{"product_id":"california-slim-the-music-the-magic-and-the-madness-9781525539398","title":"California Slim: The Music, The Magic and The Madness","description":"There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors'\u003cbr\u003eproximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein's California Slim aspires\u003cbr\u003eto far more than that-and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the post-'50s\u003cbr\u003erevolution that, as a beat poet once put it, roared as it ripped the threadbare fabric\u003cbr\u003eof an age. Andy was no distant, casual observer during the tumultuous '60s and\u003cbr\u003e'70s; he was at the heart of the maelstrom, and writes about it with candor, humor, \u003cbr\u003eand originality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story begins, for God's sake, with Andy and his then unknown banjo teacher, \u003cbr\u003ea young Jerry Garcia, fingerpicking in a back room at Dana Morgan's Music Studio\u003cbr\u003ein Palo Alto in 1962. A skinny six-foot-seven-inch Jewish kid (later known as \"California\u003cbr\u003eSlim\"), Andy divided his time between the usual adolescent interests and\u003cbr\u003emusic, for which he would go on to provide a capital M by promoting and staging\u003cbr\u003econcerts throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His Palo Alto nightclub, Homer's\u003cbr\u003eWarehouse, across the street from the Stanford University campus, brought revolutionary\u003cbr\u003emusicians (among them, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) to young\u003cbr\u003esensibilities hungry for new driving rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe early chapters of this book set the stage for Andy's eventual hooking-up with\u003cbr\u003eWillie Nelson and his Family-which felt, Andy said, \"like reading a really good\u003cbr\u003ebook that I couldn't put down.\" That feeling led directly, if gradually, to California\u003cbr\u003eSlim. And you, dear reader, won't be able to put it down, either.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Tony Compagno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernstein, Andrew J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Andrew J. Bernstein was born in San Francisco and then raised in Palo Alto from the age of three. As a college student, he studied English and Multimedia, but his heart was really in music, social causes, and all the opportunities afforded by the San Francisco Music and Cultural Revolution. They say that if you remember the '60s, you weren't there! Thank god, Bernstein took notes....","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50468139401490,"sku":"9781525539398","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2e4f4452-cb5c-4e7f-b616-52ceacdff698.jpg?v=1730135172","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/california-slim-the-music-the-magic-and-the-madness-9781525539398","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}