Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chet Helms, Ben Going, Lisa Ling, Carl Greenberg, Jeff Blue, Michele Ruiz, Mig Greengard, Elita Loresca, Joan Graves. Excerpt: Chester Leo "Chet" Helms (August 2, 1942 June 25, 2005), often called the father of San Francisco's "1967 Summer of Love", was a music promoter and a cultural figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the late Sixties. Helms was the founder and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company and recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer. He was a producer and organizer, helping to stage free concerts and other cultural events at Golden Gate Park, the backdrop of San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967, as well as at other venues, including the Avalon Ballroom. He was the first producer of psychedelic light-show concerts at the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom and was instrumental in helping to develop bands that had the distinctive San Francisco sound. Helms died June 25, 2005 from complications of hepatitis C. He was 62. Chester Leo Helms was born in Santa Maria, California, the eldest of three sons. His parents were Chester and Novella Helms. Helms' father, a manager at a local sugarbeet mill, died when he was 9. His mother took the boys to Missouri and then to Texas. Helms spent the rest of his youth in Missouri and Texas, where he learned to organize events by helping to stage benefits for civil rights groups. He enrolled at the University of Texas and became part of the music scene there, a scene that included a very young and inexperienced Janis Joplin. Soon he dropped out of school and, inspired by the beat generation writers, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to travel across America in search of freedom and inspiration, he set off wearing shoulder-length hair, beard and rimless glasses hitchhiking across the country. He ended up in San Fra...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with California Media People: Chet Helms, Ben Going, Lisa Ling, Carl Greenberg, Jeff Blue, Michele Ruiz, Mig Greengard, Elita Loresca. To get started finding California Media People: Chet Helms, Ben Going, Lisa Ling, Carl Greenberg, Jeff Blue, Michele Ruiz, Mig Greengard, Elita Loresca, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2011
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1156766958
California Media People: Chet Helms, Ben Going, Lisa Ling, Carl Greenberg, Jeff Blue, Michele Ruiz, Mig Greengard, Elita Loresca
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chet Helms, Ben Going, Lisa Ling, Carl Greenberg, Jeff Blue, Michele Ruiz, Mig Greengard, Elita Loresca, Joan Graves. Excerpt: Chester Leo "Chet" Helms (August 2, 1942 June 25, 2005), often called the father of San Francisco's "1967 Summer of Love", was a music promoter and a cultural figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the late Sixties. Helms was the founder and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company and recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer. He was a producer and organizer, helping to stage free concerts and other cultural events at Golden Gate Park, the backdrop of San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967, as well as at other venues, including the Avalon Ballroom. He was the first producer of psychedelic light-show concerts at the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom and was instrumental in helping to develop bands that had the distinctive San Francisco sound. Helms died June 25, 2005 from complications of hepatitis C. He was 62. Chester Leo Helms was born in Santa Maria, California, the eldest of three sons. His parents were Chester and Novella Helms. Helms' father, a manager at a local sugarbeet mill, died when he was 9. His mother took the boys to Missouri and then to Texas. Helms spent the rest of his youth in Missouri and Texas, where he learned to organize events by helping to stage benefits for civil rights groups. He enrolled at the University of Texas and became part of the music scene there, a scene that included a very young and inexperienced Janis Joplin. Soon he dropped out of school and, inspired by the beat generation writers, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to travel across America in search of freedom and inspiration, he set off wearing shoulder-length hair, beard and rimless glasses hitchhiking across the country. He ended up in San Fra...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with California Media People: Chet Helms, Ben Going, Lisa Ling, Carl Greenberg, Jeff Blue, Michele Ruiz, Mig Greengard, Elita Loresca. To get started finding California Media People: Chet Helms, Ben Going, Lisa Ling, Carl Greenberg, Jeff Blue, Michele Ruiz, Mig Greengard, Elita Loresca, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.