- were flowering. With a light touch and a wry intimacy, he adds to an important history: our own."-- Sheila Weller, author of the bestsellingGirls Like Us
A frank look at the rock and roll scene John P. Bradford A frank and honest, sometimes self depreciating auto biography from a guy who was in at the ground floor of the beginnings of rock and roll as we knew it back in the day. A must read for all who either were too young or stoned to remember the sixties and seventies.. A Masterfully Written Insider's View of the 60's and 70's Music Scene This is a great book! Usually I'm a fairly fast reader, but it took me at least six hours to read the first three chapters. It seemed as if almost every paragraph would send me off on a nostalgic trip through my memories of learning to play guitar in the early '60s and onward. Or chasing down a Youtube video that would lead to other videos, or a Google search for more information about a past source of inspiration. And while I was fami. "Rock and Roll is alive and Steve Katz is rocking" according to Steve M. Where to start? The book rocks and Steve is a star, so I can start by answering a question from the jacket cover of the book, Is Steve Katz a Rock Star?, YES he is. This memoir takes you through the many year's Steve has been involved with music. You get to meet many of the musical greats he met and played with, up close and personal. You feel like you are there with Steve as he hangs around with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Al
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