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White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s (original 2006; edition 2010)

by Joe Boyd

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When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the Summer of Love got going, Boyd was running the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Boyd. More than any previous sixties music autobiography, Boyd's offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. As well as the sixties heavy-hitters, this book also offers vivid portraits of a host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Fairport Convention.--From publisher description.… (more)
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Title:White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Authors:Joe Boyd
Info:Serpent's Tail (2010), Paperback, 288 pages
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As a teenager in Princeton, New Jersey, Joe Boyd started booking blues acts that he and his friends loved. After Harvard he became a tour manager and experienced the Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan went electric. He went to London, opened the UFO club, produced Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention and The Incredible String Band.

Boyd’s love of music comes through here. He acknowledges his mistakes, mourns those fallen to drugs and misadventure, and celebrates good music and good friends made. Nick Drake's rise and fall is perhaps the most poignant story here. ( )
  Hagelstein | Jul 14, 2021 |
I thought this was ok but suffered in comparison to some other music memoirs I have read recently. I just don't think Boyd is that good a writer so as interesting as I found it, I never felt transported or like I was right there with him. And it didn't really enrich the experience of listening to the music. And where was any mention of Shirley Collins? Dude, come on.

He produced some of my very favorite records though and for that, I am grateful.

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  laurenbufferd | Nov 14, 2016 |
Being the memoirs of the noted record producer who worked with a number of the great and good, mostly folk-oriented and mostly in the 1960's and '70's. It has some pretty good stories and he isn't afraid to offer informed opinion. ( )
  Big_Bang_Gorilla | Apr 17, 2011 |
Joe Boyd was an American who became a big figure on the late-60s London music scene. Boyd was the man behind Hannibal Records, and was one of the movers & shakers during the early days of Island Records (he produced Fairport Convention, Incredible String Band, Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, Maria Muldaur & more). I've only read a few dozen pages so far, but looks to be an interesting one-man's-view of the folk-rock movement on both sides of the Atlantic.
  ehines | Nov 21, 2010 |
After having read only the opening chapters I am so excited to find a book that UNDERSTANDS what lay behind the so-called sixties music phenomenon: the discovery of what black music had to say about the way we felt about living in a world ruled by the pathologically normal. And why we wanted to reclaim and transform that message. ( )
  ChrisWildman | Apr 20, 2010 |
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When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the Summer of Love got going, Boyd was running the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Boyd. More than any previous sixties music autobiography, Boyd's offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. As well as the sixties heavy-hitters, this book also offers vivid portraits of a host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Fairport Convention.--From publisher description.

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