Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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Titled in tribute to the author’s favourite album, by quintessential Californian psychedelic group Quicksilver Messenger Service, Happy Trails boasts a cosmic jacket to match and a subtitle that tips you a wink. Death, drugs, disease, demons, deportation, dashed romance, and, for this man of the eastern US, unlikely sanctuary in the north of England: “My story is pretty warty,” he warns MARTIN ASTON. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We assist them in setting their prints free for future generations to access and appreciate them and their historical value.

What I also noticed is that, at the start of his career, pretty much everyone was wonderful and everyone got on, but as time went by, and his projects became less successful, it was always someone else’s fault, but never Andrew’s.

To mark the anniversary, we tracked down the man who actually got the band’s signatures on a recording contract. I’d already put Lemmy in touch with American artist Joe Petagno who’d done artwork for Dr Feelgoods’ Malpractice and Joe came up with the first version of the now familiar skull logo.

We mixed the tracks in January and by then Lemmy was coming in to see me every day wanting this or that because Doug had pulled out. It was too soon for what he had in mind but I was excited about starting something new with him just as at the point when I was losing Hawkwind.My friend told me about it and I rang up the guy and said ‘I’d love to work for a record company, I’ll do anything’. At that point I knew the album we had was definitely a dead duck because two thirds of the recordings weren’t good enough and it was a different band anyway, so even Dave Edmunds’ tracks were now redundant. Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business (ISBN 147462359X), a memoir co-written by Lauder and Mick Houghton, was released in 2023. Lauder's far-sighted recruitment of Amon Düül II and Can lit the fuse for the 'krautrock' explosion of the early 1970s (a term, incidentally, that he loathed); and Lauder effectively god-parented the pub rock boom a couple of years later.

It was Lauder who conceived the then-unique 2 x 10-inch packaging that hallmarked Man’s Christmas at the Patti album. Shindig Happy Trails gives the reader a window into a charmed life that most of us can only dream of.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

The only quibble I have is that there is no separate plates section , photos are embedded in the text, so the resolution isn't great. All of which is here… but again, it’s the Liberty/UA years that are at the heart of the book because that, you get the impression, is when Lauder was at his most unfettered. Both of the companies didn’t get on as Liberty was very West coast, Los Angeles based whereas UA was very East coast. A few years later I was in Los Angeles and I went to the Rainbow Rooms and there at the bar was Lemmy. Spin Magazine Happy Trails is a book for music historians and crate diggers, particularly lovers of the blues from the '60s through to the '00s.After a couple of meetings, he said ‘I don’t know what you’re going to do but you’re so keen to do it so you better come onboard’. Lauder’s far-sighted recruitment of Amon Düül II and Can lit the fuse for the “Krautrock” explosion of the early 1970s (a term, incidentally, that he loathed); and Lauder who effectively god-parented the pub rock boom a couple of years later.