Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: A Memoir
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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: A Memoir
Eric Burdon , Jeff Marshall Craig , and Jeff Craig
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While Eric Burdon may be best remembered for his unforgettable vocals on the Animals’ platinum hit, “House of the Rising Sun,” this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member has never stopped having adventures. Burdon was ripped off by unscrupulous agents, accountants, and record labels, hounded by the police, and framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Yet through it all, he never became bitter. He was the first rocker to play behind the Iron Curtain. He sang with Jimi Hendrix, chased Jim Morrison out of his house with a .44, and introduced John Lee Hooker to the toughest venue Hooker ever played. Eric Burdon explains how he became the “Egg Man” in the Beatles’ “I am the Walrus.” With the enthusiasm and good humor of his live shows, Burdon recalls the tense reunion between John Lennon and Lennon’s long-estranged father; racing motorcycles across the California desert with Steve McQueen; picketing the offices of MGM Records for nonpayment of royalties; performing in wartime Sarajevo with a symphony orchestra; getting run out of Meridian, Mississippi for promoting black music, and singing his heart out year after year. A complete discography and fifty photographs, many never before published, are included in this unforgettable memoir. “Burdon has lived like a real rocker.” —The New York Times Book Review “Riveting and informative.”—Los Angeles Times “These reminiscences will delight Burdon’s fans ... in general.”—Library Journal

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3 out of 5 stars Eric The Screenplay.......2006-06-30

I found this book recently at a sale, and it came with a CD of three exclusive tracks for the Australia/ New Zealand market. The CD tracks were reworkings of House Of The Rising Son and Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood plus Lionize. I tend to baulk at most rerecordings, mostly finding the original to be the better version, which is the case here, however these two new versions are well arranged and performed, slightly over the top in the Burdon style, but he's still in good voice.

That left the book. For me, tales of rock `n roll excess eg. Stones, Jim Morrison bios I've found to be distasteful so I was hoping this not would be too explicit. I'd passed up another Eric autobiography which was going second hand (for a song...) called "I Used To Be an Animal" for that reason. Well, the bump and grind of rock `n roll familiarity is here and fortunately it does not resonate too loudly with lurid excess.

Tales of rip off in this industry are almost mandatory - if they didn't rip you off you weren't there - and it's here as expected, those corporate thieves and slimy opportunists who would suck the marrow from the bones of a songwriter. Eric now appears philosophic; the years have dissipated his anger - unlike Van Morrison who continues to musically regurgitate his grievances (yawn). Dodgy manager Mike Jeffrey, who leeched Jimi Hendrix as well as Eric (who believes Jeffrey may have faked his death), still holds a special place in his thoughts......

He recounts how former band member Alan Price was bequeathed the royalties to mega hit House of The Rising Sun due to the insistence of Jeffrey and the inexperience of the other young members, and that must have rankled over the years. Yet the band worked together later, and again I guess the years deaden the anger.

The narrative is an easy read, though at times disjointed and patchy, and sometimes with sketches where you hoped for the full blooded scene. He was neighbour to the great poet and author Robert Graves and some Graves' anecdotes would have been fascinating. Graves moves in and out of a couple of scenes but with no dialogue. Elvis drops into Eric's view in one scene, flying in like a super hero to give a cheque to charity, as you might expect. He also recounts Lennon's acerbic reunion with his father, and a young, ignorant Jerry Lee Lewis goading Chuck Berry on a tour bus in the UK. Another scene has Eric himself threatening to blast an obnoxious Jim Morrison out of his house. He was good friends with Jimi Hendrix and offers insight to his death.

Eric has lived the full hoopla and now recalls events in his way. It certainly is not literature as another reviewer suggested - try Dylan's Chronicles for splashes of that. Dylan also recalls events as he saw them. Incidentally I read Dylan's book alongside Howard Sounes' biography of The Bobmeister - an interesting and amusing comparison of what others recalled compared with Bob's historical recollection. Well of course he'd recounted the screenplay as he rememberd it. And possibly Eric has done the same and doubtless he's not one to let a fact, or the lack of such a thing, get in the way of a good yarn. In the words of Clive James "Autobiography is a lying art". Well it might be but in Eric's hands it is certainly entertaining. However if you're a musicologist, don't expect detail. This book is more about Eric's life and loves, not the appreciation or creation of his music.

Eric is an enigma. A guy blessed with an almighty soulful voice who wrote and adapted some damned good songs but in this book he recalls few of them in the making. I get the impression he's a tradesman who goes in, wires the house and departs. He mentions some bluesmen, yet the passion for their music isn't displayed, but it must have been there. I suspect that the authors geared this book to their perception of the modern market. I think they missed an opportunity, or maybe they provided for another with a sequel. Anyway, the bottom line is that it is an enjoyable albeit bumpy ride through Eric's landscape of the last 60 odd years.

4 out of 5 stars A Good Read.......2003-08-13

Informative and well written. Thoroughly enjoyable.

5 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable read.......2002-08-04

Absolute must-have for any Eric Burdon fan. He is a wonderful story teller and keeps you amused and interested all the way through. He's and gives a lot of personal info. as well as sharing some great anecdotes about life on the road etc. After reading his book and learning about all he's been through,(and that's only what he's shared with us) and after seeing him play some 40 years after his start - you can only admire the man !!

5 out of 5 stars Anti-Gravity.......2002-03-28

Anti-Establishment is a gross misrepresentation of Mr. Burden. Anti-gravity is far more accurate. God forbid this fella ever has an LSD flashback; he'd boomerang so far back he'd be skipping rope with his own DNA chain. Eric took drugs like the rest of us brush our teeth, daily at least once and some times more. The book is a terrific read.Great view from the inside from one of the front stage guys of the times. I picked up this book on Saturday, and put it down finished Sunday! Very, very entertaining. If you want to get away from the real world, without the use of intoxicants, grab on to Eric's shirt tail, its a real trip.

3 out of 5 stars Many of Eric's best friends are dead.......2002-03-09

Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, John Lennon, John Lee Hooker....

These are the people that Eric Burdon thinks most highly of, and they are all dead. He is much less kind to the living throughout much of this book. I feel a big reason for this is that the dead cannot refute the statements you make about them. The topper was his claim that he was the "eggman" that Lennon sang about in "I Am the Walrus." It kind of cast a shadow on many of his other claims.

Don't get me wrong. I enjoy most of Eric's (original) work and I strongly regret the unavailability of his late 1960's work outside of the numerous compilations. The stories presented in this book took me by surprise and sometimes made me laugh out loud. I shared more than a few of these anecdotes with my co-workers.

What the book is missing is more focus on the music. I would have loved to read more about his days with the original Animals and the stormy reunions. I also would have liked to read his thoughts on the period between "Winds of Change" and "Love Is" - how the music changed and his thoughts on the later Animals players and how he discovered them.

All in all, this is fun reading. The personal anecdotes are priceless, but it left me wanting to hear more about the music itself and the people that he worked with (not just the one off jams, but the albums).
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
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While Eric Burdon may be best remembered for his unforgettable vocals on the Animals’ platinum hit, “House of the Rising Sun,” this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member has never stopped having adventures. Burdon was ripped off by unscrupulous agents, accountants, and record labels, hounded by the police, and framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Yet through it all, he never became bitter. He was the first rocker to play behind the Iron Curtain. He sang with Jimi Hendrix, chased Jim Morrison out of his house with a .44, and introduced John Lee Hooker to the toughest venue Hooker ever played. Eric Burdon explains how he became the “Egg Man” in the Beatles’ “I am the Walrus.” With the enthusiasm and good humor of his live shows, Burdon recalls the tense reunion between John Lennon and Lennon’s long-estranged father; racing motorcycles across the California desert with Steve McQueen; picketing the offices of MGM Records for nonpayment of royalties; performing in wartime Sarajevo with a symphony orchestra; getting run out of Meridian, Mississippi for promoting black music, and singing his heart out year after year. A complete discography and fifty photographs, many never before published, are included in this unforgettable memoir. “Burdon has lived like a real rocker.” —The New York Times Book Review “Riveting and informative.”—Los Angeles Times “These reminiscences will delight Burdon’s fans ... in general.”—Library Journal

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5 out of 5 stars what a life!.......2007-08-31

this is an absorbing, fascinating look into the life of a rock god. if you want to know what was really happening backstage, and how rock representatives, promoters and attorneys got rich, this is a quick, interesting read.

2 out of 5 stars stream of consciousness style of writng..........2007-08-13

Last week my wife & I went to see Eric Burdon & the Animals, so I thought I would pick up his new book & catch up on the goings on of this rock legend. He spoke of meeting his idols starting with Louis Armstong & later Jimmy Witherspoon, Big Joe Turner & many others. Eric also tells of a time when he got his friend's kid backstage to meet Ringo. It gave me the impression that backstage at the Animals show, Eric would be gregarious towards his fans but he kept his distance as he prepared to go on stage. He popped his head out of his dressing room door & when I asked for a moment of his time he ran right back into another room with barely a glance in our direction. It wouldn't have taken the man but 3 minutes to give me an autograph & shake our hands. My wife & I were the only ones seeking an audience with our hero, it's not like there was 20 people hanging out. Not everyone is an entrepeneur or a Mark David Chapman. Well, anyway the man still put on a great show but I guess you can't believe everything you read about someone. The real kicker is that the great, unassuming lead guitarist from the original Animals Hilton Valentine passed us about a dozen times in the hall but I didn't recognize him. He would have gladly given us a quick chat and signed my old Animals LP.

5 out of 5 stars The Archetypal Rock Star.......2004-05-27

There is a saying, " If you can remember the 60's, then you weren't really there." Well I think Eric Burdon is the exception to that saying. Best known for his haunting lyrics in " House of The Rising Sun," Eric Burdon was no one hit wonder in the music industry. His tales of living through the flower generation, the untimely death of Jimi Hendrix, followed by the formation of WAR and his imprisonment in Germany are inspiring. It's amazing that he lived through so much and has lived to talk about it all the while keeping his sanity.

The autobiography starts off with a hooking introduction about his exploits as The Animals frontman as well as his "good times" playing at "The Ed Sullivan Show." He describes his near death experiences with mind altering drugs as well as good times singing the blues with greats like B.B. King and James Brown. Another notable experience of his was chasing Jim Morrison out of his house with a loaded gun. Eric Burdon sung his soul out. He had jammed with the best by the time he was thirty and was well respected by his peers.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, Eric Burdon has had enough mishaps and experiences for a dozen lifetimes. As an artist, he had been ripped off, stabbed in the back and jailed; but throughout it all he lived to tell his story of life as a rock and roll star. He weaves his epic as though you are actually there watching The Animals perform live or on the street looking at Eric Burdon's one man picket line. It is amazing how Mr. Burdon can recall his life experiences with such vibrant detail, never holding anything back. After having read his book, i feel as though i had actually lived his life and that's what a good autobiography should do.

5 out of 5 stars Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.......2004-04-04

Anyone raised in 60's paranoia, could appreciate this soulful imperative about misunderstanding. Who better than the voice of Eric Burdon has the credentials to raise the specter to that social phenomenon? Of course, his friend and colleague, Bob Dylan, had a lot to say about that creepy sense of ignorance and insecurity in "Ballad of a Thin Man." Taken in a similar context, Cream's "We're Going Wrong," or Peter Fonda's last words to Billy, "We Blew it!" before they are murdered at the end of "Easy Rider," accentuate a deeper and more depressing picture to an era. I grew up listening to the Animals, and became attuned at an early age to the unique sound of Eric Burdon's vocalizing. "House of the Rising Sun," "It's My Life," "We Gotta Get Outta This Place," impressed me as it did everyone else I knew at the time who loved their music. Each of these songs evoked a tale of some kind, and it was through repeated listening to the "Story of Bo Diddly," that I found myself really appreciating the voice of Eric Burdon as a story teller. This was followed by "Don't Bring me Down," "When I was Young," and a little later, "Spill the Wine." All of these songs entered my psyche as memorable and significant artistic masterpieces, and soon formed the proverbial soundtrack to my life. When I saw on the cover, Brian Jones describing him as "the best blues singer to come out of England," I was reasonably certain the book had to be good. I wasn't disappointed. The book is entertaining and easy to read. It's filled with really cool and illustrative pictures that cover Eric's life and career. There are quite haunting parts to the book as well, that stayed with me long after I'd finished it. The part about Monika, "the stalker," who may have been responsible for drugging Jimi Hendrix to death in an obsessed, psychopathic and jealous rage, is one of them. Another is his pool side LSD hallucinations of the "giant, purple cockroaches." Then there are descriptions of the desert skyline, riding the dunes on a Harley, in the company of Steve McQueen. To avoid any misunderstanding, if possible, I think the book deserves to be read in the tradition of the poetic bards of old. It helps to listen receptively for what Eric has to say, given his unique point of view. Listen to what his tale conveys, with the sensibility of "Watch the Heroes as they Die," or the "Winds of Change." It'll either be worth your time and effort, or you may decide, in the alleged words of Bo Diddly after hearing the Animals for the first time playing his "material," "That sure is the biggest load of rubbish I ever heard in my life."

5 out of 5 stars British Invasion Badboy Tells All.......2003-07-19

This remarkable memoir transcends the usual boundaries of the music autobiography and approaches literature. Eric Burdon has lived a wonderful life by any standard but this book also reveals that Burdon is a shrewd observer of the musical and cultural scene. What will remain in my mind are the many character sketches of notable and iconic personages of the last few decades: Steve McQueen, Ed Sullivan, Jimi Hendrix, and above all, the "Lizard King" himself, Jim Morison. One suspects that many fans of the Doors will see their hero in a new light. Burdon's description of the filming of Oliver Stone's movie The Doors is worth the purchase price in and of itself. Any devotee of the original British Invasion bands will find a wonderful series of anecdotes about the Beatles, the Stones, and the Animals. I bought this book because I am a fan of the Animals; I loved the book because it contains so much more than the mere story of a band (or bands). I supect that many readers, like me, will also be fascinated by Burdon's wry observations on the social and political scene along the way. Eric Burdon's narrative flows along propelled by the author's humor and humanity. Ultimately, the man himself emerges as one of the most interesting personalities of the Sixties. I loved this book!
Hiram To: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
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  • Sumptuous traces of an 'identity' that never was
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Hiram To: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Richard Grayson , Cheung King Hung , and Marnie Butvin
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5 out of 5 stars Sumptuous traces of an 'identity' that never was.......2005-08-12

Extracted from Donna McAlear's introductory essay: Performing Attitudes

The resources of the Hong Kong / Australian artist Hiram To are the formal and theoretical styles of late twentieth century art - minimalism, conceptualism, and post-modern photography -along with today's consumer marketing tactics, Hiram To - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood demonstrates his astute melding of high art conventions with populist material extracted from fashion, film music and advertising.

To uses high and low visual cultural references solely as ideological templates to position the artist and his audience inside the zone of cultural production, where self-representation is fashioned and reformed over time. In this respect, he does not offer a simple critique of self-representation; rather, he engages in a dual inquiry into the function of representation in culture and, by extension, the morality of individual choice in life with regard to public consumption and appearance. He is adept at creating a collusion of conventional art styles and the complicated ethics of an individual's social politics in a capitalist world. The Skin I'm In, In Visible Differences and Visible Difference, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and ....you don't know how I feel are highly atmospheric installations, multi-layered with images and quotes from art history, pop culture and advertising. The moods they evoke vacillate from rich, dreamy and glamorous to cool, distant, vacant. The artist creates scenarios in which the self appears to have exited the stage, leaving behind sumptuous traces of an 'identity' that never was.

Works by the artist can be readily interpreted as critiques of consumer culture; they sit comfortably within the norms of art museum practice where it is expected that artists demonstrate a critical agenda. Indeed, he deliberately exposes the codes of artwork aesthetics and values to elicit a principled response from a knowing audience. However, in many ways, his work seems to revere the sensuality and captivation of the mass marketplace and its communication styles. In this respect, Hiram To exposes the minute fragments which assist in the construction of a public self image and persona.

5 out of 5 stars A Different Artistic Discourse from Asia.......2005-08-02

Hiram To is a Hong Kong-based artist with a substantial record of public gallery exhibitions in Australia, as well as internationally. His work is concerned with the cultural production of identity. Suggesting that we are all "high performers", his diverse installations articulate the ways we negotiate ethical codes in our everyday lives. How do we present ourselves in our public and private lives? How do our material possessions, fashion choices and social affinities reflects our values and beliefs? His materials are as diverse as his cultural references.

By incorporating elements of popular culture into the rarefied realm of visual art, To underscores the conflation of advertising, entertainment, and art in consumer culture. Film, fashion, academia, and art are all driven by the dollar. Scholarship and commerce may seem unthinkable bedfellows, but the institutions of cultural production and distribution (museums and galleries) are subject to the same economic realities as Hollywood and Gap.

'Love Like Diamonds' is a collection of designer T-shirts embroidered with artist names like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ed Ruscha and Ken Lum. Visible Differences is a series of wall-mounted plates depicting Caucasian actors made up as Asian characters in popular Hollywood films. Cultural icons from Comme des Garçons to Wong Kar-wai converge in an œuvre that is at once opulent and passionate, witty and dry. This elegant and profusely illustrated publication is in itself testimony to a sophisticated artistic discourse.

Clothing and fashion, as metaphors for skin and self-image, are recurring themes in To's work. In 'The Skin I'm In' (1994, 2002), for example, photographs of clothing details form the five surfaces of a drum kit. The implied human body, the clothes it might wear, and the drums it might play become entangled in a concept where skin becomes surface becomes self. Five life-size photographs of a young sailor form a backdrop to the drum kit. They represent desire, but as sleek, staged, photographic echoes of the real thing. In a netherworld between substance and surface, we must consider whether it is even possible to speak of authentic identity anymore. The sailors also underscore To's concerns for sexuality, especially male sexuality, as it is constituted, like other aspects of identity, across the conundrum of contemporary consumerism.


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                  Title: Aileen Wuornos superstar.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
                  Author: Thomas Doherty
                  Publication: Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
                  Date: June 22, 2004
                  Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
                  Volume: 29 Issue: 3 Page: 3(3)

                  Article Type: Cover Story, Critical Essay

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                  Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, The 2002 Interviews
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                    Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, The 2002 Interviews
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                    Manufacturer: DEJ Productions
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                    Binding: DVD
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                      Binding: Hardcover
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                      Mind Over Machine
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                      • Mind Over Machine by Dreyfuss and Dreyfuss
                      Mind Over Machine
                      Hubert L. Dreyfus , and Stuart E. Dreyfus
                      Manufacturer: Free Press
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                      5 out of 5 stars Mind Over Machine by Dreyfuss and Dreyfuss.......2004-01-25

                      The authors discuss the difficulties inherent in programming
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                        Kosol Ouch , Koeun, Noun Ouch , and David Lowrance
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                        Mind over manufacturing.(politicians are responding to citizen complaints abot answering machines, even if companies are not)(Brief Article): An article from: Tooling & Production
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                          Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                          This digital document is an article from Tooling & Production, published by Nelson Publishing on May 1, 2000. The length of the article is 504 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                          Title: Mind over manufacturing.(politicians are responding to citizen complaints abot answering machines, even if companies are not)(Brief Article)
                          Publication: Tooling & Production (Magazine/Journal)
                          Date: May 1, 2000
                          Publisher: Nelson Publishing
                          Volume: 66 Issue: 2 Page: 5

                          Article Type: Brief Article

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