This is a true adventure story. In 1967  Les Braunstein, a New York rock singer leaves his band, the Soft White Underbelly, (the baby Blue OysterCult) travels around the world, buys a horse  in Afghanistan, and rides alone through the bandit controlled Khyber Pass. Plus many more sixties hijinks.  The Lucky Monkey stories is a three part memoir beginning with this one, number three, A Lucky Monkey on the Hashish Trail which takes us from Istanbul to Ceylon in 1970 passing through lands, and a moment in history that are truly gone. An excerpt from this volume can be found on-line, on Worldhum.com, aTravel Channel site as "American fool in the Khyber Pass".  Check it out.  If you don't like that DON'T BUY THIS BOOK, it's more of the same. "That was a most wonderfully exciting read, like a vignette out of another dimension. Can't wait for the full escapades to unfold in the book." --Bolle Gregmar - Archivist of the Blue Oyster Cult.

A Lucky Monkey on the Hashish Trail (the Lucky Monkey Stories)

Travel

Braunstein, Les

Specialty Travel

Wise Media Group

The Soft White Underbelly was the origin band of Blue Oyster Cult. This book includes the full story of why their lead singer would walk away from a big record contract and one of the greatest bands in American Rock. Was it a matter of principle or just 60s idiocy?
The '60s era takes a starring role in this story, as well as the great change tha has overwhelmed humanity as we whirl into the new millennium.
This is the first book in a three-part memoir of lead singer, Les Braunstein. Part 1: A Lucky Monkey and the Soft White Underbelly, Part 2: A Lucky Monkey Wanders America and Europe (coming soon), Part 3: A Lucky Monkey on the Hashish Trail (available now).
Although there's no going back to those times and some of the places encountered during these travels, reading these tales will feel pretty close. Come on in.

A Lucky Monkey and the Soft White Underbelly (The Lucky Monkey Stories)

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