Donna F. Brown’s Finding Medusa takes you on a historical journey through the turbulent sixties in Chicago, the music, the drugs, as well as a personal journey through her darkest and brightest moments. From first co-founding the Chicago based rock group, Medusa, and waiting 40 years for the release of their LP, First Step Beyond, Medusa finally secured a place in music history. The second incarnation of Medusa1975 produced the new album Rising From The Ashes, and led to several tours.
At the heart of Finding Medusa is a story of resilience and survival. With adept control of the pen, Donna F. Brown shares intimate details of a 40-year journey in a memoir that records important events of the ’60s she experienced, including the 1968 Democratic Convention riots in Lincoln Park in Chicago, in which she saw friends and strangers alike, lying beaten and bloody. She takes the reader through her experiences with drugs, the rock scene in Chicago in the 1970s, run-ins with authority, her difficult home life, a nursing career, her training as a mime with Marcel Marceau, and ultimately a return to Medusa and the music where it all started.
Finding Medusa may make you laugh or make you cry, but you will most likely find, in Donna’s story, deep connections to your own.
Cuprins
Foreward
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1 – All in the Family
Chapter 2 – High School Years and Beatlemania
Chapter 3 – High Adventures in Lincoln Park
Chapter 4 – Electric Theatre Days
Chapter 5 – Welcome to Chicago
Chapter 6 – Down in Old Town
Chapter 7 – On Becoming a Nurse (Or Worse)
Chapter 8 – Goodbye to Ma
Chapter 9 – All Power to the People
Chapter 10 – Medusa Rising
Chapter 11 – Medusa Ignited
Chapter 12 – The Nursing School Years
Chapter 13 – Running in Paradise
Chapter 14 – Getting Hitched
Chapter 15 – Heading West
Chapter 16 – Breaking Free
Chapter 17 – The Wacky World of Entertainment
Chapter 18 – Getting Re-educated
Chapter 19 – Meeting the Master
Chapter 20 – Can We Please Keep it Down to A Low Roar?
Chapter 21 – Heading for the Hills
Chapter 22 – Daisy Lady’s Demise
Chapter 23 – Rainier Revisited
Chapter 24 – Second Chances
Chapter 25 – Another Mountain to Climb
Chapter 26 – All Together Now
Chapter 27 – Gaining Momentum
Chapter 28 – On the Road Again
Chapter 29 – Beginnings and Endings
Chapter 30 – Heading South by Southwest
Chapter 31 – All The World’s a Studio
Chapter 32 – California Adventures
Chapter 33 – Band Blues and Moving On
Chapter 34 – Domino Effect
Chapter 35 – High Expectations
Chapter 36 – Down On the Farm
Chapter 37- Big Bend and Beyond Epilogue
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
References
Quote Sources
About the Author
Photo History
Despre autor
Donna currently lives in Pearce, Arizona, with her husband, Gary, and her faithful Sheltie companion, Toby. They have been traveling around the country in their RV since the summer of 2018, after selling their house in Colorado where they lived for 26 years. During their travels, they have played several gigs, the most recent at South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX. Donna and Gary always enjoy jamming with fellow musicians they meet along the road.
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