About the Book

Veteran record producer and journalist Harvey Kubernik is a Los Angeles insider with ties to some of the most influential performers and producers in the music business. In this examination of the music and pop culture of the 1960s, we read Kubernik’s conversations with famous people who speak very freely: Ray Manzarek, Berry Gordy, Grace Slick, Andrew Loog Oldham, Jim Keltner, Jack Nitzsche, Chrissie Hynde, Ravi Shankar, and Keith Richards. There is also an epilogue on Roger Steffens, a renowned scholar of reggae music.

No matter how much you think you know about the pop culture of the 1960s, you will find new information here. Certain predictable people -- the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan -- come up in almost every interview. Other names prominent in the interviews are Phil Spector and Sonny Bono.

Reading Kubernik’s interview with Marianne Faithful, we learn that she and Mick Jagger often listened to Vivaldi and Marvin Gaye in the mornings; Steven Van Zandt reveals that he is the son of a Goldwater Republican; Allen Ginsberg discloses that Bob Dylan tried, unsuccessfully, to get Phil Spector to produce a recording by Ginsberg.

This is Rebel Music is the initial volume in University of New Mexico Press’ new CounterCultures Series, available in Canada from UBC Press.

About the Author

Harvey Kubernik lives in Los Angeles, where for thirty years he has been a journalist in print, radio, and film.

Harvey also produced Ray's 1996 spoken word double CD, "The Doors:  Myth and Reality" which was just re-issued in November on the Fuel 2000 label, distributed by Universal Music.  Other recent projects include a feature interview with The Band's Robbie Robertson on "The Last Waltz" in the November 24, 2003 issue of Goldmine Magazine;  8 pages in the Andrew Loog Oldham book, 2Stoned;  contributor to the "Rolling Stone Book of the Beats" published by Rolling Stone Press in 2000;  an Eddie Izzard interview for January's HITS website;  an interview with Grateful Dead author and band historian Dennis McNally on the book "Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip," and others too numerous to mention.   Suffice it to say, this guy has been around and knows his stuff!

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