Imagine a time capsule, sealed in 1974, full of exciting storytelling songs and rhymes composed at the height of the American social and musical revolution of that time -- not recordings, but lyrics and rhymes never before recorded for public release. Then, imagine the time capsule is deteriorating with most of its treasures still inside, and unless these works are retrieved and recorded quickly, they may soon be lost forever. Travis Edward Pike's Odd Tales and Wonders is equal parts memoir and collection of some of his most memorable works from 1964-1974. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1968, this multi-talented Bostonian won an INTERCOM award for Special Achievement - Writing at the 1999 Chicago Film Festival for his feature-length video performance of his original epic narrative rhyme, Grumpuss. At the 2006 U.S. International Film and Video Awards, as the co-writer, co-producer and editor, he took home Certificates for Creative Excellence for the feature documentary Volunteers for Verdi. If his career was a screenplay, this book would be its First Act and its publication would signal the beginning, in screenwriter's jargon, of its Third Act, when all the obstacles introduced in this First Act are overcome and the saga's many subplots are resolved. Music journalist Harvey Kubernik, author of A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop Festival and Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon writes in his Foreword to Odd Tales and Wonders, "Read his book and listen to the soundtrack from the First Act of the life now being revealed by this multi-talented Hollywood multi-hyphenate. Discover his music and poetry, once heard live by thousands, preserved in memory and notebooks, and finally, for the first time, arranged and recorded for this generation in Odd Tales and Wonders: Stories in Song and Odd Tales and Wonders: Stories in Rhyme." Includes the words to all the songs and rhymes in the collection.

Travis Edward Pike's Odd Tales and Wonders: 1964-1974 A Decade of Performance

Arts & Photography

Pike, Travis

Music

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Author and pop culture historian Harvey Kubernik’s multi-voice narrative and examination of the Beatles musical relationship to Hollywood and the songwriting legacy of Los Angeles. The finished book is more than a compilation of photos, graphics, interviews, and insights offered by more than 60 music industry notable, including members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it reveals the Beatles rarely chronicled-at-length history with Southern California and Hollywood.

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today THE BEATLES Invade America and Hollywood

Kubernik, Harvey

The Doors Summer’s Gone is a compilation of author Harvey Kubernik’s interviews with the members of the Doors; keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger conducted between 1974–2017, as well as Doors’ engineer/producer Bruce Botnick and Elektra Records’ founder Jac Holzman. Book includes Kubernik’s reviews of the band’s catalog product and stories, some published, some never in print or online, and reflections over five decades, from intimate Doors insiders; poets, writers, musicians, engineers, songwriters, authors, screenwriters, filmmakers, and photographers. The cover and text incorporate rare visuals and photographs supplied by Kubernik’s well-respected, music business contacts, and artifacts from the archives of Ida Miller. Kubernik witnessed a 1968 concert by the Doors, and has worked with band members, produced recordings by Manzarek, theater events with Densmore, and chronicled their legacy since 1974. His literary journey displays memories and reflections from others who shared the stage and retail record bins with the Doors over the last half century. Author of 14 books, Kubernik provided a multi-voice forum for Peter Lewis of Moby Grape, Alex Del Zoppo of Sweetwater, multi-instrumentalist Chris Darrow, Carlos Santana, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, and Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, Burton Cummings, and Steven Van Zandt. Chapters devoted to deejays Dave Diamond, Rodney Bingenheimer and Rick Williams; photographers Guy Webster, Henry Diltz, Heather Harris, Kurt Ingham, Tom Gundelfinger O’Neil, and Helie Robertson; filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker, Murray Lerner and Randall Jahnson; authors Tosh Berman, Gene Aguilera, Eddi Fiegel, Ram Dass, Daniel Weizmann, Sandy Robertson, David Dalton, and Jan Henderson; actors Jack Larson, Seymour Cassell, and Bill Mumy; poets Stephen J. Kalinich, James Cushing and Celeste Goyer; record producers Kim Fowley, Mark Guerrero and Greg Franco; writers Gary Pig Gold, David N. Pepperell, Michael Macdonald; journalist Kirk Silsbee; graphic artist Denis Loren, 1970 head of Door’s security Tony Funches, and writer Anne Moore, a Jim Morrison confident. Additional recollections from poets, deejays, musicians, poster artists and witnesses to the 1965-1971 world of the Doors are also documented.

The Doors Summer's Gone

Kubernik, Mr Harvey

Changelings were believed to be troll or fairy children left in place of stolen human babies. Morgen, an adopted foundling reared in Boston, Massachusetts, now in his mid-twenties, is the charismatic lead-singer and songwriter for Beantown Home Cookin, ' a showband featuring the Trashbabies, a troupe of singer-dancers who contribute mightily to the band's growing popularity. After a sensational live BBC broadcast of their May Eve concert, Morgen skips its wrap party to test drive a rented sports car. A squall causes him to skid into a ditch and daybreak finds him seeking help in Morningstone, an isolated village where it seems the storm wiped out communication with the outside world. In the village pub, Morgen overhears one girl argue that Fates, Muses and Furies represent the denigration of the Mother Goddess, reducing her to a bevy of bickering departmental nymphs. Another suggests fragmentation of the goddess is a device of exposition, used to reveal a crisis dramatically through confrontation between various aspects of her character.According to Fiona, the wise lady at the cottage, song and chant used to mean the same thing, and Morgen, an increasingly popular singer and songwriter, is an enchanter by definition. His songs are spells that once heard, will return, going 'round and 'round in one's head, even when there's no music to hear. B y now, music and story, Changeling's Return has crossed into a supernatural realm where, within the Tomb of Every Hope, Morgen represents humanity, on trial for crimes against Nature. The Furies seek his death. Instead, he receives a sip from the Cauldron of Inspiration, becoming The Fool, "Truth, Reason, and Magic, Harmony of the Carnal and the Mystical-Man." Is Morgen human, recognizing humanity's dependence and obligation to nature for its survival, or a changeling reared by humans, reawakening to his supernatural origins, and if the latter, what impact will Changeling's Return have on the human race? As the Trashbabies sing in their exit song, "Dog, Roebuck, and Lapwing, your nonsense song makes my ears ring. Between the lines I hear you sing."

Changeling's Return: a novel approach to the music

Literature & Fiction

Pike, Travis Edward

Kubernik, Harvey R.

Genre Fiction

In 1879, Irish-born, wandering rogues, Sean Mulcahy and Michael Lonergan, arrive in Monterey, California, where their past catches up with them and threatens their futures. They are two of the last surviving members of the St. Patrick's Battalion, or San Patricios, an artillery unit in the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War, made up of Irishmen driven to desertion from the American Army. After the war, the pair wander the American West, surviving saloon brawls and shootouts with bandits, until they come across an eight year old Chinese girl, left alone on a sand dune beside the bodies of a Chinese family, brutally murdered. They take the little girl to the city marshal of Monterey, who turns out to be an old comrade from the Mexican Army, Roberto Fuentes. He leaves the girl, Shushu, with the Lau family, who run a general store in the Chinese district. Roberto then introduces Sean and Michael to Monterey County Sheriff Fred Lang, State Senator Walter Maguire, and Walter's sister, Olivia Connolly, who is president of a bank. Sean takes Olivia to dinner, where they clearly enjoy each other's company. Later, Olivia learns her son, George, and his two friends had killed the Chinese family on the beach. Sean romances Olivia and strikes up a friendship with the Monterey parish priest, a Breton Franciscan friar, Father Lucien, while Michael begins to spend time with the Fuentes' Chinese housekeeper, Ying. Shushu is treated cruelly by the Laus and runs away. Michael adopts Shushu, which becomes a topic of gossip in the town. George and his two friends grow concerned that Shushu might have seen them kill the Chinese family on the beach. While Olivia tries to talk Sean into helping her protect her son, the three young men confront Michael, forcing him to flee, along with Ying, and Shushu, and hold up in the ruins of the Carmel Mission, where they are joined by Sean for a climactic shootout with a posse, led by Sheriff Lang and Senator Maguire.

Last of the San Patricios

Hagerty, Mr Terry

Chiefly a compilation of more than 45 years of Interviews by Harvey Kubernik with musicians, filmmakers, and others in fields related to making rock, pop, soul, and blues full -length documentaries, of outdoor festivals, events and movie soundtracks, generously illustrated with photos, artifacts, graphics and memorabilia.

DOCS THAT ROCK, MUSIC THAT MATTERS

Humor & Entertainment

Leaf, David

Kubernik, Harvey Robert

Movies

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