If you’re a baby boomer, you know how important the music was to your life. Even if you were too young to participate in peace marches or Woodstock, you heard the music and were part of the time. Songs bring back memories, and frequently you remember where you were when you first heard it.
Webster’s Fine Stationers, 2450 N. Lake Avenue, takes a look back on Friday, May 10, in conjunction with Fancy Food Truck Friday with author Elliot Michael Gold, starting at 5 PM..
“Nothing returns a memory as clearly as a song!” says Altadena writer Gold, who documented this in his book “Rememories – The Music and the Memories That Shaped Our Lives”, originally published in 2000.
Most locals know Gold as one of the drivers behind the Altadena Coalition of Neighborhood Associations, but he’s had a very interesting assortment of life experiences. Next Friday he will be at Webster’s Fine Stationers to not only sign his book and talk about some of his journey, but will play segments of taped interviews with luminaries of music in the rock ‘n roll era of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. Come hear the voices of music greats like Fabian, Grace Slick, Andrew Young, Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, among many other notables, and listen to the music that changed their (and our) lives!
Some of the interviews are funny, some are chilling, some are heartbreaking, but all of them remind the reader, and the listener, of how important music has been to our lives.
Hugo said…
Sounds groovy!
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 at 06:51 PM
Elliot Gold said…
Hugo- Ah, a hippie after my own heart!
Elliot
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 at 07:27 PM
Hugo said…
Elliot, I have not seen the book yet, but does it have some of your rock n’ roll photography?
Wednesday, May 01, 2013 at 08:36 PM
Elliot Gold said…
Hugo- Wish it did, but nope, interviews and great memories. Just pictures of the folks I interviewed
Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 08:37 AM
Hugo said…
Can you show some of your photographs at the book signing? Or is there a place we can view some of your rock n’ roll photography?
Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 03:42 PM
Elliot Gold said…
The book has canned pix of the folks I interviewed… wish I had photos of rock concerts and all that, but sorry, don’t have it.
That said- check in with me in about 6-12 months as …well as you might know, I was a photojournalist during the 60s and 70s and have 10s of thousands of pictures from all of the street scenes of the 1960s, antiwar, gay rights, Black Panthers, Angela Davis… and more… I’m working on a documentary using those pictures…. “film at 11″ as in 11 months
Elliot “Cameraman” Gold
Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 06:10 PM
Hugo said…
I got it…I will wait. I’m sure the blog will get an exclusive.
Thursday, May 02, 2013 at 07:09 PM