Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mercy Fontenot, Lyndsey Parker, Des Barres (Afterword by)Publish date:2021-06-09Pages:0
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rare Bird BooksISBN-13:9781644281826ISBN-10:1644281821UPC:9781644281826Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Entertainment & Performing Arts, MemoirsSize:8.70 x 5.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCCE7WPXS6
Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl
"I'm the Mae West of 1968." Mercy Fontenot was a Zelig who grew up in the San Francisco Haight Ashbury scene, where she crossed paths with Charles Manson, went to the first Acid Test, and was friends with Jimi Hendrix (she was later in his movie Rainbow Bridge). She predicted the Altamont disaster when reading the Rolling Stones' tarot cards at a party and left San Francisco for the climes of Los...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rare Bird BooksISBN-13:9781644281826ISBN-10:1644281821UPC:9781644281826Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Entertainment & Performing Arts, MemoirsSize:8.70 x 5.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCCE7WPXS6
Mercy Fontenot ran away to the Haight-Ashbury at sixteen in 1965. In 1967, citing that the Haight was getting boring and she couldn't stay a hippie forever, Fontenot moved to Los Angeles, where she met Frank Zappa and Pamela Des Barres and fell in with the GTOs, an all-female band whose album Permanent Damage was released in 1969. The two songs she wrote for the band were eventually recorded by...
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