Minze:
The Hammer of the Gods(Led Zeppelin)
Walk This Way(Aerosmith)
any book 'bout Elvis
CFTH
any book 'bout the blues
Johnny Cash's autobiography

What about you,doode or doodette?

Crazy From the Heat
No One Here Gets Out Alive
12 Days on the Road-The Sex Pistols and America
Heroes and Villains
Diary Of a Madman

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Glenn:
Crazy From the Heat
No One Here Gets Out Alive
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WOW&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;these books are incredible!!!!!!
Good call,Glenn Falls,CANADA!!!!!!!!!!!


[This message has been edited by Loons (edited November 09, 2000 at 06:00 PM).]

I've learned my lesson the hard way. I used to throw so much stuff out, and I threw away a ton of books I shouldn't have like;

Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Blackbird
Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns n' Roses

Can't think of any others, but that's probably best because if I could remember them all I'd wanna kick myself. Now, I don't throw anything out.http://www.vhforums.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif

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Frank Zappa:The Real Frank Zappa.
Brian Jones


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2711 Don't ever drink anything you can't see through.

Great call on the Zappa book GGB!

The Charles Mingus book bio is pretty eye-opening!

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RLRR LRLL

I just finished reading Paul Mccartney's "Many years from now" and what an eye opener. any Beatle fans out there should check it out because it sheds so much light on the inner workings of a true songwriting machine. He gives a lot of background on the origin and meanings of songs. He said "Got to get you into my life" was written about marijuana. There's all kinds of neat tidbits like that in there. I've also read "Hammer of the Gods" as well as "No one here gets out alive" and "Clapton". Great books all!

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"Way down yonder in Louisville lived a cat named Big, Bad Bill..."

Just finished reading a book called Nankering with the Rolling Stones by Jimmy Phelge. Jimmy lived with Keith, Mick and Brian in a flat called Edith Grove before they made it big in the early sixties. Great book.

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The only thing I've read was a little from"Crazy from the heat" but thats about it man.

I don't read books, ... http://www.vhforums.com/vhlforum/smilies/rolleyes.gif


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*Broken Down 'n Dirty Dressed in Rags*

*This is Home, It's the Only One I Know*

"It's all about the posts!" -NB on #1000

Another really cool book is The Rolling Stones Complete Recording Sessions by Martin Elliott. It's a song by song breakdown of songs (studio, live, bootleg) done between January 1963 and November 1989.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Loons:

The Hammer of the Gods(Led Zeppelin)
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That book was great!

I also read a book written by Mic Fleetwood all about Fleetwood Mac's history!
I really enjoyed it, has anybody else read it?

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by homeunit:

I also read a book written by Mic Fleetwood all about Fleetwood Mac's history!
I really enjoyed it, has anybody else read it?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yeah, I've read that book, it's pretty cool. It's sad (and pathetic) that the dude sold all those records and ended up bankrupt. Of course, he got to sleep with Stevie Nicks in the late 70's, so he's got nothing to complain about.http://www.vhforums.com/vhlforum/smilies/wink.gif



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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by GirlGoneBad!:
Frank Zappa:The Real Frank Zappa.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Thanks for the recommendation, I took this book out of the library and I'm about halfway through it. It's a really cool book, Frank's got an unusual sense of humor.http://www.vhforums.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif



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LOL I opened this thinking it would be music instructional. I was gonna say Troy Stetina's speed mechanics. http://www.vhforums.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif

The Bluesmakers--Samuel Charters

Deep Blues--Robert Palmer(not the Addicted to Love dudehttp://www.vhforums.com/vhlforum/smilies/biggrin.gif)

Chasin' That Devil Music--Gayle Dean Wardlow

Feel Like Goin' Home--Peter Guralnick

CFTHhttp://www.vhforums.com/vhlforum/smilies/biggrin.gif


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Eat Us and Smile ONE TIME FOR THE PEOPLE!!!!!!

"I'm goin' to the gypsy nah and have my fortune told
I believe somebody is tryin' to steal my jelly roll..."--Son House

Check out these a here blues: www.fatpossum.com (http://www.fatpossum.com)

"So shovel the coal,let this rattler roll..."--Hank Snow

Dig the blues,mofos:www.catfishrecords.co.uk (http://www.catfishrecords.co.uk)

Hey, I've used MANY things from the Stetina book as lesson material for students....but I gotta tell ya, in the late '90's and early 00's, the kids aren't too fond of it.

I've read 3 Mozart biographies: Solomon, Einstein, and Sadie. Interesting if you're into that sort of thing.

Lately, I've been struggling through Arnold Schoenberg's "Structural Functions of Harmony". This book is NOT for most people; it's DRY, arcane at times, and quite ridiculous in all its grandeur. Gives me a headache, though. When I finish it, I think I should be given a PhD just for 'getting it'.

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I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Somebody was askin' about good blues books 'round this hood nah nah...well well well...Yez Yez...Yes Yeah!!...Well alright....

The Dirt- Motley Crue. Great read.

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The KEWLEST read ever...:thumb:

Most of the above ive read..all good.. i need to find that Mccartney one though..

also one that wasn't mentioned :"I hope i die before i get old" about Townsend and the who..its an incredible read..talk about genius..Townsend was it.

Another fun one, though it's fiction, rather than (auto)biography is "The Commitments" by Roddy Doyle. The movie that came out in 1991 is based on the book. Lots of fun Irish cuss words!

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I just finished Wardlow's book based on recommendations here. Great book!

What I really took away from the book was a sense that the early blues singers were professionals. I suppose I always assumed that these guys were just farmers, or in some cases slakers, that played blues as a hobby. I enjoyed reading about how they tried to show each other up for corner/juke joint space.

It seems that Wardlow goes on a bit much about King Solomon Hill, but I guess it was a coup for him.

Anyone else have any recommendations for other good books on pre-war blues?

Anyone else have any recommendations for other good books on pre-war blues?

"Escaping the Delta," by Elijah Wald is a good one, as well as "Deep Blues," by Robert Palmer

Bessie Smith's biography is a very good read too. Sorry I can't recall the author though.

"The Country Blues". By Samuel B. Charters. Published by Da Capo Press. 1975. (originally published 1959).

"The Blues Makers". By Samuel B. Charters. Published by Da Capo Press. 1991. (Originally published in two volumes as: "The Bluesmen" (1967) & "Sweet Showers Of Rain" (1977)

"Blues Off The Record. (Thirty Years Of Blues Commentary)". By Paul Oliver. Published by Da Capo Press. (1984)

"Searching For Robert Johnson". By Peter Garulnick. Published by Dutton. (1992)

Don't know if they're still in print, but they're all PWB specific, and well worth searching for.

Bessie Smith's biography is a very good read too. Sorry I can't recall the author though.


The author is Chris Albertson, a regular contributor to the Organissimo jazz forum ("Christiern").

The second, revised edition of his Bessie Smith biography is the one to get.

A classics is Paul Oliver's "The Story of the Blues". I prefer the first edition.

"Searching For Robert Johnson". By Peter Garulnick. Published by Dutton. (1992)

A must: Bruce Bastin's "Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast".

And then there's Lawrence Cohn's "Nothing But the Blues", but I never got through that book.

deep blues, by robert palmer, is a very very good book.

I don't think the Charters books are that essential anymore. Of course, they are very important works, but they're mainly of interest now as a means of seeing how blues "scholarship" and our knowledge of pre-war blues has changed. He was a pioneer, but much of what he said is dated or inaccurate.
Paul Oliver's books are really interesting. Sometimes a little boring to read, but he covers subjects that no one else does. I think "Songsters and Saints" is essential, and I also enjoy one called "Screening the Blues." "Story of the Blues" is okay, but it's more of an overview and doesn't delve as deeply as some of his other books.

Paul Oliver's books are really interesting. Sometimes a little boring to read, but he covers subjects that no one else does. I think "Songsters and Saints" is essential, and I also enjoy one called "Screening the Blues." "Story of the Blues" is okay, but it's more of an overview and doesn't delve as deeply as some of his other books.

http://www.mvbs.org/biblio.html

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"Jim Morrison: Legend, Life and Death," by Stephen Davis is tremendous.

Anyone read any good rock n roll books lately??

Best book ever? Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis. Folks- I would not steer you wrong. Go out and get this book today!

Don't bother with "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead the Dirty Life and TImes of Warren Zevon" the title is the best part

It's good and insightful in bits and pieces, but you have to slog through a lot of rather dull and disorganized journal entries to get to the good stuff

Shame is Warren deserved a great book

Well, I love to read period, but my two very favorite books music related are "The Rough Guide To Heavy Metal", and "The Complete Headbanging History Of Heavy Metal".....lots of VH in that one!!!

Although I have not personally read it, Don Felder's Heaven And Hell My Life With The Eagles 1974-2001 deserves to be left on the shelf according to several people who have read it.

Seems as the whole book serves no other purpose other than to go on about how he deserves equal credit for songwriting duties. Even our own MIA chefcraig said something along the lines of it being nothing more than a personal axe grinding session.

Not a book, but if you want to check out an awesome documentary on music rent or buy on DVD Tom Dowd: The Language of Music.

Tom Dowd was a producer and engineer who pioneered many aspects of multi-track recording and produced SO many classic artists and songs your jaw will hit the floor.

I like the "Cats Revenge," by Claud Balls ;)

Neil Peart's books are pretty good. I read Ghost Rider a couple of months ago and am currently about 1/2 way through Roadshow. They offer great insight to his life. I am not sure what made me start to read them, but am glad I did. Besides books already mentioned I did enjoy Life on Planet Rock by Lonn Friend. I wasn't really into Rip magazine back in the day, but that man has some pretty sweet stories about Metallica and GNR.