Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles Flo and Eddie and Frank Zappa, etc.

by Howard Kaylan, Jeff Tamarkin (With), Penn Jillette (Foreword by)

Overview

Two full-color eight-page photo inserts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617808463
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Howard Kaylan (Seattle, WA) is the lead vocalist of '60s rock legends the Turtles, whose Top 10 hits include “Happy Together ” “Elenore ” “She'd Rather Be with Me ” and “You Showed Me.” He sang with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and was half of the popular duo Flo and Eddie. Kaylan's voice can also be heard on classic recordings by Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and many others., Jeff Tamarkin (Hoboken, NJ) has been a prolific music journalist for more than 35 years. He has served as the editor of Goldmine, Relix, and CMJ and has contributed to dozens of publications and websites, including MOJO, Playbill, JazzTimes, Creem, Billboard, and the All Music Guide. Tamarkin is the author of the biography Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Turtlefucking Mothers Penn Jillette vii

Acknowledgments xi

But First: A Rock Group Inside of Enemy Territory xiii

1 Howard Kaylan, with a Y 1

2 Music Juice and the Sounds of Pounds 5

3 Westward, Toward the Matterhorn! 11

4 Destiny Calls 19

5 The West Coast Ambassadors of Good-Time Music 33

6 How Is the Weather? 49

7 Beat the Beatles 57

8 We Rule This World! No One Can Touch Us! 63

9 Eht Seltrut 75

10 Punks Leaving a Trail of Destruction 85

11 Lucifer Laughs 93

12 Fuckin' Corporate Sellouts! 99

13 Put a Fork in Us 105

14 Around Here, We Have Rules 111

15 A Hint of Possible Ascension on the Hipness Scale 117

16 As Good as It Gets 123

17 A Car Shaped Like an Enormous Penis, Sounds Like Good, Clean Family Fun 129

18 Anybody Got Any Dope? 137

19 A Closely Guarded Secret 143

20 A Pony Harness Dipped in Enchilada Sauce 151

21 Smoke on the Water 159

22 Air Supply Is a Better Name Than the Phlorescent Leech and Eddie! 169

23 Perception Is Everything 179

24 Spinning in Some Hippie Delirium 183

25 Officially Bipolar 187

26 Lobster, Caviar, and Cocaine 195

27 Skating on Thin Ice 201

28 Moving Targets 207

29 Getting Spit On by the Boss Himself! 213

30 Singers Don't Get Desks 219

31 Hey Ma, Look-I'm a Performance Artist! 227

32 Who the Hell Are These Fat Guys, and Why Are They Here? 233

33 Turtles Once Again 241

34 Happy Together 253

Index 263