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Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s [Paperback]

Nick Bromell (Author)
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Back in the '60s, "there was something weirdly rigorous and instructive in the act of getting stoned and listening to music as if it mattered," Bromell opines. To support that assertion, he deconstructs the era's rock music, especially that of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix. Contemporary fans may be mystified by Bromell's discourse, but boomers, those veteran navel-gazers, will appreciate his parsing and peeling of the decade's ditties like so many glass onions, and much of his spiel will ring true to Woodstock Nation survivors. After all, what's hearing Hendrix without psychedelic experience? Bromell's excellent pop-cultural history also sounds a wake-up call for parents who experimented with psychedelics then but support zero tolerance now. The best discussion of '60s rock culture since Joel Selvin's Summer of Love (1994), it suffers only from shortchanging black '60s musicians other than Hendrix, such as George Clinton, the Temptations, and the Chambers and Isley Brothers, who will have to wait for another incisive '60s sex-and-drugs-and-rock-and-roll tome to tell their stories. Mike Tribby
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"[A] short, passionate study written from inside the history it tells." - Greil Marcus, salon; "Music historians and social historians understate the interrelations among drugs, rock and roll, and the sixties, in part because most are thoroughly daunted by them as writers and thinkers. Nick Bromell renders them like he's been there and understands them like he's thought long and hard about them afterward. Tomorrow Never Knows reads like the best journalistic criticism both stylistically and interpretively - it's vivid, credible, and original." - Robert Christgau; "Tomorrow Never Knows brings us closer to the heart of what we call the sixties than any other book I know." - Jon Wiener, The Nation; "Bromell is aware of the underside of drug use, but he makes a convincing case that... the Sixties produced a way of seeing the world that succeeding generations can learn from." - Rolling Stone
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but..., Sep 4 2003
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This review is from: Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s (Paperback)
Bromell was there.

So was I.

But Bromell goes wild analyzing the spaces between words in Beatles or Dylan songs. While the spirit of the 60s is amenable to me and I agree that rock was an integral part of the times (and quite meaningful - quite "lived" as Bromell would say), it can be overdone. Nevertheless, it's an interesting read and at times Bromell's analyses of songs are more interesting than how I experienced the songs back when they were released (I think his PhD helped him look back with a keener eye than I'll ever have).

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2.0 out of 5 stars Dull regurgitations and sterile ruminations, Nov 11 2001
This review is from: Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s (Hardcover)
This book is the equivalent of an overly long and wannabe-contemplative VH1 "documentary." With the acknowledgment of how hard it is to capture the essence of the 60s' music and its society, this book then goes on to underwhelmingly live up to that observation. With self-important theorizing on the meaning of this-and-that, and hackneyed philosophizing on the significance of some banal lyrics or events, this book attempts to pass off various cliches as meaningful metaphors for other cliches. Nothing much is really said, nothing interesting is really brought out by his observations, and his attempts at capturing meaning leave one with the sense of "So What?".

This book is another in a tired line of works on the sixties based on repititious mythologies and platitudes. It's useful if you are looking for some form of validation; however, one would be better off sticking to VH1.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The bindings that tie., Nov 11 2001
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R. N. Owen (FERNDALE, MID GLAMORGAN United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Just like to add that this book is also a joy to look at. Beautifully produced example of the book binders' art. Check out the multi-coloured threads holding the pages together, someone put a great deal of thought into the production values here. Congratulations!
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