Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
暫譯: 女神、女侍、女僕:不可思議弦樂團中的女孩生活

Simpson, Rose

  • 出版商: Strange Attractor Press
  • 出版日期: 2021-02-23
  • 售價: $980
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$960
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 264
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1907222677
  • ISBN-13: 9781907222672
  • 相關分類: 其他
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商品描述

A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.

Between 1967 and 1971 Rose Simpson lived with the Incredible String Band (Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Licorice McKechnie), morphing from English student to West Coast hippie and, finally, bassist in leathers. The band's image adorned psychedelic posters and its music was the theme song for an alternative lifestyle.

Rose and partner Mike Heron believed in, and lived, a naive vision of utopia in Scotland. But they were also a band on tour, enjoying the thrills of that life. They were at the center of "Swinging London" and at the Chelsea Hotel with Andy Warhol's superstars. They shared stages with rock idols and played at Woodstock in 1969. Rose and fellow ISB member Licorice were hippie pin-ups, while Heron and Robin Williamson the seers and prophets of a new world.
T
hrough a haze of incense and marijuana, they played out their Arcadian dreams on stages brilliant with the colors of clothes, light-shows, rugs, cushions, and exotic instruments. Like most utopias, the ISB's imploded. Never seeing herself as a professional musician, Rose retained an outsider's detachment even while living the life of a hippie chick. Her memoir gives a voice to those flower-wreathed girls whose photographs have become symbols of the psychedelic sixties.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《一位不可思議弦樂團成員的回憶錄,描繪了從嬉皮烏托邦到伍德斯托克後的崩潰之旅。》

在1967年至1971年間,Rose Simpson與不可思議弦樂團(Mike Heron、Robin Williamson和Licorice McKechnie)共同生活,從英語學生轉變為西海岸的嬉皮士,最終成為穿著皮革的貝斯手。該樂團的形象裝飾著迷幻海報,其音樂成為替代生活方式的主題曲。

Rose和伴侶Mike Heron相信並生活在蘇格蘭一個天真的烏托邦願景中。但他們同時也是在巡演中的樂團,享受著那種生活的刺激。他們身處於“搖擺倫敦”的中心,與安迪·沃荷的超級明星們一起住在切爾西酒店。他們與搖滾偶像同台演出,並在1969年參加伍德斯托克音樂節。Rose和ISB的成員Licorice是嬉皮士的偶像,而Heron和Robin Williamson則是新世界的先知。

在香煙和大麻的迷霧中,他們在舞台上展現了他們的田園夢想,舞台上充滿了色彩繽紛的服裝、燈光秀、地毯、墊子和異國樂器。像大多數烏托邦一樣,ISB最終崩潰。Rose從未將自己視為專業音樂家,即使生活在嬉皮女孩的生活中,她仍保持著外部者的超然。她的回憶錄為那些花環女孩發聲,她們的照片已成為迷幻六十年代的象徵。

作者簡介

Rose Simpson is an English former musician. Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass guitar, violin, and percussion. She later became Lady Mayoress of the Welsh town of Aberystwyth.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

羅絲·辛普森(Rose Simpson)是一位英國前音樂家。她在1968年至1971年間是不可思議弦樂團(Incredible String Band)的成員,與該樂團一起演唱並演奏低音吉他、小提琴和打擊樂器。她後來成為威爾斯城鎮阿伯里斯特威斯(Aberystwyth)的女市長(Lady Mayoress)。