Music Books

[El Aguila]

Originally Posted by west country boy

Sylvia Patterson's I'm Not With the Band is an absolutely smashing book about life in music journalism. Mark Ellen's Rock Stars Ruined My Life! is not. It is shit.

Oh yeah. Sylvia’s book is great. Mingus’s autobiography is something else, too.

[TAK]

Originally Posted by west country boy

Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's Last Night a DJ Saved my Life: The History of the Disc Jockey and The Record Players: The Story of Dance Music Told by History’s Greatest DJs are terrific if you like that sort of thing, although the latter contains traces of Savile.

It's great book. I used to know Bill Brewster back in the day, he also worked on the early versions of WSC.

I was recommended Redemption Song about Joe Strummer yesterday. Anyone read it?

[El Aguila]

Originally Posted by west country boy

Just checked and the ones I have are Black Vinyl, White Noise and Ta-Ra-Ra-BOOM-De-Ay. He is a rascal.

I enjoyed Mötley Crüe's The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band when it came out but suspect I would feel a bit icky reading it now.

I have Black Vinyl, White Powder - are these two different books, or did I get a special version for by music execs?

[El Aguila]

Cowboys and Indies is good on the business side.

[Dal]

Simon Armitage, Gig

Roy Wilkinson, Do it for your Mum

[Stellavista]

Originally Posted by El Aguila

Cowboys and Indies is good on the business side.

Will check that out.

[west country boy]

Originally Posted by El Aguila

I have Black Vinyl, White Powder - are these two different books, or did I get a special version for by music execs?

Ha! No - it is my memory failing me between bookshelf and laptop. Perhaps I was thinking of that not very good Bowie record?

[SJ'sLoveMonkey]

Originally Posted by west country boy

Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton's Last Night a DJ Saved my Life: The History of the Disc Jockey and The Record Players: The Story of Dance Music Told by History’s Greatest DJs are terrific if you like that sort of thing, although the latter contains traces of Savile.

Both brilliant books

[SJ'sLoveMonkey]

My Life and The Paradise Garage by the late Mel Cheren is a good read as well

[Stellavista]

David Sheppard
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno

[west country boy]

Originally Posted by TAK

It's great book. I used to know Bill Brewster back in the day, he also worked on the early versions of WSC.

I dunno if I'm more impressed that you used to know Brewster or that he was part of When Saturday Comes.

[TAK]

Grimsby fan.

[weltklasse]

Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and postwar pop - Charles Shaar Murray

[weltklasse]

Originally Posted by TAK

It's great book. I used to know Bill Brewster back in the day, he also worked on the early versions of WSC.

I was recommended Redemption Song about Joe Strummer yesterday. Anyone read it?

Yep its not bad.

[Stellavista]

Guitar Zero - Gary Marcus

[Stellavista]

Jacques Brel -- The Biography by Alan Clayson

[Tomo]

Meet Me In The Bathroom, about the New York music scene in the early 00's was really good.
Mike Skinner's autobiography is a favourite, but I struggled a bit with the audiobook version (even though I read the book twice).
How Not To Run a Night, Peter Hook. About the Hacienda club in Manchesters.
Sylvia Patterson was good too. I'm sure there are a few more but those were the ones that immediately stuck out.

[chatham_eagle]

Cash: The Autobiography is one of the most depressing things I've ever read.

[El Aguila]

Originally Posted by Tomo

Meet Me In The Bathroom, about the New York music scene in the early 00's was really good.

I believe my company makes a fleeting appearance in that book, are Vampire Weekend in it?
We also feature more extensively in Dean Wareham's Black Postcards, which is well worth a read, Dean is a genuinely talented writer.

[kabbott]

Originally Posted by El Aguila

Do you know Tony, btw? He’s been on here a few times.

:I used to go to Palace games with Tony and some other mates in the late 70s, then I went to "uni" and we lost touch. I ended up in France and he in NY, I believe.