Other Reviews

The Road To Woodstock: Michael Lang

Brian Robbins July 29, 2009 No Comments

The book truly is the story of the path leading to the event as we’re 170 pages into the story before we reach the morning of August 15, 1969. It’s all good reading, though. It doesn’t matter if you’re one of the several million who claim to have rolled in the mud at Woodstock (actual crowd estimates still bounce between 450,000 and 500,000), you’d still have no way of knowing all the amazing events that led up to the most famous 3 days of music the world has ever known. (Digging a series of new wells on Max Yasgur’s farm and laying out 14 miles of water pipe was just one little detail.)

Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music: by David N. Meyer

Doug Collette January 22, 2008 No Comments

David N. Meyer has such colorful characters to work with in his eloquent exhaustive biography of Gram Parsons, Twenty Thousand Roads becomes an uncanny reflection of his subject.

Ronnie : Ron Wood Autobiography

Ross Warner December 18, 2007 No Comments

On stage, Ron Wood and Keith Richards often appear inseparable. While Sir Mick and The Human Riff may be responsible for creating the bulk of the Stones' massive catalog of songs, Ronnie has served as Keith's guitar foil while giving those tunes life in concert longer than either Brain Jones or Mick Taylor ever did.

Unbroken Chain: The Grateful Dead in Music, Culture, Memory: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 11/16-11/18/07

Doug Collette November 28, 2007 No Comments

Jerry Garcia would chuckle to think of a multi-day event hosted by a major American university designed to dissect Grateful Dead culture and history. No doubt too as the weekend long series of events progressed, he would become more than bemused by the proceedings.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You’ve Ever Heard: By Tom Reynolds

Lauree Guyer August 17, 2006 No Comments

I Hate Myself and Want to Die is an amusing book written not just for collectors of kitsch and lovers of lists. Author Tom Reynolds has chosen the 52 most depressing songs you've ever heard and explains in detail why each deserves to be on the list.

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix: by Charles R. Cross

Nathan Rodriguez August 16, 2005 No Comments

Add Charles R. Cross to the short list of authors that can seemingly produce definitive biographies at will.

CBGB & OMFUG : Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock

Shane Handler June 20, 2005 No Comments

hat New York City and CBGBs was the true home of the punk underground. CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock will have you reminiscing down memory lane the next time you see a kid wearing a CBGB shirt at the mall or at a Green Day show. Let