Eye Mind

The Saga of Roky Erickson and The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers of Psychedelic Sound

Paul Drummond
Foreword by Julian Cope

The trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators released the first “psychedelic” rock album in America, transforming culture throughout the 1960s and beyond. The Elevators followed their own spiritual cosmic agenda — to change society by finding a new path to enlightenment. Their battles with repressive authorities are legendary.

6 x 9 • 450 pages • 120 photographs • ISBN: 978-0-9760822-6-2 • $22.95

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Go Ask Ogre

Letters from a Deathrock Cutter

By Jolene Siana
FINALIST: Best Young Adult Non-fiction Book
2006 Independent Publishers Book Award

Teenage hell has never been captured with such intense honesty as these actual letters sent in the late ’80s from a desperate girl to the singer of her favorite band.

“Pure, Lucid and Engaging.”
— Los Angeles Times

7 x 10 in, 192 pages, ISBN 0-9760822-1-7, $18.95

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Guitar Army

Rock and Revolution with The MC5 and the White Panther Party

By John Sinclair
With introduction by Michael Simmons

Guitar Army is the incendiary book that proclaimed “Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution.” This 35th anniversary edition of Guitar Army includes two dozen previously unpublished period photographs, recent writings from John Sinclair, and an introduction from Michael Simmons. A bonus CD contains rare recordings of MC5 and other Detroit-area revolutionary bands, Allen Ginsberg, Black Panther Bobby Seale on the White Panthers, and original White Panther Party meetings.

6 x 9 in, 360 pages, CD attached, ISBN 978-1-934170-007, $22.95
Pub date: June 2007

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Moondog

The Viking of Sixth Avenue

The Authorized Biography by Robert Scotto
Preface by Philip Glass

*WINNER 2008 Independent Publishers Book Award* Here is one of the most improbable lives of the 20th century: a blind and homeless man who became a famous eccentric in New York, and who rose to prominence as an internationally respected music presence. Moondog’s compositional style inspired the work of his former roommate, Philip Glass, who provides the preface. BONUS CD includes compilation of Moondog records spanning five decades, containing a dozen previously unreleased Moondog recordings, including performances with Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Stefan Lakatos and Paul Jordan.

Available October 2007

6 x 9 • 320 pages • photographs • CD included • 978-0-9760822-8-6 • $24.95

Titles | Music | Moondog

The Source

The Untold Story of Father Yod, YaHoWha 13, and The Source Family

Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian
Introduction by Erik Davis

*WINNER 2008 Independent Publishers Book Award* *LA TIMES BESTSELLER!* It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Christie, Frank Zappa and others at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in a mansion in Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos through the channeled wisdom of their charismatic leader, Father Yod. Father was an outlandish figure who had 14 “spiritual wives,” drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted the rock band Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered by collectors to be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time.