What abt the tell-all by ex-gf of Lindsey?
― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis), Friday, 27 April 2012 21:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whats the best Kinks Bio?
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dave Davies' one is not too bad. At one point he talks about how he was having sex and he damaged his penis.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Remembered Colin Harper's Dazzling Stranger which is mainly the Bert Jansch bio but also covers the Edinburgh & London folk scenes.
Also really enjoyed Rob Young's Electric Eden which has a lot of great stuff on the 60s Britfolk stuff as well as the earlier folk revival.
Grit, Noise and Revolution by David A. Carson was pretty great on various Detroit acts. Does give several bios of people while covering the area's scene from the mid 50s to mid 70s.
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
jon savage's OOP authorized kinks bio is really good.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jon Savage did a great Kinks book in the mid 80s think its called The Official biography. not sure if it's still remotely available.
Reminds me I really enjoyed Paolo Hewitt's the Young Mod's Forgotten Story on The Small Faces. Took me about 10 years to manage to get hold of it.
Thinking of books that took me forever to get the Einsturzende Neubauten history Hor Mit Schmorzen was greta, MAy also be long gone & I think there's been a new official one since.
― Stevolende, Friday, 27 April 2012 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just finished The Fallen and yes, it does feel like a blog-to-book conversion but it's a damn good book on The Fall.
Anyone else read Kristin Hersh's Rat Girl? Really liking it so far.
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp The Jon Savage Kinks bio is really well done, but maybe could use a little distance, being officially authorized and all. On the other end of the spectrum, however, is John Mendelsohn's embarrassing The Kinks Kronikles which features transcriptions of heated phone conversations between John and a former Kinks manager on the subject of whether the latter would like to be interviewed for the book.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 28 April 2012 00:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Reading Ray and Dave Davies' autobios back-to-back is amusing for the ways in which they're very differently nutty.
Have had Hersh's under the Parodoxical Undressing title for a year or so but not gotten to it.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
So it doesn't really seem like their is a definitive Kinks bio currently in print. A bit odd.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 28 April 2012 07:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a day by day Kinks chronology thing, if that's any use. I picked mine up very cheaply which might mean it was going out of print though.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 April 2012 09:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I did find one released last year by Nick Hasted called You Really Got Me but still for such a major band there is a bit of a dearth. I wonder if thats cos the Davies bros are difficult - no one seems to have much good to say about Ray. Maybe I'll have to read his and Daves books.
― Hinklepicker, Saturday, 28 April 2012 11:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was thinking there was one just released, thought I saw reviews of one in the UK monthlies recently. must be that Hasted one then?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 28 April 2012 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
A few lovely anecdotes about drinking champagne during the Tusk sessions and doing coke with Stevie in the car.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 April 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I started reading the Zeppelin one today. Every time I come across the name "Mickie Most" I want to throw that shit out the window.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just finished one that's so boring (reviewed under embargo so can't name it) that it makes me wonder if I ever want to read a single-artist bio, as opposed to a memoir, again.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Smoothed: The Epic of Rob Thomas
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Puttin' On Duritz: The Counting Crows Story
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Okay I can't top that.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just recently read Buddy Guy's forthcoming When I Left Home which contains a lot of interesting stories - unfortunately, it's written in Negro dialect. I'm not joking. Half the time it reads like a transcript of an old Amos 'n' Andy routine.
― 誤訳侮辱, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
kudos tyler. That's killer.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha, i feel like i stole it from someone, so kudos to that person I've forgotten.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Duff McKagan's memoir on G'N'R is pretty great!
― Poliopolice, Monday, 4 June 2012 17:56 (1 year ago) Permalink