From the vortex of 60s counter-culture and into the void...

During the mid-60s heyday of free love, acid tests and draft dodging, Hammond Guthrie hangs out in LA and San Francisco brushing shoulders with the myriad of West Coast freaks and beatsters who were present at the birth of the hippie movement.

After marrying, he uproots to England and immerses himself in the world of International Times, London's UFO club and the nascent Time Out. A sojourn in Amsterdam leads Guthrie towards a promising career in the art world, but by the early 70s the hippie dream goes wrong when his wife starts taking free love a little too literally and they both become entangled in a web of drug smugglers imprisoned in Tangier.

Along the way Guthrie encounters the Buffalo Springfield, Del Close, Max Crosley, Richie Havens, Hube the Cube, Carmen McRae, Allen Ginsberg, Hoppy Hopkins, William S Burroughs, Kenneth Allsop, the Amsterdam art scene, The Parade Bar and the twilight zone of Tangier.

FIRST EDITION - HARDBACK

ISBN 0946719 54 3

Publication date: October 2002

224 pages - illustrated.
Price UK £20 US $25

AS EVER WAS

Hammond Guthrie

About the author:

Hammond Guthrie is a writer and artist (his work is represented by the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco). He has contributed many articles to magazines and journals including Exquisite Corpse Magazine, Jack Magazine and Soma Literary Review.

"The first page is so marvellous it should be published as is."
Richard Kostelanetz

"You have in Hammond's book - what may be one of the quintessential freak histories."
Michael Simmons, LA Weekly/ Rolling Stone

"It brought back memories I've never had!" Gary Faulkerson

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