The Dirt- musician bios

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Post by Leaf »

Started reading the Motley Crue bio last night... man, Nikki Sixx, you are one full of yourself mother!! Still, it's agood read... funny, but while I 've had moments of living in filth for rock, I was never commited enough to subcomb to ripping people off on a daily basis in the name of rock... call me crazy I suppose... Dana and I read the book aloud together last night for two hours!! That was kinda cool...just kicking back, reading to each other stories of depravity and insanity... we just got to the part where Motley Crue starts gigging... looking forward to more chapters tonight!
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Post by Rabid Garfunkel »

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain
Interesting account of the genesis of the NY Punk scene, from Iggy in the late '60s up through the Ramones and the Blondie days of the early '80s. Heavy, heavy drug use will give you a contact high. And it's a perfect companion book for...

Rotten: No Irish - No Blacks - No Dogs by John Lydon with Keith and Kent Zimmerman
Focuses on the punk other side of the pond, with bile aplenty for Malcolm McLaren. Senor Rotten dictates an entertaining account.

Sting: broken music by that Sting guy
Kinda wanky, like an LP long Yes guitar solo, but with a personal recounting of childhood to present day. Enjoyable, though very, very slickly produced prose. Felt a little dirty for having paid money for it.

Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
Goddamn. This is dense goodness, like a chocolate covered chocolate ball wrapped in chocolate. Period history and the music tied together with a personal descent into and out of and into madness. Utterly fascinating and heartbreaking.

Tom Waits Wild Years by Jay S. Jacobs
Damn. More goodness. Good goodness. Good stuff.

...saw Jello Biafra do 5-odd hours of spoken word last night, still fairly well knackered. Fun stuff, amazing recall and memory on that man.
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Post by j$ »

My only rule for music biogs is - you don't have to like the band to get pleasure from the book.


'Wreckers of Civilisation' by Simon Ford. Not only a great book (about Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle) which I urge you all to read, but also the most beautiful artifact in itself. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 6?v=glance

'Tape Delay' by Charles Neal. Interviews with everyone from Sonic Youth to DAF. Essential. http://shopping.msn.com/search/detail.a ... Id=1916968 (this is not the best edition though - the original that came bound with a purple card band is beautifully industrial)

'Everybody Loves a History' by Kevin Eden - the definitive Wire Book. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/custom ... oding=UTF8

'Not Simply Divine' by Bernard Jay. Highly subjective and its veracity has been questioned, but still the best and most revealing glimpse at what powered the mighty Glen Milstead. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/custom ... oding=UTF8

You should have them all already, of course.
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Post by Eric Y. »

j$ wrote:you don't have to like the band to get pleasure from the book.
quite true. i feel the same way about interviews and such too. each month i read guitar world from cover to cover, whether i am interested in the bands being discussed or not, because there's usually plenty of interesting stories and tidbits to be gleaned.
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Post by Caravan Ray »

Once while browsing through the Kiribati National Library on the island of Tarawa, I came across The Gary Glitter Story by George Tremlett. Curiously, for reasons known only to the I-Kiribati librarians, it wasn't held in the Biography section of the library - but was catalogued under 'General History', next to a biography of Bertrand Russell. Weird.

Anyway - I was hoping it would be full of sex and drugs - but it wasn't. It was written in 1975 and aimed squarely at his pre-teen fans. I learnt that Gary was a warm and wonderful human being who answers all of his fan mail personally, loves children and small animals and is a keen fisherman. It said Gary would be remembered as "a true superstar of the 70's". It didn't say anything about how he liked to collect kiddie-porn and would one day end up in jail for it. Do You Want To Touch Me There? indeed - dirty old man.

I don't recommend anyone search this out to read it - it was pretty crap. I only remeber it because a wrote a half-page review of the book for Te Uekera, the Kiribati national newspaper. And the review was published. It's funny the things you do when you are stuck on a small island in the Pacific with very little to amuse yourself.

I think I'm wandering off topic....
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Post by Eric Y. »

Caravan Ray wrote:I learnt that Gary was a warm and wonderful human being who ... loves children and small animals
oh man that's funny :oops:
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Post by jute gyte »

lords of chaos is a very nice and unique account of the history and idealogy of black metal.
choosing death is a less interesting but still nice account of the same for death and grind.
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