Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard was primarily known, and rightly so, as a major playwright and actor. He was also -- if only briefly -- a rock musician, and had some interesting associations with major rock performers. He was a drummer in the Holy Modal Rounders for their third album, the crazed, cacophonous Indian War Whoop on ESP in 1967. Holy Modal Rounders mainstay Peter Stampfel has recalled that Shepard is not on the LP's cover shot because Shepard, as a statement against the hippie era, had gotten a crewcut at the height of the summer of love. ESP owner Bernard Stollman thus would not put ...