Travis Edward Pike

This is the 19th book from author and popular music historian Harvey Kubernik. His comprehensive compilation of interviews and conversations with rock, blues, folk, soul, reggae musicians, singers, songwriters, and recording engineers, photographers, cinematographers, documentary movie makers and distributors whose creative works matter, and who share their insider stories, techniques and inspiration with readers and viewers. This is the definitive volume for fans, collectors, music and film students to cherish and share anyone who follows rock 'n' roll facts and stax of wax from the fifties into our current century. For the ever-growing audience of people who love to see and hear their favorite stars performing live in arenas, concert halls, outdoor concert venues, and now on screen in theaters, on TV and in productions and formats designed for home entertainment, here is the real-to-reel backstory behind many of the music DVD's and movies you have on your shelves and in rotation on your home library. This book includes dialogues with acclaimed Oscar winners D. A. Pennebaker, Murray Lerner, Albert Maysles, Morgan Neville, John Ridley, and Curtis Hanson alongside commentary about noted directors Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Allan Arkush, Colin Hanks, Quentin Tarentino and Martin Scorsese. You'll also learn about filmmakers and screenwriters David Leaf, Leslie Ann Coles, and Travis Edward Pike, plus the often-overlooked rock 'n' roll contributions of native Americans. You'll be reminded again of the pioneering television efforts of Ed Sullivan and Dick Clark with photography displayed in the pages by Henry Diltz and Heather Harris. This 508 page book, illustrated with a total of 220 photos, documents and artifacts, is mandatory for anyone who loves music and available screen productions with the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Doors, Otis Redding, Bob Marley, the music of Motown, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Brian Wilson, James Brown, the Bee Gees, John Lennon, the Supremes, Ike and Tina Turner, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Band, Paul Butterfield, and the sounds of Laurel Canyon, including the Mamas and the Papas, the Byrds, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and the famed studio recording musicians, the Wrecking Crew. Harvey examines seminal music television shows and the ongoing influence and impact of "American Bandstand," " Shindig " " Shebang " and "Upbeat." There's even a whole chapter on the sacred music George Harrison and Ravi Shankar presented in their Concert for Bangladesh charity event that will celebrate a 50th anniversary in 2021.This is the one you've been waiting for Harvey Kubernik is your tour guide on this journey through the past that you can still see, hear and own in 2020.

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."

Travis Edward Pike's "1964-1974: A Decade of Odd Tales and Wonders," a memoir of his early career as a singer-songwriter, features more than 170 photos and artifacts, and complete lyrics and rhymes from the CDs shown on its front cover. In it, Pike discusses writing the title song for 1964's "Demo Derby," his father's 28 minute action featurette that played on thousands of screens across the USA with the Beatles "Hard Day's Night," at the onset of the mid-1960s British music invasion. He also addresses starring in Pike Productions' 1966 Boston-based feature film "Feelin' Good," the ten songs he wrote for it, and the eight he performed on screen in that movie. The Montclairs, a racially mixed group, winners of the First Massachusetts Jaycees Battle of the Bands, performed Pike's title song on screen, but we learn that an innocuous scene of the Montclairs sharing a pizza during that volatile period of civil rights activism, restricted the film's bookings in Southern theaters. Pike also recounts how following the January 1968, Tet Offensive, even after CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite spoke out against continued American involvement in Vietnam, its escalation continued, and the number of American draftees rose, inspiring Pike, a Navy veteran, to compose his only anti-war song, "Don't You Care at All?" As Pike writes, "People, whether engaged or detached from the events that shape their world, are nevertheless compelled to experience the effects of their nation's histories, economically, politically, psychologically, and spiritually, and the ramifications of events in 1968 still shape our lives." In 1973, Pike's music underscored the Golden Globe Awards nomination for Best Documentary Film, "The Second Gun," about the 1968 assassination of Democratic Presidential Candidate, Robert Kennedy. Pike posted music sequences from that 1966 movie "Feelin' Good" on Youtube in 2016. The "Watch Out Woman" and "Way That I Need You" video clips led to a 45 rpm soundtrack recording released by State Records (U.K.), and subsequently rated number three in Shindig magazine's Best of 2017 December issue. A native of Boston, Pike's original songs, performed live in coffeehouses, clubs, and concert halls across New England, Northern Germany, and Southern California are now available on CDs. Harvey Kubernik, author of 14 music-related books including this year's "The Doors Summer's Gone," published by Otherworld Cottage Industries, wrote the Afterword to Pike's memoir, revealing the current impact of Pike's early works.