This looks interesting:
https://landofhopeanddreams.co/
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link
There was some more talk about Dave Marsh in the boring classic albums thread, not very celebratory.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 01:51 (two years ago) link
Various potentially interesting ones- Springsteen talking to Nona Hendryx; I think the guy Marsh is talking to on one spotlight conversation is a guy who wrote a decent Sam Cooke bio
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
I signed up for the Creem one (with Chuck Eddy) and the one after that.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
Never heard any follow-up about Marsh after those Zoomcasts last year--his non-appearance made you wonder about his health--but a friend sent this along today, set to come out in August.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kick-Out-the-Jams/Dave-Marsh/9781982197162
― clemenza, Sunday, 22 January 2023 03:25 (one year ago) link
I don’t have satellite radio, but he has continued to host his weekly shows over the past year or so. Definitely looking forward to the book; hopefully there’s no overlap with Fortunate Son.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 22 January 2023 12:00 (one year ago) link
A new collection (came out of those Zoomcasts, I think):
I'll likely buy it at some point.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:23 (seven months ago) link
Just got the book yesterday, haven't dug in yet, but I'd already seen a number of these pieces. They date from 1984 through 2019 (? I think) and had previously appeared in Musician, Addicted To Noise, Rolling Stone (he wrote a piece or two long after he'd left), Rock & Rap Confidential, and The Nation, among others. The postscript is by Pete Townshend, and it's kind of hilarious. It also explains why Dave's 2002 piece excoriating Pete for saying "I am grateful for American military might" doesn't appear.
(full disclosure: I emailed Pete's post to Dave, who wrote a column in response, posted to a now-defunct site whose name escapes me. It ultimately led to Pete's site getting briefly shut down, and all posts and comments were removed once it came back up.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 August 2023 13:54 (seven months ago) link
https://slate.com/culture/2023/08/dave-marsh-new-book-best-music-critics.html
Kind of fluffy ode to Dave Marsh re new book collection and older efforts too
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 August 2023 14:22 (seven months ago) link
Marsh on Tina Turner's Acid Queen:
The material also seems ill-chosen, given the enormous body of work from which to choose. For instance: Why Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love,” the original of which relies almost entirely upon the dynamic interplay between guitar and voice to succeed, rather than Bad Company’s “Feel Like Making Love,” which, while expressing the same blatant sexuality, at least possesses a real melody?
The four Ike Turner originals on side two are at least written in an idiom that the singer comprehends. If the best of them, “Baby — Get It On,” relies upon vocal discourse between the duo reminiscent of nothing so much as Sonny & Cher in blackface, it’s still not nearly so pathetic as this once-great singer pushing herself through a series of songs without either desire or understanding.
Yeeeeesh....
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 05:42 (six months ago) link
http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781982197162/kick-out-the-jams-9781982197162_xlg.jpg
Kick Out the JamsJibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music WritingBy Dave Marsh
Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned critic Dave Marsh. Ranging from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain, from Nina Simone to Ani DiFranco, from the Beatles to Green Day, the book gives an opinionated, eye-opening overview of 20th century popular music—offering a portrait not just of an era but of a writer wrestling with the American empire.
Every essay bears the distinct Dave Marsh attitude and voice. That passion is evident in a heart-wrenching piece on Cobain’s suicide and legacy; a humorous attack on “Bono’s bullshit;” an indignant look at James Brown and the FBI; deep, revelatory probes into the work of underappreciated artists like Patty Griffin and Alejandro Escovedo; and inspiring insight into what drives Marsh as a writer, namely “a raging passion to explain things in the hope that others would not be trapped and to keep the way clear so that others from the trashy outskirts of barbarous America still had a place to stand—if not in the culture at large, at least in rock and roll.”
If you want to explore the recent history of pop music—its politics as well as its performers—Kick Out the Jams is the perfect guidebook.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 7 September 2023 00:50 (six months ago) link
a book investigating why collections like this 100000% never use prog bands as touchstones would be interesting
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 7 September 2023 01:01 (six months ago) link