Mick Farren

Dennis Loren

Rock on, with more than 500 classic music posters—many unseen for years! Organized chronologically from the 1950s to the present, this gallery of images from the very best illustrators in the genre captures the interplay of music and art, revealing how both evolved over the years. From gritty bar bands to the superstars, from the Fillmore to CBGBs, this is a remarkable visual journey. Includes interviews with key artists such as Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley of Family Dog; Michael English and Nigel Waymouth of Hapshash and the Coloured Coat; Roger Dean; Dave Little; and Emek. The posters capture the most famous names in music, from R&B to classic rock, metal, punk and rap, including: Muddy Waters, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, James Brown, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, Bowie, the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and more—plus cult favorites.. Features on significant music promoters and venues, including Chet Helms, Bill Graham, and CBGBs. Showcases a diverse range of design styles, from letterpress and DIY punk to the rise of computer graphics and the retro illustrations of the modern era.

Sixty Years of Posters and Flyers: 1952 to Today

Classic Rock Posters

Whizz, gooey, pink champagne, base: the recreational and pharmacological use of 'Speed', from Amphetamine Sulphate to Crystal Meth is a cultural habit which has existed since the early 1900s. Although considered a cheap and somewhat filthy habit, amphetamines have tempted an array of celebrities, including Elvis Presley, Truman Capote, The Beatles, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Cash, JFK and Adolf Hitler: All were at some point - to be blunt - speedfreaks. Speed-Speed-Speedfreak traces the cultural and criminal use of amphetamine and its unholy growth.

A Fast History of Amphetamine

Speed-speed-speedfreak

The paranormal branch of the National Security Agency enlists the aid of Victor Renquist to seek out survivors of Hitler's Third Reich, who have set up a secret base in Antarctica with their allies, the Dhrakuh, an ancient race of sentient reptiles.

Underland

The Black Leather Jacket

Suzy Shaw

From 1966 to 1978, "Bomp!" was the magazine of rock-and-roll commentary and criticism that provided a view from the garage of the most crucial era in rock history. This retrospective is composed of rare gems from the magazine, including early interviews with The Doors and The Grateful Dead.

Saving the World One Record at a Time

Bomp!

Eric Beetner

Christopher Grant

Chad Eagleton

Matthew Funk

Pile your hair high, shine your leather jacket, pop the switchblade, and turn on the devil's music! Get ready to roar down the desolate American highway with eight tales of hoods, hot rods, and hellcats! "The 1950s are recreated one more time, but here it's with a savage, razor-honed edge you'll never find in Grease, Happy Days, or American Graffiti," from the introduction by the legendary Mick Farren. Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats features brand new fiction from Eric Beetner, Chad Eagleton, Christopher Grant, Matthew Funk, David James Keaton, Nik Korpon, Heath Lowrance, and Thomas Pluck.

Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats

An A to Z compendium of worldwide conspiracy theories covers alien abduction, the New World Order, computer terrorism, five-legged frogs, and global warming

Conspiracies, Lies, and Hidden Agendas

Synaptic Manhunt

Television journalist Lech Hammond flies out to Mars to investigate rumors of a Soviet discovery of an alien artifact, but discovers that the Mars-based KGB is not talking.

Mars, the Red Planet

The paranormal branch of the National Security Agency enlists the aid of Victor Requist, master of the Nosferatu colony, along with NSA operative Jack Coulson, and Thyme Bridewell, a failed NSA brain-control experiment, to seek out survivors of Hitler's Third Reich, who have set up a secret base in Antarctica with the their allies, the Dhrakuh, an ancient race of sentient reptiles. Reprint.

"Written practically non-stop in 1975 and 1976, The DNA Cowboys Trilogy offers fantastic adventures into the unknown and unexpected. With influences that range from Star Trek to Kung Fu and from the Marquis de Sade to Sam Peckinpah, Farren has created a bizarre universe populated with pre-teen dictators, huge twin-brained domestic lizards and growing biocomputers tended by martial arts-practising monks. Farren let his imagination run wild and the results are awesome. Expect fanciful weapons, medieval jails, public hangings, Albert Speer architecture, gunfights, stiletto heels and femmes fatales in tight clothing, orgies, orgasms, and undefined monsters called Disruptors that suck up all life and logic."--BOOK JACKET. Book jacket.

The DNA Cowboys Trilogy

Victor Renquist, centuries-old nosferatu leader, is called to England. Some archaeologists are excavating a burial mound, but what they will uncover is no Saxon warrior but the being once known as the Merlin. And he's not the kindly old duffer of The Sword in the Stone. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

More Than Mortal

Victor Renquist, centuries-old nosferatu leader, is called to England. Some archaeologists are excavating a burial mound, but what they will uncover is no Saxon warrior but the being once known as the Merlin. And he's not the kindly old duffer of The Sword in the Stone.

You cannot believe a word Mick Farren tells you!” John Lydon A literary life railing against the machine, in the company of Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, Chuck Berry and more. Mick Farren has spent more than 4 decades in the thick of the culture wars as a commentator, activist, essayist, poet, performer, and rebel with multiple causes. A founding figure of the 60s underground press, he careered on through the London birth pangs of punk, the intoxicated madness of Lower Manhattan under Ronald Reagan, earthquakes and urban insurrection in LA. Here you'll meet Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry and Gore Vidal, and steam open correspondence between the author and Pete Townshend.

A Lifetime's Collected Writing

Elvis Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine

Phaid plays a deadly game of survival in a future, violent, post-holocaust Earth in which the human race has mutated into three distinct life forms and the planet is threatened by telepathic dogs and cats, reactionary androids, and savage climatic changes

Phaid the Gambler

Primitive men kidnapped from earth to fight as soldiers for an alien race known as the Therem, decide to rebel against their masters and strike out on their own

Their Master's War

Ever since a leather-jacketed Marlon Brando slouched across the screen in The Wild One, the jacket’s mixture of animal magnetism, brooding menace, and sexual provocation has made it a must-have for hipsters, rebels, and fashionistas. This entertaining book chronicles the leather jacket from its roots among World War I flying aces to its present incarnation in high fashion. Along the way, it shows how every generation and subculture -- including the Hell’s Angels, beats, punks, movie stars, counterculturists, and fetishists -- has made the leather jacket its own.

Victor Renquist, centuries-old master of a small colony of Nosferatu, has been "recruited"-forcibly-by an undercover branch of the National Security Agency, Paranormal Operations and Research. They need his help. It seems that certain members of Hitler's Third Reich escaped to a secret world below Antarctica, taking with them some very advanced technology. Human teams have failed to infiltrate the base, and Renquist is the NSA's last chance. The team is small: Renquist; his right-hand man, Lupo; an extremely unorthodox hardline NSA operative named Jack Coulson; and Thyme Bridewell, a failed NSA brain-control experiment originally intended as Renquist's lunch. What they find in Underland taxes even Renquist's supernormal powers. The quondam Nazis have some very powerful allies -- the Dhrakuh, a race of sentient reptiles from the dawn of time. Their goal is nothing less than the conquest of the entire world. To make matters worse, Renquist is hampered by some throwbacks from his own race and by the unexpected arrival of one of his own colony members, Julia, together with Philipa, a darklost whom Julia has led through the Change into Nosferatu. The future of civilization hangs in the balance. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife" is just that: the story of Morrison, the dark yet nave Lizard King, as he hurtles through a purgatory-like afterlife in search of some way to bring his soul to peace.

Mick Farren

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