Download or read book Canyon of Dreams written by Harvey Kubernik and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the musical legacy of the California neighborhood, and the artists who lived there

Download or read book Into This House We re Born written by James Hunt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating the meaning and the mystery of Jim Morrison and The Doors

Download or read book Shaman s Blues written by Denise Sullivan and published by Sumach-Red Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Morrison and the Doors wield an unquestionable influence on popular music and the mainstream, but behind the rock'n'roll myths and the monstrous creation the band called Jimbo, there were four young men in search of something mightier. Led by Jim Morrison's intellectual capacity and thirst for discovery, the band explored its dark themes from a distinctly prophetic and Western perspective: spirituality, drugs, political, environmental and social concerns all played a role - it was the '60s after all. But while Beat poetry, William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud swirled in Morrison's mind, and the band laid down tracks that followed jazz, classical and Far East patterns, they more often than not landed at the center of the blues. Lured by its nighttime rhythm, its cinematic storytelling abilities and inescapable American history, the band resisted, but Jim's connections to its rhyme schemes and emotional depths won out in the end: The blues is at once The Doors' known and secret influence - among others explored here - and Morrison was haunted by them. Chased by the stealthy demon alcohol until the end, and horrified by a past and future all too real to him, this telling of the Doors often-told story makes new connections with the subconscious tidal wave that carried Morrison from Gulf Coast Florida to California gold.

Download or read book Shaman Rises written by C. E. Murphy and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master the world's most abiding evil entity. She's sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade away and now the Master is bringing the final battle to Joanne's beloved Seattle. Lives will be lost as the repercussions of all Joanne's final transformation into her full Shamanic abilities come to her doorstep. Before the end, she'll mourn, rejoice and surrender everything for the hope of the world's survival. She'll be a warrior and a healer. Because she is finally a Shaman Rising.

Download or read book The New Wine written by Matthew Pinard and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting sequel to his first book The New Wine author Matthew Pinard expounds upon some of the greatest mysteries of all time. Does the devil really exist? What is the devil's true desires as it relates to mankind? Who is Archangel Gabriel and what is his purpose? What is the "Other Kingdom" referring to? What was the true meaning behind the haunting lyrics recorded by famous rock singer Jim Morrison and his band The Doors? All of these questions are answered with incredible photos giving the reader a glimpse of what Jim Morrison referred to as "the sun dome in the night." This book solves the mystery of the two golden keys handed to St. Peter by Jesus Christ and demonstrates how anyone who believes can enter the Kingdom of God prior to "death."

Download or read book American Trilogy written by Jefferson Lang and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Readers, From 1970-1974 George Harrison and others organized a series of Concerts for Bangladesh. These charity concerts raised millions for UNICEF's relief efforts to aid Bangladesh war victims. American Trilogy contains revealing biographies and original songs titles of the singers who performed at these concerts. This music inspired the foot soldiers of change to challenge the injustices of this world. Artists include JOAN BAEZ, JOHNNY CASH, BOB DYLAN, ELVIS PRESLEY, and BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. American Trilogy is also about the counterculture. Some want to brand the 1960's as nothing more than race riots, drug abuse, and draft dodging, nonsense! The counterculture didn't destroy society it made it better. Some have dubbed the Baby Boomers as the "Irresponsible Generation". Well if fighting for civil rights, the environment, ending the immoral Vietnam War, and challenging a corrupt government qualifies as being irresponsible then we are guilty as charged! I hope you take the time to read American Trilogy. Sincerely, Jefferson Lang

Download or read book The Doors FAQ written by Rich Weidman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been 40 years since the untimely death of L.A.'s mystic and rock's Dionysus, Jim Morrison, yet the Doors have consistently inspired new generations of fans worldwide ever since. Highlighting one of the most influential, original, and outrageous American bands of the 1960s, The Doors FAQ is a dynamic, unorthodox exploration of this remarkable band and its enigmatic lead singer. Drawing upon unique sources, Rich Weidman digs deep and serves up fresh perspective on the music, from the garage to the hits to the outtakes; and on the band's members, from their roots, influences, and key industry partners to their rare talents, personal foibles, love affairs, and arrests. This volume also details every studio album and live recording, all the highs and lows of the Doors in concert (including the notorious 1969 Miami concert), Morrison's 40-day trial, and the death of the “Lizard King” in Paris in 1971, as well as post-Morrison milestones. Unlike the straightforward narratives of other Doors biographies, this inventive, ceremonious biographical collage leaves no stone unturned, covering the band both with Morrison and post-Morrison, including the 2010 When You're Strange documentary and the recent pardon of Morrison by the State of Florida for the Miami concert. Countless rare images from album art to ticket stubs to posters accompany the text, in this dazzling edition of solid rock scholarship.

Download or read book Cinnamon Girl written by Daniel Weizmann and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Evocative, nostalgic, haunting, twisty, and true, Weizmann’s fast paced and smartly written CINNAMON GIRL is everything there is to love about a classic PI novel and more … much more." — Reed Farrel Coleman, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of SLEEPLESS CITY From the author of the acclaimed The Last Songbird, Lyft driver-turned-sleuth Adam Zantz returns in a neo-noir dive into the dark side of LA’s rock scene . . . Adam Zantz is still driving for Lyft, struggling to make ends meet, when his beloved former piano teacher makes a deathbed request: He wants Zantz to prove his son’s innocence in a decades-earlier murder case. There doesn’t seem to be much hope of solving such a cold case—until Zantz stumbles onto a test pressing of a never-released vinyl LP. The recording is of a high school garage band lost to the tides of the Paisley Underground, the acid-fueled early ’80s music scene that spawned the Bangles and the Three O'Clock. Down the psychedelic rabbit hole Adam falls, tracing the band's journey from the middle class garage to the precipice of fame—a twisted tale marked by crooked DJs, elder-scammers, wellness hucksters, a teen cult, and the woman who held the key to the band’s triumph and ruin. One part Raymond Chandler, one part Ziggy Stardust, Cinnamon Girl is both an indelible, moving portrait of Los .Angeles, and a suspenseful tale of greed, lust, betrayal, and the hidden price of teenage yearning. EXTRA! A QR code will be added for the liner notes of the album by The Daily Telegraph. These feature importantly in the novel.

Download or read book Jim Morrison Secret Teacher of the Occult written by Paul Wyld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Reveals Jim Morrison as a shamanic initiate and esoteric teacher who used his role as a rock singer to promote the adventure of the spirit and express the power of inner experience • Examines Morrison’s deep occult and artistic influences, including Kurt Seligmann’s The Mirror of Magic, Colin Wilson’s The Outsider, and the works of Jack Kerouac • Draws on Morrison’s lyrics and poems, his intimate writings, and the recollections of friends like photographer Paul Ferrara and Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek The groundbreaking 1960s band The Doors, named for Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, achieved incredible acclaim and influence, ultimately serving as a key group in the development of psychedelic and progressive rock. At the center of it all was front man Jim Morrison, who died in 1971 at age 27. Yet, as author Paul Wyld reveals, despite Morrison’s reputation as a lewd, drunken performer, he was a full-fledged mystical, shamanic figure, a secret teacher of the occult who was not merely central to the development of rock music, but also to the growth of the Western esoteric tradition as a whole. Wyld looks at the mystical works that inspired Morrison, including Kurt Seligmann’s The Mirror of Magic, Colin Wilson’s The Outsider, and the writings of Nietzsche and Jack Kerouac. Drawing on Morrison’s lyrics and poems, his intimate writings, and the recollections of friends like photographer Paul Ferrara and Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek, the author makes the case that Morrison was not simply a superficial dabbler in the occult but an actual secret teacher transmitting knowledge through the golden thread stretching back to Egypt and Thoth-Hermes. Explaining how Morrison sought to use his role as a rock singer to express the power of inner experience, Wyld shows how praxis was at the heart of Morrison’s approach, revealed in his journey through the arduous ordeals of shamanic initiation. He was a shaman, mystic, and sage—and an essential part of a great spiritual awakening to which he gave himself over fully.

Download or read book Turn the Page written by Victoria Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping chronicle regarding the involvement of a mysterious French count in the greatest mystery in Rock 'n' Roll history - how did Jim Morrison actually die? Last Words, Last Words - Out. These were the final words written by rock icon Jim Morrison, less than 24 hours before he took his final breath in Paris. For the first time ever, we learn those words were written for Morrison's murderer. The chilling letters detail the events leading up to his death, the names of those plotting against him, and the major changes he intended to make in his life. Turn The Page provides a graphic, disturbing look at a life cut too short; with newly found insights offered from the "Lizard King" himself. For the first time ever, Jim Morrison reveals his true plans in Paris; and whether or not he was going to return to The Doors. Learn his true feelings for Pamela Courson, and other significant people in his life.

Download or read book Stranger Souls written by Jim Cherry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the stranger souls I've met none are stranger than these, & none stranger than me. The thing is all these selves ...are me That say's it all. Stranger Souls is the fragmentation of a personality, mine. I am the killer, the vampire, the drunk, the lover, the star. As are you. The farther I go in, the further I reach out. At this point most authors might give a synopsis or an overview of the stories, tell you his favorite ones, or the genesis of each. Stranger Souls is a pastiche of genre's, science fiction, sword and sorcery are represented as well as traditional fiction to create a whole. Each story is a crossroads, where the characters meet to try and understand the strategies each employs to avoid the void, as it were, to fill the hole we all feel within ourselves. The world presented may resemble a world you think you're familiar with, but it isn't. The whole being created is a replication of the known world to explore a truth of life. There are two 'cycles' within the stories. The first cycle takes place in neighborhood bar from the perspective of its different customers. There's also the Hollywood cycle, that attempts to study fame and the seeking of fame and how it affects the people involved. Stranger Souls is a journey from the darker aspects of life and ourselves, to the light, and trying to reconcile that darkness with happiness.

Download or read book Love Him Madly written by Judy Huddleston and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sections of this book were previously published in a different form as This is the end-- my only friend"--Title page verso.

Download or read book Jim Morrison written by Stephen Davis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy, as layers of myth have gathered to enshroud the life, career, and true character of the man who was James Douglas Morrison. In Jim Morrison, critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis, author of Hammer of the Gods, unmasks Morrison’s constructed personas of the Lizard King and Mr. Mojo Risin’ to reveal a man of fierce intelligence whose own destructive tendencies both fueled his creative ambitions and brought about his downfall. Gathered from dozens of original interviews and investigations of Morrison’s personal journals, Davis has assembled a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius, tracing the arc of Morrison’s life from his troubled youth to his international stardom, when his drug and alcohol binges, tumultuous sexual affairs, and fractious personal relationships reached a frenzied peak. For the first time, Davis is able to reconstruct Morrison’s last days in Paris to solve one of the greatest mysteries in music history in a shocking final chapter. Compelling and harrowing, intimate and revelatory, Jim Morrison is the definitive biography of the rock idol in snakeskin and leather who defined the 1960s.

Download or read book Riders on the Storm written by John Densmore and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is the real story.”—Robby Krieger “[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group. . . . Densmore is a fluent, articulate writer who both comprehends the Doors' unearthly power and is on familiar terms with their antecdedents in literature, theater, and myth.”—Rolling Stone “Well-written and touching . . . tells it all and tells it honestly.”—The New York Times Book Review “John Densmore's Riders of the Storm is as good an account of the history of the Doors as has been printed to date.”—USA Today “Riders on the Storm is very enjoyable, especially its homespun and self-experienced insights. John Densmore is a survivor and a seeker.”—Oliver Stone

Download or read book The Shaman s Mirror written by Hope MacLean and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huichol Indian yarn paintings are one of the world's great indigenous arts, sold around the world and advertised as authentic records of dreams and visions of the shamans. Using glowing colored yarns, the Huichol Indians of Mexico paint the mystical symbols of their culture—the hallucinogenic peyote cactus, the blue deer-spirit who appears to the shamans as they croon their songs around the fire in all-night ceremonies deep in the Sierra Madre mountains, and the pilgrimages to sacred sites, high in the central Mexican desert of Wirikuta. Hope MacLean provides the first comprehensive study of Huichol yarn paintings, from their origins as sacred offerings to their transformation into commercial art. Drawing on twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork, she interviews Huichol artists who have innovated important themes and styles. She compares the artists' views with those of art dealers and government officials to show how yarn painters respond to market influences while still keeping their religious beliefs. Most innovative is her exploration of what it means to say a tourist art is based on dreams and visions of the shamans. She explains what visionary experience means in Huichol culture and discusses the influence of the hallucinogenic peyote cactus on the Huichol's remarkable use of color. She uncovers a deep structure of visionary experience, rooted in Huichol concepts of soul-energy, and shows how this remarkable conception may be linked to visionary experiences as described by other Uto-Aztecan and Meso-American cultures.

Download or read book Shaman s Touch written by Tracey H. Kitts and published by Tracey H. Kitts. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know what you might encounter in Atlanta. Alpha Male Shaman, Faeries, Werewolves, Vampires, Wizards, Witches, Demigods, Curses, Monsters, Demons, True Love, Sexy Elves, Magic, and More. This is Book One in the Unseelie of Atlanta series. Each book in this series is a standalone story with returning characters. Luna Randal is a palm reader who needs help finding the creature who ate her best friend. She doesn't believe in faeries, but fae shaman Liam Corrigan, with his lavender eyes and long white hair, is unlike anyone she's ever met. When he sprinkles a potion in her coffee that "lifts the veil," her eyes are opened to a whole new magical world – touch-feely nymphs, sexy werewolves, adorable leather-clad elves, and a hot as hell horned demigod. Surely one of them can help locate the monster she is looking for. Warning: This story contains many awesome characters and one hard to resist fae shaman. You might be left with the urge to attempt to summon a hot demigod.

Download or read book Classic Keys written by Alan S. Lenhoff and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Keys is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book focusing on the signature rock keyboard sounds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. It celebrates the Hammond B-3 organ, Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, the Vox Continental and Farfisa combo organs, the Hohner Clavinet, the Mellotron, the Minimoog and other famous and collectable instruments. From the earliest days of rock music, the role of keyboards has grown dramatically. Advancements in electronics created a crescendo of musical invention. In the thirty short years between 1950 and 1980, the rock keyboard went from being whatever down-on-its-luck piano awaited a band in a bar or concert hall to a portable digital orchestra. It made keyboards a centerpiece of the sound of many top rock bands, and a handful of them became icons of both sound and design. Their sounds live on: Digitally, in the memory chips of modern keyboards, and in their original form thanks to a growing group of musicians and collectors of many ages and nationalities. Classic Keys explores the sound, lore, and technology of these iconic instruments, including their place in the historical development of keyboard instruments, music, and the international keyboard instrument industry. Twelve significant instruments are presented as the chapter foundations, together with information about and comparisons with more than thirty-six others. Included are short profiles of modern musicians, composers, and others who collect, use, and prize these instruments years after they went out of production. Both authors are avid musicians, collect and restore vintage keyboards, and are well-known and respected in the international community of web forums devoted to these instruments.