The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man

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Lackluster and sloppy, though honest

THE MAN'S A MAN FOR `A THAT

Badly edited/proofread, but it has its momentum

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Enjoyable look back at the 1960's

The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan Leitch
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Often called Britains Bob Dylan, Donovan was an unconventional artist, a romantic outsider who ushered in a new sound to the folk genre. His international hits Mellow Yellow and Jennifer Juniper brought folk music to mainstream audiences. Scheduled to coincide with his 40th anniversary tour and the release of Sony/BMGs box set, The Autobiography of Donovan is an openly honest memoir about the life and times of Donovan. He recalls everything, from his days as an itinerate teen, camping on beaches and hitchhiking, to his life as a chart-topping folk star hob-knobbing with such legends as Joan Baez, Brian Jones, and even Bob Dylan, as well as his legendary trip with the Beatles to the Maharishi. With the same poetic charm that made his songs classics, The Autobiography of Donovan is a celebration of the 60s, filled with all the joy, love, and reverie of the times.

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Lackluster and sloppy, though honest.......2007-08-11

I've been a fan of Donovan for years, and it pains me to say that his autobiography is a massive disappointment. First, it is badly written; I respect the fact that he apparently decided against a ghostwriter, but this book shows why there is a place for ghostwriters in the literary world. The prose is awkward, the chronology is occasionally jumbled, and he comes as rather pretentious--while he did influence pop music, and also reflected the influence of others, he seems to think that he is the reason for the popularity of folk-rock, Celtic rock, psychedelic rock, and heavy metal; he inspired Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, the Beatles (individually and collectively), the Rolling Stones, and T. Rex, among others; and he thinks he is responsible for the founding of Led Zeppelin (as all the members but Robert Plant played on the "Hurdy Gurdy Man" sessions). He is honest about his drug use, and I respect him for not trying to excuse it away or claim it meant nothing to him, and there is something touching about his story of finally finding the love of his life, Linda, after several years of missed connections. But to make sense of his career and his influence, I will have to wait for someone a bit more objective (and someone who is a more straightforward writer) to issue the definitive book.

Lastly, the book was terribly edited and proofread. There are glaring mistakes of every kind on every page. The names of people such as Allen Klein, Phil Spector, and Steve Winwood, all of whom come up more than once, are misspelled consistently. Sentences are missing the words that would make them grammatical, or even make them make sense. At one point, he mentions the chart positions of some songs, but someone forgot to go back and dig up the chart numbers for a Bob Dylan song, resulting in blank spaces instead of numbers. Considering this came from a major publishing house (St. Martin's) and that the book was originally published in the UK two years ago, leaving plenty of time for corrections to this edition, this is nothing short of shameful. The book is a huge letdown and I cannot recommend it. Instead, go back to his original albums, most of which are available on CD, and listen to his music, most of which holds up quite well.

THE MAN'S A MAN FOR `A THAT .......2007-07-24

Wow - a quick read, chokkers with chuckles and nostalgia, patchouli on every page, and topped off here in Amazon by his old mate Si Cutler's review from Dec 2005. If Donovan gets around to a sequel he should include that review, answer it, using a ghost writer or two, if necessary. I must admit that I was amused by the old plucker's penchant to `Big It Up', as they say in the UK. Even Little Richard, Paul McCartney and Liam Gallagher don't come close. Apart from such wildly exaggerated claims which depict The Don as the Lodestone of most popular and classical forms of music - ok I admit a compulsion to slight exaggeration - here was a man who had made it, in the words of John Lennon `to the toppermost of the poppermost', a man who was making buckets of bullion, who enjoyed the company of The Beatles, had meditated, medicated and no doubt levitated with a couple of them and had shown them a finger pickin' trick or two at the ashram, man. Here was the Sunshine Superman who had leapt (in rage?) naked onto the back of an English bobby, yet, who now finds it necessary to resize his image to the grandest proportion. What? Who wouldn't?? Opportunity and motive, mate.

Since the late sixties the fickle focus of fame has eluded Donovan in its spotlight, apart from a flicker or two in the seventies and nineties. By his own account he dropped out after he married Linda, although I recall he made several attempts to jump back in. Despite his undoubted successes in record sales and concerts, plus a reputation as a nice chap, pop history has not been overly kind to this magus of flower power and `bohemian manifesto'. His output in retrospect has been portrayed as fey, foppish, a wee bit silly and indulgent. Other major singer songwriters of his era have fared better in critical review, artists such as Paul Simon and Bob Dylan, (both of whom Don noted were short in stature....), and Chuckling Len Cohen - all three from the `lost tribe of Israel', as distinct from the `lost tribe of Celts' from whence Don came, via the tenements `o Glasgae, och aye. Point is, when you are wielding the pen, metaphorically or actually, you have the power to rewrite history to your satisfaction, sorry....recollection, to replace that smashed bulb in the spotlight, to shine on your crazy diamond.

I noted in another review that `autobiography is a lying art', in the words of that great Aussie Clive James. In the hands of Dylan it is great literary entertainment, and you accept that you are viewing events through Dylan's cinematic perspective i.e. historical accuracy has little to do with it. If you want that you can check his myriad biographers for consensus of opinion, but doubtless that will differ from Bob's version of events. The question here is purpose. Take Don's version of playing for Dylan as recorded in the Pennebaker film 'Don't Look Back'. Don recalls playing his song 'To Sing for You' while His Bobness remained still, showing due respect. Bob returns with Don's requested 'It Ain't Me Babe', which seals what Don experiences as an ancient folk ceremony. I recall Dylan asks `You wrote that?' in somewhat ambiguous tone, then lets loose with `It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'. It's a question of sequence perhaps, recollection, and who has the scissors.

Donovan was not the originator of `world' music, or `Celtic rock', as he claims. These titles stand for what? Indigenous musics, fused or not, change from region to region and folk instruments and music had been previously incorporated into classical, jazz, film scores and pop. Celtic rock? Pogues, Thin Lizzy, U2, Capercaillie, Moving Hearts, Van? Can't hear Donovan there. I'm not sure that he was even a folk musician in the true sense, a relocated Scot singing Woody Guthrie - carrying who's tradition? What he did achieve were some very good songs, some lovely melodies and arrangements, fine vocals and guitar playing and yes some imaginative use of other genres. His arranger John Cameron undoubtedly contributed to a large extent. The Sunshine Superman/Mellow Yellow albums were excellent examples and I was surprised that one of them wasn't included in the recent Mojo top 100 `Records that Changed the World'. Fellow `reincarnated Celtic Bards' The Beatles of course did well, as did Nick Drake, the immortalized poetic singer songwriter, who is cited as an originator of `wispy acoustic folk'.

It is unfortunate that Donovan needed to pump it so hard, to inflate the image once again in this industry albeit where ego is not a dirty word and is in fact a pre requisite for entry. I wonder what happens to that ego, an ego of one who sits near the top, when sales fall and your style of music becomes passé and the music press and new artists ridicule, when old `so called friends' avoid you because to be associated is no longer hip, when people don't recognize you, when the clout and clap wane. A common story in show biz. I wonder if that happened, how you would react? An honest biography would be enjoyable, and doubtless fascinating. Meantime, get on board. Beep beep (didn't Donleavy say that....er also?).

Badly edited/proofread, but it has its momentum.......2007-06-17

Back in the 1960s, Donovan seemed, like the Beatles,
to reinvent himself brilliantly not just with every
album but even with every single. I wonder if now
he will start reinventing himself book by book.

Anyway, the bad news: some of the editing/proofreading is
woeful. Donovan notes at the start that sometimes he replaces
people's real names with made-up names, but here and there
someone is suddenly referred to by a different name which
I suppose is probably a stray instance of the real one.
There are places where the text jumps across a phrase or
number that was evidently intended to be added later; and
most unforgettably, a reference to the comedian Norman Wisdom
is printed as a reference to "Norman wisdom."

Donovan wants to reclaim his place in history. He points
out with no false modestly that he appeared with an electric
guitar before Dylan did, recorded with a sitar and sang "Love,
love, love" before the Beatles did, and inspired a journalist
to coin the term "flower power" when he decorated a stage
with thousands of lilies. He even claims to be the progenitor
of what today is called world music. Donovan's father was a
man of strong populist political views, and he loved to recite
Robert W. Service and other poets. He had Donovan reciting
poetry from an early age, and Donovan says that for that
reason stage fright has never visited him. But while his
father believed in political action of the confrontational
kind, Donovan himself believed in change from within and he
deliberately set about changing hearts and minds by means
of his songs -- successfully enough, he asserts, though he
could progress no further when what he considered "bad drugs"
took hold of the young people at the expense of what he
considered "good drugs."

Some things in Donovan's songs that I had assumed were
there simply because they sounded good and were good Dadaist
fun turn out to have actual significance. The summer before
his career took off, Donovan went off to bum around St. Ives,
which was a haven for bohemian youth, and a bakery was kind
enough to regularly give him day-old rolls that were called
saffron cakes, thus "I'm just mad about saffron," the opening
line of the "Mellow Yellow" song. From saffron cakes washed
down with stolen milk, he went to Britain's notorious 98% tax
bracket in no time, and although he's continued appearing and
recording, he notes that all the work he's best known for took
place between the ages of 18 and 24. He writes of his eclipse
as if it were deliberate, the result of being worn out and
having accomplished his life's work anyway.

Alongside the arcs of his career, his self-styled political-
philosophical mission, and his personal burnout, Donovan also
spins the story of his love, a love somewhat frightened of
itself on both sides, for the former wife of fellow musician
Brian Jones. All these threads combine to keep the momentum
strong, while the career triva strewn throughout add interest.

From one fan to another..........2007-05-19

I have been a Donovan fan since I heard him croon the most wonderful song (and my namesake) "Jennifer Juniper." I knew I was in love. Imagine the surprise that overcame me when I discovered that Donovan had written an autobiography. I just had to have it.

I was not disappointed. This is a fabulous look at the 1960's from a true bohemian point of view. Although some may not agree, he describes his influences and muse without being too pretentious. After all, he did spend a summer in St. Ives strumming his guitar. So what if he met and became friends with the Beatles and Dillon? It was part of his story, and something that we needed to hear.

All in all, this book is another example of self discovery, and a love story that spans decades. Now that I finished this memoir about the Hurdy Gurdy man, I know some of the stories behind the beautiful lyrics that I cannot seem to get out of my head. "I'm just mad about Saffron...."

Enjoyable look back at the 1960's.......2007-04-09

This is a highly enjoyable read even though it has a number of rather annoying moments. The fault lies not with Donovan's writing - he is after all a musician, a lyricist and a poet but he isn't, and doesn't pretend to be, a professional prose writer. The faults actually lie with the severe lack of editorial input. There are typographical errors throughout the book and factual errors in abundance all of which should have been corrected by whoever edited the original manuscript. (Note to editor - Joni Mitchell and Neil Young are Canadian, Steve Winwood is not Steve Windwood and the Hendrix Experience drummer is Mitch Mitchell, not Mitch Miller). Some of the narrative would have benefitted from being smoothed out and there are occasional paragraphs which don't lead anywhere.

The actual story of Donovan's rise to fame neatly encapsulates the rise of the period that reached it's height during 1967's summer of love. He was one of the great innovators of 60's music, the first to incorporate the sitar into his songs, the first to introduce a noticable jazz and world music influence into commercially successful songs and the first to record songs that had a undeniable psychedelic element. Donovan, as other reviewers have pointed out, isn't averse to making sure don't miss this point, which is a shame because other than this he comes across as a very likable and unassuming artist. Perhaps he feels that history gives more credit to others for the rapid advances in music during the years between '65 and '67 - and perhaps it does, but you only have to listen to his recorded output from this period to realise that he was a good year ahead of most of his contemporaries. He has a right to feel that the credit he deserves has not been given.

Read the book, enjoy the story of a truly orginal artist, ignore the faults, go and listen to Donovan's albums and prepare to be amazed.

The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man

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The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan (Author) Leitch
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Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups. But Flickr's own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface.

Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what's possible. Whether you're a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you'll find what you're looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you'll learn how to:

Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphone
Mash up your own photos or others' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notes
Back up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments too
Set random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaver
Geotag your photos and map your contacts
Download a list of photos and make a contact sheet
Make your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tags
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Feed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSS
Talk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications

Customer Reviews:

Great Flickr Reference.......2007-04-20

'Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online' by Paul Bausch is a great guide for anyone that likes to share photos online and uses or plans to use the incredible web app Flickr. 50 Hacks/Tips await you in this book, and I'll highlight some of my favorite hacks here:

07. Feed Your Latest Photos to Your Web Site
08. Make a Photo Gallery in 30 Seconds or Less
11. Play with Tags
23. View Flickr Photos on TiVo
33. Download a List of Photos
42. Build a Custom Upload Script
44. Find the Dominant Color of an Image
50. Make a Slideshow

If you enjoy working with photos and want to get more out of your experience, start using Flickr and learning from this guide... FUN awaits you!!

***** RECOMMENDED

get slickr flickr quickr.......2006-06-21

Flickr is not just a photo sharing site. It's a community, a toolset and maybe it's a way of life. You can post images from Flickr to your blog or other web site. You can upload images via e-mail or direct from your mobile phone. You can swap, share, geo-tag (add location data) and creative commons copyright your photos, screen shots and digital artwork. Think of Flickr as your personal image management centre.

This book provides an "open sesame" to this Aladdin's cave.. in one 'easy to read' volume. It delivers both an overview of the vast range of Flickr uses as well as detailed recipes, including code, on 'how to'.

The code samplets might just deter some less technical book shop browsers from buying. That's a shame, as even those with no intention of ever writing any Perl or PHP or otherwise accessing the Flickr API will find more than enough to interest them.

This single volume overview helps 'fast track' your Flickrability, giving you a short cut down the learning curve. That's what "hacks", and the whole wonderful O'Reilly Hacks series, are all about.

The exposition of the variety of these Flickr apps actually inspires you to think outside the frame and conjure up your own Flickr apps.

It's got me using my camera phone shopping and in household and automobile maintenance. See another great O'Reilly book in your local book shop but want to compare prices with another store? Click the book's image and check later. We needed oven repairs but couldn't tell the model, so click and Flickr, forward the URL to the supplier's tech department for advice. There's a crack in the retaining wall. Click it, date it, check back later to see if it's getting worse. Not all these uses are flickr apps, of course, but they show you how the 'new' technologies of cameras, camera phones, and the web work together. And Flickr has emerged as a key part of the story. They are delivering new "synergies" for everyday life.

I've been thinking of using my camera phone and Flickr to create a web based inventory for my book, CD and DVD library. Click and flickr avoids lots of typing. Sounds good to me. Why not a Flickr based 'business card' database? It would be shareable and accessible, for both upload and view, from multiple platforms. And you can control user access fairly easily. And the relatively small size of camera phone images is an advantage. It makes uploads easier. The Flickr hacks book doesn't tell you how to do these two specifically, but it does provide the tool kit.

"Flickr Hacks" gives us a few hints at the life story of Flickr itself. It tells us how Flickr began life as multi-user on-line game. It would be great to get more background of this kind. I suppose that will have to wait for another book. Hopefully we'll see "the Flickr Story" one of these days.

Incredible possibilities when using Flickr..........2006-05-07

Flickr is one of those web sites that has gone in directions I don't think anyone ever imagined it would go. What started out as simple photo-sharing is now a full-featured site with a programming API. Many of these are covered and explored in the book Flickr Hacks - Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online by Paul Bausch & Jim Bumgardner.

Contents: Sharing Photos; Tagging Photos; Viewing Photos; Community; Maintenance; API Basics; Custom Applications; Index

At the core, Flickr is a site to share pictures online with friends, family, or anyone else you open your pictures to. And pretty much, that's all I've used it for. I don't take a lot of pictures, but the ones I have taken that relate to shared experiences (like Lotusphere) have made it up there. In fact, someone sponsored me for a professional Flickr account (thank you!), but it's about ready to expire. I wasn't planning on renewing it at that level, but I may have to reconsider after reading this book. The book is about the size of a normal Hacks title, but there's only 50 hacks in here. As you can imagine, each one goes into much more detail than normal. And there *is* some fun stuff in here. If you have a little background in PHP or Perl, you can really get crazy, too. For instance, I didn't know you could email photos to your Flickr account. Hack #6 shows how that works, and it explains how Flickr can often serve as a real-time look into breaking events such as the London train bombing. People were using their cell phones to take pictures and then mailing them in to the Flickr account. Or for fun stuff, you can use the Flickr API to build routines to create "ransom note" messages (a different picture for each letter, "glued" together into sentences) in hack #47. Hack #48 shows you how to take one of your photos and create a "slider puzzle" out of it. And in between those two ranges you'll find a number of things that will cause you, like they did me, to say "Flickr can do that?"...

If you use Flickr and actively load photos out there, this will be a "must read" book to enhance and expand your Flickr experience. Even if you're just a casual user like me, you'll have your eyes opened to some new possibilities. Now where was that Flickr renewal email?

Bakari Chavanu MyMac.com Review.......2006-05-05

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Flickr has to be the best and most popular photo sharing website on the planet, without doubt. Over the past year since I've been a member and wrote an article for MyMac on this number one shutterbug community. I've amassed a couple of dozen bookmarks and RSS feeds based Flickr and Flickr related websites. Some include RSS feeds to my favorite photographers, others include sites that help me do fun and cool things with my photos, and others are just cool ways to navigate Flickr's immense collection of images. In fact, for the last six months, my Safari homepage is a Random Photo Browser that delivers me a page of fresh photos every time I open Safari.

If you're new to Flickr or want to get more out of it, Flickr Hacks covers just about everything there is know about storing, sorting, and sharing your photos as a Flickr member. What has taken me months to learn and collect in my Flickr bookmark folder, you can learn in about a weekend. One of the appeals of O'Reilly's series of hack books is that they give you the tools to expand and deepen your experience and use of popular sites like Amazon, Ebay, and Google.

For those new to Flickr, Flickr Hacks introduces you to the basics of setting up an account, uploading your photos to the site, sharing your images, tagging them, joining Flickr pools, and building your own Flickr screensaver and random desktop backgrounds.

The book explains several ways to upload your photos to your Flickr homepage. You can do it through the site itself, you can download a batch loader or your can use two of my favorite apps developed by Fraser Speirs of Connected Flow. He's built a plug-in uploader for iPhoto and has just released, probably as this book was going to to press, an a Tiger Automator action that enables you to upload a selected image file directly to your Flickr homepage. With this action, you don't have to open an application, fill in a box, or even convert the size of your selected image. Just control click and upload. Simple, easy, and fast.

For us advance Flickr members, Flickr Hacks reveals what is called the API underpinnings of the site. According to the authors, API is an "incredible application program interface (API), which lets you interact with Flickr in unique and powerful ways." Pages and pages of various codes and command line language might scare off many potential readers of this book. Even a title with the word "hacks" might either excite the loins of young emerging computer programers or make novice computer users scared they're doing something illegal. But the latter is not the case. If you carefully read the instructions for the 50 different hacks explained in this book, you can possibly have more fun and save more time navigating Flickr itself.

Of course, the book gives a link to a ZIP archive file of all the individual codes and scripts discussed in the book already saved as text files. As of this writing, the webpage for this link is not posted, but I'm sure that will be remedied very soon.

Some of the more advanced hacks in this books don't seem worth the trouble for me personally, but many others I plan to give a try. I would like for example to customize my Flickr badge for my blog site, create contact sheets of my favorite Flickr photos, capture all the comments I've made on the photos of other Flickr members. The advance hacks explained in this book are not essential to exploring the site, but if you're interested in learning more about the underpinnings of web programming, learning how to run these programmatic hacks on OS X's Terminal (Unix) command line or as CGI or PHP scripts on your web site or server, it wouldn't be a waste of time.

There are other advanced hacks about building a Flickr Color picker, modifying the metadata of your posted photos, tracking the favorite photos of your Flickr contacts, using Google Map to locate other Flickr members, or finding which Flickr members might be listed in your Address Book.

Many hacks in the book are crossed referenced so that after you've signed up as a Flickr member, you can basically start with any hack you like. Some hacks are merely just links to fun things you can do with your and other Flickr member's photos. For example, Hack #46 references FD's Flickr Toys which is a great collection of online apps that will convert your Flickr images into calendar pages, posters, mock magazine covers, slide shows, and much more. Numerous Flickr pools have been created to showcase cool photo projects based on these fun online tools.

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