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Summary: Great book!
Review: After reading several books on the Summer of Love, San Francisco in the 60ies,... this was the first one that gave a real insight how everyday life back then really was. It shows both sides, the good and the bad ones, using a very colorful expression. Once I'd started reading I couldn't put it away until the end.
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Summary: Good book you don't want to miss.
Review: I happened to be fortunate enough to be part of the San Francisco scene in the 60's. Hung out in many a doorway, waiting for many a dance-hall doorway to open to get inside to listen to the changing times we were caught up in through the wonderful music that these bands were playing; Quicksilver, the Dead, the Airplane, Big Brother. We were part of the "cult" of the time, myself and my good friend Eddie the Roach. We spent our days over in Berkeley selling necklaces and silver items that we'd make at Golden Gate Park to finance our constant concert-going habits. I had the privilege of meeting Ms. Duncan through my girlfriend, Christina, who had a two-year-old sweet blonde little girl named Moonbeam. Christina and Shelley became really good friends via a friendship through their children. With this I want to say that I was really surprised that a wife of Gary Duncan, who was always stoned (Gary, that is) along with the rest of the band, was so opposed to, and did not do drugs because she was dedicated to being a good mother and provider for her children. She was one of the most caring, sensitive, down-to-earth woman I'd had the pleasure to know.
This book is not about the band. It's not about musicians. It's about what a wife, woman and mother had to endure while raising children. Coping with drugs, a philandering husband, and being surrounded by capitalist, parasitic so-called "I'm your friend," kind of people. Yet, Shelley survived with her mind and spirit intact. As I'm writing this, I realize I'm compelled to rebut "Cynthia's" borderline libelous attempt to demean a wonderfully written narrative of Shelley's personal experiences that no one else could have written except for Shelley. How dare Cynthia stand from the outside--obviously where she was at that time, spewing her negativity. It did not just come naturally. She had to work at it. She obviously was not a friend of Shelley's and the Quicksilver family. They would not have put up with her kind of thinking. The Quicksilver people were earthy, talented, and cared for one another. This kind of leads me to believe that there really isn't a "Cynthia" out there. This may very well be coming from a disgruntled old, mean ex-QMS hanger-oner who, like a tick on a hound dog, doesn't know when to let go.Buy the book and decide for yourself.
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Summary: A DOWN HOME ROCK AND ROLL EPIC
Review: Shelley Duncan bares all to tell the tale of her love affair with Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service one of San Francisco's premier rock and roll bands of the 60's. Most of it is very touching and unsettling at the same time... Shelley really lived a real hippie lifestyle during those ten years. She clearly describes every detail and bring the reader into her life and leaves little to the imagination... This is a very sexy book.
I really enjoyed Shelley's book and highly recommend it to anyone wishing to view Life on the inside of an important rock and roll band during the heyday of the San Francisco Sound...
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