European Rock & the Second Culture: Eurock - Softcover

Patterson, Archie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972309802 ISBN 13: 9780972309806

Publisher: Eurock, 2007

Synopsis

"The Book of Eurock" includes all the feature articles published by Eurock Magazine during its 30 years of existence. Artists included range from Amon Düül & Can, to Tangerine Dream, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Ash Ra Tempel, Savage Rose and Urban Sax + MANY MORE! A Special Bonus is the previously unpublished tome on Krautrock from 1971 by Lester Bangs, late Editor of Creem Magazine and gonzo rock journalist extraordinaire, Amon Düül - A Science Fiction Rock Spectacle: "the combined accomplishments of American and Limey bands have been seeded in less-sung rock scenes around the world, and some of these seeds are coming to the weirdest blooms heard in the Western world with the mostest bloom in one of the seemingly unlikeliest places imaginable: Scandinavia and Germany." –Lester Bangs

About this title

About the Author:

"Eurock" has become a trade name analogous with Archie Patterson's work over the years. Its beginnings were as a FM radio show in 1971 in Central California. In 1973, it morphed into a musical "fanzine". Subsequent to that throughout the mid 1970's he headed up two of the first international import retail mail-order businesses - Intergalactic Trading Company and Paradox Music Mailorder. During the 1980's he consulted on film scores in LA, including compiling source tapes for Michael Mann that resulted in Tangerine Dream doing the music score for his film Thief, as well as teaching music history classes at a public high school for five years called "Roots of Rock". From 1973 through 1992 Archie published 45 issues of Eurock. They read like a veritable who's who of experimental alternative music... name bands and the obscure were ALL covered in Eurock... as it was happening. In 1996 Archie produced the 5-CD box set Supernatural Fairy Tales for Rhino Records, chronicling "The Progressive Rock Era", 1967- 1976. In 2000, he published a multi-media CD-ROM, written/ audio/ video documentation of his work and the Euro scene entitled The Golden Age. In late 2002, he published the "Book of Eurock". It contains interviews, articles and reviews written for the most part when the music was in its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s. It colourfully captures the writer's sense of discovery, excitement, confusion, even disappointment, as they respond to the flood of new names, releases and paraphernalia of a movement in the making. In that sense, it is a cultural history as experienced through the music of a generation. The book's later chapters contain interviews done in the 1990's and 2000/02, with many new and old artists who continue to this day exploring the edges of the mainstream in music and commerce. In effect these later chapters tie together the past, present and future into a continuous thread Archie interprets as a "Second Culture".

Review:

EUROPEAN ROCK & THE SECOND CULTURE

"In this thick anthology of rock history, Patterson compiles every feature article and interview published by Eurock magazine.

 ... the nostalgic experience of reading through these artifacts helps one appreciate the combination of moments, innovations and risks that created each new step of a growing musical force across a continent... an index in the book's final pages organizes all artists, bands and record labels mentioned.

A fascinating aerial view of a music scene spanning three decades."

-Kirkus Indie

About this edition

• Publisher: Eurock
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0972309802
• ISBN 13: 9780972309806
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 716