Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Shell Shocked My Life with Flo & Eddie and Etc. by HOWARD KAYLAN SHELL SHOCKED PDF. Howard Kaylan’s “Shell Shocked”. likes. Howard Kaylan’s life has been a dangerous ride that he is only too happy to report on shocking tales of. Howard Kaylan recalls his days as part of a hit-making band, a friend to a musical giant, and his tenacious grasp on his dream. —And Gives The Final Word On Six Legendary Rock ‘N Roll Myths! Words and Photos By Anne M. Raso. Howard Kaylan’s autobiography Shell Shocked. Author: Goktilar Nimi Country: New Zealand Language: English (Spanish) Genre: Career Published (Last): 16 October 2018 Pages: 443 PDF File Size: 14.82 Mb ePub File Size: 2.36 Mb ISBN: 961-6-34365-374-7 Downloads: 79134 Price: Free* [ *Free Regsitration Required ] Uploader: Jugar. He stopped—as far as I know, he stopped when the show moved to California. Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, Etc. by Howard Kaylan. I went looking for things like photos from our tour bus. That had bizarre and long lasting implications. The 80 Best Books of His commentary while describing it is evidence, thank God, that he, unlike most of the biographies of 60s artists I’ve read, has grown up enough to realize just how badly he screwed things up for himself and his loved ones over the course of a few decades. Shockev clowns are still out on the road trying to replace him with lead singers of all different races and religions and stuff…trying to find the guy to be the next Jim. Being a pretty big fan of the Turtles’ music, I was really amped up to read this when it finally became available on Scribd. Apr 21, Steven Pofcher rated it it was amazing. K I read many rock biographies shockked this is one of the best. You can help me put this book together and help me stay on course. Lists with This Book. CRR Interview – Howard Kaylan: A Turtle Comes Out Of His Shell. Kaylan’s account also reminded me of their Flo and Eddie’s variegated production work in the ’70s including the debut album from DMZ and singles from Starry Eyed and Laughing that more than endure here in Century It feels like a back stage pass to this rock star’s life. It was pretty quickly when it finally came together. I liked to stay under the radar there. I listened to it so much I knew every note and I ahocked quote by heart the liner notes that said: I owe a lot of my tastes to Rodney. It would be very familial, more brotherly than paternal. Shell Shocked. Jeff came along at the right time and the right place and agreed. Your book also tells us about the Turtles first visit to England. A bunch of the fun is his incessant name dropping — and what names they are. You are not outside the circle at all. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk is shcked near-perfect success both as a grand statement of solidarity and as a gorgeously wrought, long-overdue story of black life and black love. Making sure the audience is happy and entertained by the time you leave. Only eight or nine short years later, those two fat front men in the Kaylam were cashing in by doing the very same thing. To make their music shine for a minute while the bright stars were already living there. He was a wonderful man. Lot’s of details on the early years, but not a particularly complete memoir. Chapter titles and index: Of course they could have managed their money a little better. If you did him a solid, he would remember you for the rest of his life, and he would owe you and he would keep paying you back. How could that be? Howard Kaylan’s ‘Shell Shocked’ Makes Readers, Turtles and Zappa Lovers Laugh. He was singing about growing up. I know a couple of dozen of his albums have just been reissued. Your life and recording world of Flo and Eddie are also written about in Shell Shocked. Exposing me to glitter music. My view of showbiz and art came together. You live in Seattle, Washington, where marijuana is legal. Losses, Journeys, and Ascensions: Time heals all wounds or something. When we were on his label, briefly in the sixties we had no contact with him. The best of the anecdotes reveal a huge amount about the musicians Kaylan has known which seems to include almost every major figure from the 60s and 70s. If you have not picked up Shell Shocked yetyou are in for the best rock and roll tales of your life. I have two shots in there of Frank on the bus in Europe with women since I talk about it in my book. If you can hear me, it works. Not nearly as much of a downer as a lot of the other rock autobiographies I have read. Kalan’s and Volman’s camaraderie and partying with rock royalty was parlayed into longevity and pioneering roles. There were no other choices in a stack of acetates with that one on the top. Born in New York City as Howard Kaplan, the veteran vocalist boward that early on he realized he was truly a Kaylan——whatever, even he notes, that meant. There were nine pages of just bullet points. In Kubernik first encountered nearby Westchester resident Kaylan in Culver City, California inside the long forgotten Airport Village fast food eatery in the cent tacos line. Now look at me. So, we are changing things as they go on in progress. Howard Kaylan’s candid look at his life is an entertaining read. Hey, Sinatra loved them. Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, Etc. If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit "Happy Together", his place in rock-and-roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over five million radio plays, is only the tip of a rather eye-opening iceberg. For nearly five decades, Howard Kaylan has been a player in the rock-and-roll revolution - in addition to his years with the Turtles, Kaylan was a core member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention at their peak - a wild and dangerous ride that he is only too happy to report on, naming names and shedding shocking tales of sex, drugs, and creative excess, before he finds himself a part of glam rock history with Marc Bolan and T. Rex, and giving street cred and harmonies to everyone from John Lennon, , and Alice Cooper to the Ramones, and Duran Duran, to name just a few. Among rock memoirs, "Shell Shocked" will stand alone as not only one of the best told, but one with a truly candid and unmatchable story of rock-and-roll insanity and success from a man who glories in it all. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. HOWARD KAYLAN is the lead vocalist of '60s rock legends the Turtles, whose Top 10 hits include Happy Together, , She'd Rather Be With Me, and . He sang with Frank Zappa and 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 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 . Happy endings. My Life with the Turtles, Flo & Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc . . . by Howard Kaylan with. Jeff Tamarkin. “Come on, John. Leave the candles alone. You’re gonna start a bloody fire in here.” “I can’t see anything down here, Paul. It’s as dark as a hooker’s heart.” Shortly before the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s” solidified the Beatles’ position as the most admired band on the planet, that was McCartney and Lennon at a London club called the Speakeasy in 1967, with John “under the table taking Polaroid pictures up the skirts of his female companions, while Paul lent a hand.” The fly on the wall for this perverted piece of rock history was Howard Kaylan, singer (along with musical partner ) for the Turtles, whose biggest hit was that year’s “Happy Together.” Kaylan, a proud pothead who took full advantage of the sex-and-drugs ’60s, was a much sought-after singer who befriended, got wasted and shared women with the musical gods of the era, recalling however much of that time he can in this breezy tell-all. Lennon’s leering occurred just hours after the Turtles landed in London and friend Graham Nash whisked them off to meet the Fab Four. When Kaylan first saw them, McCartney was joining his writing partner under the table to “illuminate the proceedings with a disposable lighter” as his girlfriend, Jane Asher, stormed out in disgust. When Nash made introductions, both Lennon and McCartney complimented Kaylan, and they all performed an impromptu a cappella rendition of “Happy Together.” But Lennon soon turned dark, telling Kaylan his record was “sappy” and sounded “a bit light in the loafers.” When a distressed Kaylan protested, “We’re just trying to be the American version of you!” Lennon laid into him, sarcastically noting, “That’s not bloody likely, is it?” Then Lennon, looking over the band like a hunter picking his next kill, settled on their rhythm guitarist, Jim Tucker, who was unfortunately adorned in a scruffy brown suit. “Bad suit, son. And an even worse haircut,” Lennon said. “Did you tell your barber to give you a Beatle cut? It’s awful, man. You give rhythm players a bad name.” Tucker was crushed, awkwardly replying, “You’re like a god to me, man. You guys changed my life.” But Lennon continued on, calling Tucker “stupid” and worse. The dejected guitarist finally told the Beatle he was an a – – hole and stormed out. Following their few British shows, Tucker quit the band and “never played music again.” More enjoyable for Kaylan was his time singing for Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. In the book, he recalls one night after a 1971 show in Berkeley when “a call came in: orgy in Frank’s room!” When the singer got there, he found two stewardesses naked, “each on one of two double beds,” surrounded by the entire band, the crew, and a groupie he says Zappa spent several years with. It quickly became a sexual free-for-all where “the stewardesses were more than courteous and accommodated three or four guys at a time.” Kaylan called the night “great fun” and a bonding experience for the band. “It felt like we were a club now,” he writes. “We had, for better or worse, a shared secret, and nothing brings a band closer than a shared secret. Ask Fleetwood Mac.” The book is filled with such tales of misbehavior and decadence, including how Ike Turner kept a “giant Fabergé egg” on his mixing console “filled to the tip with cocaine,” and how singer Tom Jones, whom the Turtles toured with, taunted the “screaming teenage girls” who surrounded their bus. “He pulled out his legendary-for-good-reason schlong, which he had nicknamed Wendell,” Kaylan writes, “and waved it at the befuddled girls, who hooted, hollered and pushed their friends aside to get a look at the one-eyed monster.” Kaylan even once snorted cocaine off of Abraham Lincoln’s desk in the White House, when the Turtles performed there at the request of President Nixon’s daughter Tricia. (The band also found themselves with Secret Service guns pointed at their heads, when a metronome in one of their bags accidentally turned on.) So many rock memoirs that spotlight this sort of debauchery take a jaundiced later look at the misjudgments of youth. Kaylan, who proudly admits to still smoking pot at age 65, conveys no such regret. “When it’s all over and the piper plays ‘Happy Together’ one last time,” he writes, “I want to kiss my wife, hug my dog, take a giant toke and smile my way through the obsidian void.” ISBN 13: 9781617808463. Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles Flo and Eddie and Frank Zappa, etc. (LIVRE SUR LA MU) Kaylan, Howard. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Two full-color eight-page photo inserts. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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 . Just in case you're in a hurry, here's your bullet point: Best Rock 'n' Roll Memoir Ever. In fact, I could probably say music bios in general and still be right about that. (Remember: my opinion completely outranks yours. But I'm only here to help.) It's always been a bit annoying to contemplate the way Serious Music Fans dismissed The Turtles as just another fluffy pop group, until the day that Kaylan and Volman (and Jim Pons) became fixtures in Frank Zappa's band. But the '70s were way more polarised than younger folks think they were mainly due to our own revisionism. Oh, yes, I always loved The Dave Clark Five, The Monkees and The Turtles. The hell you did, old man. You re lying through your replacement teeth. You were one of the King Crimson fans who were sneering at me (or worse!) for still loving those bands in 1974. Nowadays, of course, people have come around. Sage music journalists (I know they're still out there one of them co-wrote this book) speak reverently of pop music purveyors like The Turtles with the same worshipping tone they use for the '67 Kinks and Zombies. As well they should. And Kaylan's book is right on time. No need to rehash his CV here you're reading Shindig! after all. Suffice to say Howard remembers everything, is hiding nothing, and unlike most oldies artists still has one ear to the ground. He tells his tale in his own voice, and it stays riveting from start to finish. He s honest about The Drug Years, without falling into the predictable David Crosby/Jimmy Greenspoon grey narrative that reads like Matthew 1 and Luke 3: ''Monday woke up, freebased. Tuesday woke up, freebased. Wednesday didn t wakeup. Thursday. '' No, it's a great book, and interesting all the way through. Kaylan knows everybody, remember, and he names names. Better even, he's still out there pounding the road into submission a hundred or so nights every year. This is a 262-page book. It could have been 500 and I still would have been sorry when it was over. With any luck, he's left something for Volman to write about. I'm sitting by the phone, Mark! --Shindig! Magazine (UK) One of the most blunt, non-filtered, and colorful characters still working in the music industry today, Howard Kaylan holds nothing back in his autobiography. Kaylan and fellow Turtle Mark Volman have made no bones about their issues with shady managers and rights to their material. So although Kaylan's antics and his career are enough meat for an exciting chronicle, the lessons about navigating murky waters and finding a good team are essential for indie musicians. And considering that the Turtles are one of the only '60s bands to still retain the rights to their work, that's saying quite a bit. --Sonic Bids. Rant ‘N’ Roll: Sex, Drugs & More Drugs. Shell Shocked: My Life With The Turtles, Flo & Eddie And Frank Zappa, Etc. (Backbeat Books)—by Howard Kaylan with Jeff Tamarkin— starts with Kaylan at the White House (The Turtles were Tricia Nixon’s favorite band) snorting coke on Abraham Lincoln’s desk. This 262-page rock star memoir gets good after only 29 pages when Kaylan writes, “‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ became a national Top Ten record. I bought my parents a huge color TV and a trip to Hawaii and never heard about bad career choices again.” Barely out of high school in 1965, they hit the road on one of Dick Clark’s Caravan Of Stars tours where singers Mel Carter and Tom Jones turned ‘em on to pot and groupies, respectively. Kaylan soon realized that because he has a hit record, he could have sex with girl after girl after girl (“even a potato of a guy like me”). Jones, with the tour bus slowly entering and exiting venues, and a gaggle of screaming girls banging on the windows, would, from the safety of the locked bus, wave his penis in the air at them. (Later, Eric Burdon would show him “groupie games” that, 45 years later, he’s still too embarrassed to embellish upon.) Their problem was that unlike self-sufficient bands who wrote their own hits, they didn’t. Still, they find “Let Me Be” and “,” enough to get ‘em on TV plenty and keep the girls and the pot hot. Plus, they make lots of friends. David Crosby invites ‘em to a post-show party when the Beatles play Dodger Stadium in 1966. They go with Beach Boy David Marks but, upon being stopped by the cops, and Marks yelling “Fuck you, pig! Oink oink,” they’re all hauled away to the station house instead. Hit number four made ‘em superstars. “Happy Together” was an international phenomenon. It got ‘em to London where Graham Nash got ‘em stoned and played ‘em Sgt. Pepper for the first time. It blew their minds. Nash then brought ‘em to a club to meet the Beatles. They insult the Moody Blues and are warned about John Lennon, who winds up being such a dick to them that rhythm guitarist Jim Tucker—who idolized John— winds up quitting the music industry for the rest of his life. A second negative Lennon story comes later in the book and it provides the most heartbreaking moment if you are—as I am—a Harry Nilsson fan. Kaylan and Nilsson were buddies and months before Nilsson’s death, he calls and the two go riding. He had already been diagnosed with cancer yet, much like Frank Zappa at the end of his life, refused to stop smoking or eating greasy food. Nilsson was already in his bathrobe phase, never getting dressed anymore. The two drive through L.A. and listen to Nilsson’s once-beautiful voice on all his hits, one of which is “The Puppy Song” (“Dreams are only made of wishes and a wish is just a dream you hope will come true”). The following exchange is priceless… “‘I was a pretty good singer once, wasn’t I?’” “‘You’re the best there ever was,’” I told him, meaning every word. I was tearing up too.” “‘He took it from me. He stole my voice and I never got it back.’” “The `he’ that Harry referred to was John Lennon, who famously produced the Pussy Cats album for Nilsson in 1974. Harry spoke of the primal screaming contests that John would coerce him into.” “‘I can scream louder and longer than you!’ And John could. But sweet gentle Harry couldn’t do it. He tried. The competition was fierce…it was too late, the damage had been done. Harry’s vocal cords were abraded beyond repair…” “‘Once I was a king, Howard. Now look at me. I’m just waiting to die.” Again, for those of us who have loved Harry for years, the revelation is astounding. Jeff Tamarkin, the former Aquarian writer, has always been a terrific journalist and continues to be to this day. He knows dramatic effect, yet he specializes in an incisive, informational and informative stylistic readability that when combined with Kaylan’s humor, has made for one great read. Kaylan has stories to spare, most of them are fueled by cocaine excess. The parties, the wives, the friendships with people like Marc Bolan and John Belushi, the music-biz craziness, it’s all here. Bowie. Throwing up on Jimi Hendrix. Being asked by Donald Fagen to sing lead for Steely Dan. Then there’s the night he’s performing at Montreux with Frank Zappa and the venue burns down. Deep Purple writes a song about it called “Smoke On The Water.”