"Simply one of the best pieces of rock reportage ever written." (Los
Angeles Review of Books)
As a pioneering rock journalist for Hit Parader, Vogue, Saturday
Review, and other publications, Ellen Sander had a backstage pass to
the hottest music scenes of the 1960s. In this feast of juicy anecdotes
and keen social commentary, she draws upon her professional and personal
experiences to chronicle pop culture's highs and lows during the
turbulent decade. Join her for weird and wild road trips with companions
ranging from Yippies to the members of Led Zeppelin. Stops along the way
include the folk-music clubs of Greenwich Village, Haight-Ashbury in its
riotous heyday, and the euphoric festivals at Monterey and Woodstock.
"It is a memoir, a sourcebook, and a love letter," Sander writes, "a
recollection of a time, parenthesized by ambivalence and apathy, a
search for the ultimate high, a generation with an irrepressible vision,
its art, artists, its audience, and the substance of its statement."
This expanded edition of Trips adds "The Plaster Casters of Chicago",
Sander's seminal piece on groupie culture, the lengthy "Concerts and
Conversations", as well as a new preface and chapter postscripts.
