Danny Goldberg - Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump

for Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

Goldberg provides a fresh, eyewitness account of otherwise familiar tales Serving the Servant, in its own understated, overprotective way, effectively conveys the frustration, the to-the-bone grief, that comes from losing a loved one who was fundamentally unknowable in the first place. Its the closest thing we have to a survivors account

Washington Post

A poignant memoir that spans the three and a half years that Goldberg knew the late musician.

Rolling Stone

[This is] Goldbergs soulful account of Cobain as a close friend, gone way too soon, yet vividly alive on every page of this remarkable book.

Cameron Crowe

for In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

[A] legendary steward of the hip musical world Goldberg plunges into a thorough, panoramic account of the culture, politics, media, music and mores of [1967] to demolish the idea that it was trivial. He has researched and interviewed widelyhis section on underground newspapers is impressively detailedand hes been there with many of the principals through all these years Goldbergs deep purchase on his subject and his storytelling ease make it fresh Personal asides give the account intimacy [The book proves] that so much activism and passion can be crowded into barely more than a single year. When Goldberg was writing his book, that might have been a useful message. Today, in Trumps America, with a fueled and gathering resistance, it is a potentially mirroring one.

Sheila Weller, New York Times Book Review

Goldbergs book is what one might call a survey of the period. His narrative skillfully weaves the music, the drugs, the politics, and the spiritual searching of the hippie counterculture into a tale that moves quickly and smoothly What Goldberg has achieved in In Search of the Lost Chord is laudable. Not only has he provided his contemporaries with a very readable and fairly wide-ranging look at an important time in their youth, he has also given todays younger readers a useful and well-told historical survey of a subculture and time they hear about quite often.

CounterPunch

Danny Goldberg is a relentless tracker of people. However elusive this Lost Chord may be, Danny G. searches it out and nails it to the tree flesh. Eternity now! 1967 forever!

Wavy Gravy

This extraordinary book transports us back to a moment when, as Goldberg writes, the phrase peace and love was not meant or taken ironically. Beginning at sixteen, Goldberg was a participant in the rise and cresting of the hippie movement, the hippie ideal, which has been trivialized and disparaged in later decades. He cuts through the obfuscation and recreates the sense of magic, wonder, intimacy, and community that was in the air and you could breathe it in. If you want to know, or remember, what it was like to be alive and part of that historic wave, I can think of no better guide than In Search of the Lost Chord.

Sara Davidson, author of Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties

for Bumping into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business

Goldberg reminds us that the recording industry was remade in the late sixties and seventies by businessman-hippies seeking not just profit but proximity to artists they admired and a role in the countercultural ferment. It is one of many insights in this surprisingly excellent book, an engaging, droll, and largely demystifying look at the evolution of the rock trade from Woodstock to grunge.

New York Times Book Review

[An] insightful behind-the-scenes view of the music industry from 1969 through 2004 like having a laminated backstage pass to the music business, intertwined with a juicy slice of countercultural history.

Paul Krassner, Los Angeles Times

Danny Goldberg chronicles the phases of his careerrock journalist, record-company president, manager to musicians ranging from Kurt Cobain to Warren Zevonwith the sort of candor few record-biz execs would attempt Admirably blunt, but also spiked with tart humor.

Entertainment Weekly

for How the Left Lost Teen Spirit

Danny Goldbergs new book is a stirring, brilliant, last-chance plea to Democrats that if they are unwilling to do their jobbe a voice for working people, young people, women, the elderly, the poor, and people of color (in other words, for the MAJORITY of the country)then their days as a party are numbered. Years from now, if the Democrats have long faded from American memory, anthropologists and historians will ask, Didnt any of them read this book by Danny Goldberg?

Michael Moore

An affecting memoir of Goldbergs experiences within the clash of popular culture and politics The great value of his book is as an insiders tour of American cultural life from the sixties to the present.

Library Journal

Danny Goldbergs searing insights and straightforward recommendations for the future of the left should be required reading for anyone concerned with the state of democratic politics in this country. This book exemplifies the notion that the pen truly is mightier than the sword.

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

Danny Goldbergs memoir contains the powerful reflections of the most progressive activist in the recording industry. His candor, vision, and sense of humor are infectious.

Cornel West

ART, ENTERTAINMENT, AND
RESISTANCE TO TRUMP

DANNY
GOLDBERG

DRAWINGS BY KAY KASPARHAUSER

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Published by Akashic Books

2021 Danny Goldberg

ISBN: 978-1-61775-979-6; elSBN: 978-1-61775-987-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021935254

First printing

Drawings by Kay Kasparhauser

Lyrics from the song Mother of Muses by Bob Dylan
are used courtesy of Universal Music

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For Marge Tabankin,
who always walks the walk

Sing of the mountains and the deep dark sea
Sing of the lakes and the nymphs in the forest
Sing your hearts out, all you women of the chorus
Sing of honor and fame and glory be
Mother of Muses, sing for me

Bob Dylan, Mother of Muses

In August 2019, following a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, the Washington Post published an article with the headline, Rihanna, Cardi B, John Oliver and more lash out at Trump after deadly mass shootings. The story, about the political thoughts of singers and comedians on the issue of gun violence, did not appear in the