Books written by musicians
i think the beatles are just a tad over rated (sarcasm)
btw... billy corgan of smashing pumpkins is coming out with a poetry book, i'm looking forward to it, sry random
I too am eagerly awaiting the Billy Corgan book. I really like the soundtrack and cameo he did for the movie "Spun."
[QUOTE=SnowWhite]Sting? Is that a joke?[/QUOTE]
Sting was an english teacher; I suppose that gives him as much right as anyone to write a book.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table
I'm not big on Sting as a solo artist, but I do like The Police; ego-maniacs that they are.
i really wish something was written about the rolling stones during the "paint it black era" it was the only REALLY good time in thier career and so much was happening. loved ones were dying, musicians slipping into deep depression states and numbing themselves with drugs to cope with the loss and such.
Very very interesting time and probably the only time period that i really like the band.
id love to read some factual jim morrison stuff, but nothing glamorizing i want it to show that he was a normal human not some crazy alien like the media portrays him. he had to have some normal moment.
also a bowie and iggy pop books would be awesome
I'm in the middle of Anthony Kiedis' autobiography, Scar Tissue, and I'm loving it. So honest about everything and all his emotion. It's a little brief in some places where you'd expect it to be deeper, but it's made up for in the rest. I have still got about half of it to go though.
I'd like to read Navarro's Don't Try This At Home afterwards and I've heard that Tommyland by Tommy Lee is good. I highly doubt it, but hey, it's worth a page or two.
Jerm to the Werm
i really didnt like the song scar tissue untill i realized it was about sitting in rehab locked up in a room staring out a window realizing that he almost died.
and the scar tissue thing being his track marks.
damn i didnt realize so many musicians had books,
but my beef is i think alot of famous people get around the whole ability to write or use good grammar just because of thier social status and thier marketability and make crap ass unreadable books. or thier book is so editied to fix thier crap ass grammar that it ends up being so distant and unpersonal from the person who wrote it.
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i really didnt like the song scar tissue untill i realized it was about sitting in rehab locked up in a room staring out a window realizing that he almost died.
and the scar tissue thing being his track marks.
damn i didnt realize so many musicians had books,
but my beef is i think alot of famous people get around the whole ability to write or use good grammar just because of thier social status and thier marketability and make crap ass unreadable books. or thier book is so editied to fix thier crap ass grammar that it ends up being so distant and unpersonal from the person who wrote it.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure some of the books are written by "Ghost Writers" too.
[QUOTE=phlegmatics] damn i didnt realize so many musicians had books,
but my beef is i think alot of famous people get around the whole ability to write or use good grammar just because of thier social status and thier marketability and make crap ass unreadable books. or thier book is so editied to fix thier crap ass grammar that it ends up being so distant and unpersonal from the person who wrote it.[/QUOTE]
Damn, I didn't realize that so many musicians have books. But my beef is, I think a lot of famous people get around their inability to write or poor grammar skills just because of their social status or marketability and are therefore allowed to make "crap-ass" unreadable books. Or their book is over-edited to compensate for their atrocious grammar that the result is hardly reminiscent of the person whose name is attached to the writing.
crap ass grammar beware.
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table
That would be interesting to read (Scar Tissue); I didn't know it was out. Even though the Chili Peppers have been around for a long time, I still don't see them as an "approaching middle age" band so to speak, even with a Behind The Music (puke) special. I hate those damn things.
Tarantula, a novel by Bob Dylan is craazzzzzzy.
It's messed up.
I almost bought Tarantuala the other day, is it good? Have you read his autobiography?
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table
tarantula was a cracked book, i didn't finish it yet but it reads as if it was written in the 60s...which it was. i didnt get a chance to get to his autobiography yet though i would like to very soon. his songs read like a fuckin book. bless his heart.
[QUOTE=Fake_Self]Sting was an english teacher; I suppose that gives him as much right as anyone to write a book.[/QUOTE]
ha ha.
If you're a fucking maniac Henry Rollins' [I]Eye Scream[/I] is for you.
The rest of his books I've always enjoyed. I recently opened [I]Solipsist[/I] for the first time in ages and still find it both identifiable and written at an exceptional level.
I've read john lydons book it was real whiny but i like him anyway i also have a signed copy of marainne faithfulls book i liked it, uh i tried to read anthony keidis' book and it was godawful he's an idiot. read nick caves novel ass saw the angel uh i don't know what else. Oh a book by lydia lunch but i forget the name, i didn't finish it anyway i left it on a plane, lots of sex in it.
Lennon's solo work is really great, and I like the early 70's stuff he did the most; he was the most political then, and seemed like he was in myth demolition mode about the Beatles, and particularly critical of Paul McCartney. Why hate Ringo? What did he do to you? Sure his music is forgettable, but he's a good rock drummer; tasteful, man.