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Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in 60s Hollywood
On the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966, an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then suddenly vanished. From the moment The Byrds debuted at Ciro's in March of '65 - with Dylan joining them onstage - up to the demonstrations of 1966, clubs on the Strip nurtured and broke The Doors, Love, Buffalo Springfield, The Standells, ...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
July 12th 2007
by Jawbone Press
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Here’s a book that I had been eagerly awaiting for quite some time, and for the most part it realizes my expectations.
Subtitled "Rock ‘n’ roll’s last stand in Hollywood", L. A. scenester Dominic Priore has fashioned both a history and a polemic, detailing the extraordinarily creative and wide-open Los Angeles area pop music scene spanning roughly the arrival of the Beatles in early 1964 to the Sunset Strip teenage riots of late 1966, which effectively closed down much of the ...more
Subtitled "Rock ‘n’ roll’s last stand in Hollywood", L. A. scenester Dominic Priore has fashioned both a history and a polemic, detailing the extraordinarily creative and wide-open Los Angeles area pop music scene spanning roughly the arrival of the Beatles in early 1964 to the Sunset Strip teenage riots of late 1966, which effectively closed down much of the ...more
An exhaustive and well-researched look at a crucial point in pop-culture history, the years before AM radio caved to FM, when everyone started a band and L.A. made a stand to be reckoned as the last hold-out against the British invasion. Immensely entertaining, if only because it makes you wish you could explore the author's record collection...
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Andy
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Recommends it for:
indie rockers who think they're "cutting edge"
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Best rock book ever, which begins by tracing all the different music styles that preceded the garage-psych scene of the Sixties Sunset Strip, from surf culture to the East LA R & B scene to the folk music-coffeehouse explosion, etc.
All the top ranking bands from that period get covered, whether its The Byrds, Love, The Doors, The Mothers of Invention, The Seeds, Standells, Music Machine or Buffalo Springfield. No stone's left unturned. Not only are the bands covered but the Interna...more
All the top ranking bands from that period get covered, whether its The Byrds, Love, The Doors, The Mothers of Invention, The Seeds, Standells, Music Machine or Buffalo Springfield. No stone's left unturned. Not only are the bands covered but the Interna...more
Domenic Priore has a very hands on first person view of the history of how and what went down. Don't be fooled by the coffee table size of this book it is excellent and the archival pictures really add to the experience.
Prosaically written but chock-full of fascinating knowledge about the failed Hollywood rock and roll revolution. Recommended to despisers of '60s San Fran hippie elitism.
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Pretty good but the captions are inaccurate for some of the photos. Would still recommend it if you are a music nerd.
Great history of live shows in Los Angeles and on the Strip.
Exceptional!
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