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In Search of Captain Beefheart Paperback – October 14, 2014

by Opher Goodwin (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
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The sixties raged. I was young, crazy, full of hormones and wanting to snatch life by the balls. There was a life out there for the grabbing and it had to be wrestled into submission. There was a society full of boring amoral crap and a life to be had in the face of the boring, comforting vision of slow death on offer. Rock music vented all that passion. This book is a memoir of a life spent immersed in Rock Music. I was born in 1949 and so lived through the whole gamut of Rock. Rock music formed the background to momentous world events – the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, Iraq war, Watergate, the miners’ strike and Thatcher years, CND, the Green Movement, Mao and the Cultural Revolution, Women’s Liberation and the Cold War. I see this as the Rock Era. I was immersed in Rock music. It was fused into my personality. It informed me, transformed me and inspired me. My heroes were musicians. I am who I am because of them. Without Rock Music I would not have the same sensibilities, optimism or ideals. They woke me up! This tells that story.
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    232 pages
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    English
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    October 14, 2014
  4. Dimensions
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  5. ISBN-10
    1502820455
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1502820457
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 14, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1502820455
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1502820457
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.49 x 9.02 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

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Opher Goodwin

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I was born in the summer of 1949, brought up in Surrey with its green fields and trees. It was a wonderful free playground for a child like me who loved nature.

The rich optimism of the sixties then fostered my love of Rock Music and Sci-fi.

I read avidly and devoured the works of Isaac Asimov, Clifford Simak, Robert Sheckley, Philip K Dick, Robert Heinlein, James White, Kurt Vonnegut Jnr, John Wyndham, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and later Iain M Banks and Douglas Adams. I started writing and never looked back.

I brought up my children in Yorkshire and enjoyed a career in education.

Nowadays I spend my time writing, reading, travelling the world, enjoying my family and attending concerts. It’s a hard life!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quite a ride!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2016
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We move from the rock of a 2004 White Stripes gig to the deep blues of Son House performing in 1968 in the very first paragraph, which gives some idea of the huge range of personal and musical experience covered in this always lively and thoroughly engaging personal testimony. We are taken on a freewheeling and cheerfully anarchic journey across time and space from the earliest days of rock'n'roll through the vibrant 60s and its many musical offshoots and current influences, with every anecdote giving ample evidence for the author's central idea - that music transforms and inspires like nothing else, forging an organic link with our own lives and even the politics and beliefs we live by. There are sharp, vivid, honest and cheerfully scatological portraits of his musical heroes with warm praise and candid criticism providing the salty ring of truth. The book has wry down-to-earth humour, a breakneck momentum, mostly good musical taste, fascinating gossip, strong opinions, passionate loves and equally passionate hates - and there's not a dull moment in it. Written with a warm and generous spirit, in the end it amounts to a radical critique of much more than music. It captures the modern zeitgeist with zest and courage. Recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars No Slipped Discs Here.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2015
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The title is a little misleading; as it is not a book about Beefheart , but rather an account of growing up through the 60s and 70s in Britain. For people like myself 60+ year's of age and like the author, a keen collector of records and tapes, this book will have a deep resonance. It was like living my early years of music all over again, as Mr. Goodwin kept mentioning the recording artists that I knew.
An enjoyable read, made for the coach, train, or 'plane trip.
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Peter
5.0 out of 5 stars Fast 'n' Bulbous!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2015
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If you grew up listening to music in the 60s then like me you will love this book, there were so many similarities between my musical awakening and the author's that it was uncanny, I was never as obsessive about collecting as he obviously was but I went to so many of the gigs that are listed in the book. The book took me back to the days of being a hippy when everything seemed possible and we thought we could change the world with music and love, sadly we were wrong but thankfully the music lives on and Opher captures the spirit of the age perfectly. I found myself longing to get my vinyl out and start playing my old Roy Harper and Incredible String band LPs. The book is well written and shows what a fascinating life Opher has led, for anyone who was there and has forgotten the details this book will delight you and for any serious students of how good music evolved then this book is a must.
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Stephen Ruscoe
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for the price
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2017
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A brief yet at times interesting journey through the counterculture and musical underground of the 1960s and 1970s, as seen through the eyes of an obsessive music collector. I found it a bit too opinionated. Roy Harper is almost canonized yet he looks down on many aspects of progressive rock and when did hippies ever embrace punk rock?
I also found it quite poorly written but fine if it is a bedtime read late at night.
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Christina
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 5, 2019
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What a great read , what a journey , If you like music you'll love this book . From the folk roots of London to the crossroads of Robert Johnson . From the delta of blues through to Greenwich village ! From the Height Ashbury hippy time to Hull ,Intreged you should by ! I couldn't put this book down it took me on a musical journey back in time from Blues Folk Rock and Punk and back again , Excellent ! Hats off to Opher . Dylan Thomas Jones .
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