Memoirs From The Road To Everywhere Vol I The Road To Rock n Roll,"reads like a good road movie." Blue Power.com reported: "for anyone wanting a life in the entertainment business, this book is a must read."
Author Sebastian Jaymes takes the reader through the many changes of scene and situation in his life. He relates the story of his personal journey from childhood to fulfilling his lifelong yearning to "see the world on someone else's dime."
Born the eldest of seven siblings in a large loving family, he begins the journey through childhood with an immigrant Grandmother's arrival in America by way of an arranged marriage. It is a childhood filled with pleasant family memories growing up "where the suburbs end and the countryside begins."
In early adolescence the situation changes traumatically. Leaving Catholic School, he is forced to face harsher realities in the public school system. There he encounters the first in a lifetime of bullies, as well as the racial divide of the early 1960's Civil Rights era.
A not so special teacher in Jr High School, a darker individual, casts a negative light on his family life. But in those years he also encounters two very special African American teachers, positive role models. It is by their inspiration that he blossoms. He also finds and cultivates passion and imagination through close friendships with like-minded individuals.
"High School Hell" was an inner city high school in an urban setting. It was a "prison movie" in a school fraught with serious dangers and mistrust by teachers, students, and hired handlers alike. When High School ended abruptly he entered the workforce as a factory laborer. "It felt like a life sentence." There he confronted the fact that he may die a bitter man in mundane sameness, never fulfilling his lifelong ambition to see the world.
Then he undergoes a mental and spiritual rebirth, and through a twist of fate, his best friend becomes a famous rock star and generously points him toward the freedom he has always craved, leading to his first job as a rock n roll "equipment manager" for two top name bands at the dawn of the rock n roll touring Industry. ("We weren't even called roadies then")
Flying high through the 1960's counterculture, he
pays his dues with an up and coming band on a
full-tilt ride through the bush leagues until he
lands in Los Angeles at the top levels of the
entertainment industry.
Volume I is just the beginning of a young man's
lifetime journey on a path through the suburbs
and the inner city, through Rock n Roll, upward
on "The Road To Everywhere"
About the Author: Sebastian Jaymes grew up on "The North Coast of America," the Great Lakes, near Lake Erie.
As a live show producer he has put together shows on exotic islands, in castles, archaeological ruins, and other exotic or dangerous locales in Europe, Asia, Japan, Russia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Alaska, and elsewhere around the world.
At a very early age Jaymes decided he wanted to see the world. He began as a boy, exploring his home region. In the 1960's, at age 19, through a twist of fate, he was able to realize that goal as a roadie, then tour manager for two hit rock n roll bands touring the U.S.
"We weren't even called roadies then. In those days we were called equipment managers."
In the late 1960's and early 1970's Jaymes worked with an up and coming regional band that took him on a wild ride through the last days of the 60's counter culture.
Finally achieving his goal of settling in California in the early 1970's, he found himself working in the mainstream of the Los Angeles entertainment industry, at first as a touring roadie, tour manager, or a PA on network TV variety shows, then as a production manager. He moved on to tour management of various celebrity artists, touring the world over and realizing his childhood dream to see the world on someone else's dime.
"My book: Memoirs From The Road To Everywhere Vol I The Road To Rock n Roll is about growing up on the North Coast, yearning to see the world, and how I got my first job in entertainment with a hit rock n roll Band."
Switching gears again, for the next fifteen years he hired out as a freelance producer or technical director of large corporate events and shows of all kinds in many exotic locales around the world.
"I wanted to work and continue traveling internationally, so in between producing assignments I took on freelance projects as a technical director or production manager for corporate, TV, and live shows of all kinds all over the world"
As freelance opportunities all but dried up in the economic meltdown of 2008, he became more involved with USO as a production manager for celebrity entertainment events and shows of all kinds at military bases and in combat zones around the world.
An avid reader, he has a passion for Archaeology and US Civil War history.
He has visited numerous US battlefields and archaeological ruins around the world, on his own dime.
Jaymes lives in Southern California. He writes books and screenplays.
