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Title: They Can't Hide Us Anymore by Richie Havens, Steve Davidowitz, James Earl Jones, Ritchie Havens ISBN: 0-380-80378-X Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: the 60s are dead and this book proves it
Comment: Leafing through and then reading this book at length, I had to laugh. One particularly amusing and typical account was of RH's finding symbolic significance in an ancient Israeli fort's similarity to Close Encounters of the Third Kind's movie set. Man I get high just thinking about it. I just want to unread history, numb my powers of critical thinking, and go live in a patchouli-scented yurt when this otherwise amazing, astounding musician dumbs us down this way. Ah, to be like a child again: self-centered, uneducated (as the other reviewer put it) and able to lovingly turn the pages of this book without ever aging and having to learn from experience. The sad fact is that by extolling the virtues of childlikeness in this book, Mr. Havens censors the brain itself.

Rating: 4
Summary: Heavenly Havens
Comment: Thirty years after he appeared as the opening act at Woodstock, folksinger Richie Havens now takes the stage as an author. He insists this book isn't a memoir but an account of the "humorous, talented and incompetent people who occupy the entertainment industry."

Havens's tales of the people he met in New York City during the 1960s -- Bob Dylan, James Earl Jones (who also contributes a generous foreword), Joan Baez, Lou Gossett Jr. and others -- are full of nostalgic appeal. Such grace notes from Havens the historian, however, get overwhelmed by his penchant for pontificating -- on the environment, drug use, child-rearing, world peace, you name it. He grows wearisome fast. Warning: Havens takes astrology very seriously. He dismisses his absentmindedness as "an Aquarian trait" and describes a former business manager as a "very nervous type. He also was a Capricorn." As for John Lennon, the ex-Beatle "had a strong premonition that something was going to happen to him," reports Havens. "I know I did."

All of which raises one more question: Does Havens, a talented, likable musical performer, have any premonitions about his future in publishing? All in all an interesting glimpse into a life of contradictions and fun.

Rating: 1
Summary: Self-centered and Uneducated
Comment: I am a 17-year old senior who had to pick an autobiography to read for my AP English class. I'd heard Mr. Havens' music before and thought that this would be an interesting read. Not having grown up in the Woodstock generation, maybe I cannot fully appreciate all that Richie Havens tried to portray, but I feel I am a relatively open-minded person.

I felt that he (Havens) came across as incredibly self-centered and self-promoting. Maybe it's just me, but I feel that an autobiography should be less about one's accomplishments, which anyone can find out with a little research, but more about what makes someone the way they are. Havens talked a lot about all the wonderful things that he has done, which is fine, but it was all done in a self rightious tone.

Whenever he would begin to touch on his influencees or idols, it came across in a name-dropper sort of way. You know the type of people-- the ones that have to brag about who all they know. I think his meetings with the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, etc. were supposed to come across as humble and interesting, but I didn't get that impression at all.

I think that this could have been an incredibly interesting book. He is an amazing performer and has plenty of experiences and knowledge to share, but it could have been done in a more accessible and less narrative sort of way. But, what do I know? I'm just one of those rebellious members of Generation X.

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