EVOL! Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 What are you reading now? Kind of poking around to see if any other people here are heavy into rock books. Right now I am reading Geoff Emerick's book on the Beatles. Two of the last three books I read were rock biographies: Slash, The Dirt (the Motley Crüe book), and The Omnivore's Dilemma. Also, growing up I watched way too much tv. Trying to make up for all of the reading I should have been doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I've read books about The Stones. Doors, Alice Cooper and others I can't seem to recall at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I just finished "Now Discover Your Strengths." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 What are you reading now? Kind of poking around to see if any other people here are heavy into rock books. Right now I am reading Geoff Emerick's book on the Beatles. Two of the last three books I read were rock biographies: Slash' date=' The Dirt (the Motley Crüe book), and The Omnivore's Dilemma. Also, growing up I watched way too much tv. Trying to make up for all of the reading I should have been doing. [/quote'] Emerick's book is pretty interesting as he was there in Abbey Road studios for some of the fabs best and worst times. Clearly he loved working with Paul but then Macca is a workaholic He does come down kinda hard on George because how painstakingly slow he was to come up with solos. But I think being the youngest in the band and having to come up with a solo for a song written by two guys with the biggest egos ever isn't easy. Don Felder book Heaven And Hell my life with the Eagles I also very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowdiddley Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity by David Limbaugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 Don Felder book Heaven And Hell my life with the Eagles I also very good. Thanks. I'll have to add that to my list. While I am not much of an Eagles fan, I do dig Felder's playing and stories of band insanity. The Henley/Frey dictatorship is legendary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Faking It: The Search for Authenticity in Pop Music by Barker To Serve the Devil (Vols. 1 & 2) by Jacobs, Landau, & Pell The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Reich Pirates and Emperors by Chomsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six-string Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 reading kills! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 ...it kills ignorance, poverty, & tyranny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six-string Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 ...it kills ignorance' date=' poverty, & tyranny...[/quote'] oh the slaughter oh the humanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 LOL, I know, I know. I can't believe I typed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 Pirates and Emperors by Chomsky How is this book? I tried reading Chomsky in college, but it was way over my head. Now that I am older and wiser I'd like to get heavier into his stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laney1566 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Reading takes away from my Guitar time, so I don't do it.... Well, I do read the Bible...Over and over and over...... It's a good read!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Last year I read Clatons autobiography for a lit project.... It was pretty good... dont have too much experience with biographies though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiz Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Right now, I think my favorite rock book is 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' by Michael Azerrad. I just started reading Eric Clapton's autobiography. After that I want to read 'Sound Of The Beast: The Complete Headbanging History Of Heavy Metal' by Ian Christe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted October 9, 2009 Author Share Posted October 9, 2009 Right now' date=' I think my favorite rock book is 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' by Michael Azerrad. [/quote'] Hell yes. That is one of my favorites too. You might also dig Rock & Roll: An Unruly History by Robert Palmer. It's top on my list of re-reads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shnate McDuanus Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 The Quiet American by Graham Greene The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Just finished White Noise by Dom DeLillo. Great read. I'm really big on science fiction, especially Ray Bradbury, and many others--and this is my second read of The Martian Chronicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiz Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Hell yes. That is one of my favorites too. You might also dig Rock & Roll: An Unruly History by Robert Palmer. It's top on my list of re-reads. Thanks man, I'll check that out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I'm almost done with Choosing Death: The Improbable hisotry of death metal & grindcore....great book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAS44 Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Not related to music per se (the flow of words may help lyrics) but... I enjoy me some Hemingway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 If you're into sci fi, David Drake. There are others. But Drake has an exceptional concept of history and languages that makes his stuff exemplary. Much of it is "military" sci fi, but some is, in ways, a sci fi version of historic voyages and wars. The guy knows his stuff. And his Latin is a helluva lot better than my own. For youngsters I'd strongly recommend Aristotle's poetics and rhetoric; Plato's dialogs; Plutarch. Xenophon's Anabasis and the 1993 Harold Coyle novel The Ten Thousand. Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. Tao Te Ching in some translations is super, not so super in others. One should have read Homer by the end of one's high school years if not by the end of grammar school; Livy by the end of high school. A lot of Kipling is more than it seems. Hagakure and Go rin no sho, especially the latter since swordsmanship and guitar playing are the same thing with different instruments. Just a thought or two. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 I'm a little ashamed that I haven't read a book in a year. But I'm a Classics guy. Last thing I read was a few Doc Savage books from the 30's and 40's. Cool stuff, extremely light reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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