Finding Medusa: The Making of an Unlikely Rock Star

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.

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Finding Medusa: The Making of an Unlikely Rock Star

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.

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Finding Medusa: The Making of an Unlikely Rock Star

Finding Medusa: The Making of an Unlikely Rock Star

by Donna F Brown
Finding Medusa: The Making of an Unlikely Rock Star

Finding Medusa: The Making of an Unlikely Rock Star

by Donna F Brown

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781732728561
Publisher: A3d Impressions
Publication date: 04/02/2019
Pages: 334
Product dimensions: 6.63(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Photos

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