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Making It

Music, Sex & Drugs in the Golden Age of Rock

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For those too young to have lived it, or too high to remember it…

Ride shotgun in Ted Myers’s rollercoaster pursuit of rock stardom through the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. He never quite makes it, but the quest delivers wild highs, hard lessons, and unforgettable encounters with cultural icons—Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Who, James Taylor, Graham Nash, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Timothy Leary, Chevy Chase, and even Elvira.

It is such a delight…

—Graham Nash

Description

Turn on, tune in, and ride along in the front car of the rollercoaster life of Ted Myers, as he chases his dreams of rock stardom through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Although he never quite makes it, he has many wonderful-and not-so-wonderful-adventures and rubs shoulders with some of the true icons of folk, rock, and pop culture, including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, The Who, Procol Harum, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Chevy Chase, Timothy Leary and even Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Product Details

PublishedJanuary 2, 2023
ImprintCalumet Editions
LanguageEnglish
Print length328
ISBN-139781960250353
Dimensions6 x 0.73 x 9 inches

It is such a delight when someone opens a small window on what was going on in music back then… such an incredible time of creation… Ted Myers’ book on this ‘golden age’ of rock and roll music reveals just what it was like… enjoy, I did…

—Graham Nash, founding member of The Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash

No one else has told the story from the inside like Ted has. At this moment this is the only place to get some of how it really was. As his life goes on you get the LA part of his career that descends into drug use and dealing. With that came copious sex-capades. At 40 he straightens out and turns things around with a job at Rhino. He tells the tale better than most and it’s more interesting than most. It’s plain story telling with no literary pretentions.

—P. Lovell, verified review on Amazon

Unlike many rock & roll memoirs that seem scribbled by committee and edited by a PR team, this raw and candid roller coaster ride sometimes feels more like a personal diary narrative nobody was ever expected to find and read. The author, a Grammy nominee songwriter with a million selling #12 single under his belt, is an excellent memoirist whose honest prose gave me an enjoyable and very human look into the life of a rocker with a penchant for near misses in an industry where making music ‘…like all art, is a crap shoot.’

—Nick, verified review on Amazon