(Part 2) Best books about rock music according to redditors

I'm actually Duck's biographer!

I read in Saucerful of Secrets it was just because they were football fans in general and liked how it sounded, not because of LFC, itself. That's if I remember correctly. Great book, btw.

Have you read Cobain Unseen? https://www.amazon.ca/Cobain-Unseen-Charles-R-Cross/dp/0316033723 Pretty much 60-70% of that book is photos i haven't seen at that point, had probably seen like more than 100 or so pics at that time. Comes with all kinds of cool things like: a card that kurt made when he was young, a mask and a cd https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81jQ6l0IR4L.jpg

If you haven’t read Bono in Conversation it’s a great read

https://www.amazon.com/Bono-Conversation-Michka-Assayas/dp/1573223093

This book is just, well, the best.

You're coming into record collecting at a time when vinyl records are a much more specialized field than they were when some of us were first getting into records. 7" singles have always appealed to me more than LPs. Here are a few reasons why:

• When I was buying punk records in the early 1990s, a lot of it was 7" record based. Bands came together and broke up so quickly that they didn't always have enough time together to record an album's worth of songs. For more established bands like Rocket From The Crypt or Man... or Astro-Man? it was more about building hype between major releases so when they went on tour they wouldn't be playing for empty clubs.
  
  
• They were cheap. This doesn't seem to always be the case these days, but back when they sold for $4 a pop you could walk out of a record store with singles from four different bands for the same price as one full-length.
  
  
• They are cheaper to produce, so more obscure bands could afford to put them out. Some of these bands went on to make shitloads of cash and others were never heard from again, but they could afford to be a little more irresponsible with what they were releasing on 7" and as a result there was some fucking killer stuff released.
  
  
• It is waaaaay fun to browse a 7" record section at a record store. And since they were all so inexpensive you could afford to take a chance on something based off of art work or a band's name without making any serious investment. If your record buying experience is mostly online then it makes perfect sense that single shopping doesn't seem like much fun.
  
  
• Bands and labels were almost criminally irresponsible with the amount of time and effort they were putting into 7" art in the '90s. The DIY spirt was in full force and the resulting records were like little artistic masterpieces. They were also fun and easy to collect and trade. This is still the case if your local record shop is any good. If you're interested in seeing how over the top 7" record design was for a while there, there was a fantastic book put out a few years back by a company called Soundscreen Design
  
  
• What's the appeal in collecting? Either you get it or you don't. If you want to see the level of my personal 7" collecting mania check out my online visual archive of Man... or Astro-Man? singles.

https://www.amazon.com/Come-As-You-Are-Nirvana/dp/0385471998https://www.amazon.com/Heavier-Than-Heaven-Biography-Cobain/dp/0786884029/ref=sr_1_1?


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https://www.amazon.com/Serving-Servant-Remembering-Kurt-Cobain/dp/0062861506/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cobain&qid=1557248502&s=books&sr=1-1https://www.amazon.com/Journals-Kurt-Cobain/dp/157322359X/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=kurt+cobain&qid=1557248532&s=books&sr=1-2


https://www.amazon.com/Nirvana-Complete-Illustrated-Charles-Cross/dp/076034521X/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Nirvana&qid=1557248588&s=books&sr=1-3


https://www.amazon.com/Cobain-Unseen-Charles-R-Cross/dp/0316033723/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=cobain+unseen&qid=1557248615&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmrnull

I LOVE "Queen Unseen", by Peter "Ratty" Hince. Great stories, but not "tabloid-y". He was a roadie for Queen for years.

He wrote this which is a great read. He interviewed family and friends, and tracked some of the demos that were in it.

It might not be exactly what you're looking for but The Big Note has all sorts of extra information on just about every album and song in the catalog.

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Note-Guide-Recordings-Frank/dp/1554201462/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1557257426&refinements=p_27%3AUlrich%3BCharles&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Ulrich%3BCharles

By far my favorite- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0375502033/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467817195&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=the+phish+book&dpPl=1&dpID=51BJ5A3KZ9L&ref=plSrch

I read saucerful full of secrets. It was a good one. I'll have to check these out too!


Amazon link if interested
http://amzn.com/0385306849

Is this the book it was bundled with? That looks like something that could be turned into an awesome coffee table book.

Thanks!!
Books:

• https://www.amazon.co.uk/David-Bowie-Victoria-Broackes/dp/1851777377
  
• https://www.amazon.co.uk/David-Bowie-Album-Paolo-Hewitt/dp/1780974221
  
• https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781435129047/David-Bowie-Jeff-Hudson-1435129040/plp

Once upon a time... There were Spinners.

There's actually a good write-up in this book. I wouldn't recommend spending the money but if you have access to an .edu library you can probably get it on ILL.

https://www.amazon.com/Deadhead-Social-Science-Gonna-Learn/dp/0742502511/

Friend of mine traveled to see this last month, and I was super jealous. He said there were guards in every room, to keep people from taking cell phone pictures. Referring to how much stuff there was, he simply said "He kept EVERYTHING."

There's also a companion book (although, obviously, seeing it all in person is much better) here: http://www.amazon.com/David-Bowie-Museum-Contemporary-Chicago/dp/1851777377/

His autobiography is quite a good read.

Hi Michael, big fan here! Any reasons why your book is more expensive on Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/Perfume-Burned-His-Eyes/dp/1617756202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523290100&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Perfume+Burned+His+Eyes

OK, so when has any research been done on mega doses of LSD? I've done more than my fair share in the past, but I've never dosed more than 3 tabs.

The downvotes really aren't necessary because no one knows whether he would have become psychotic without the amount on LSD he ingested. If any are doubting that he was given I read about it in this book. But what the fuck do I know? I'm just old enough to have heard everything from Wish You Were Here forward when they were released.

I have the Annotated Book(http://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Annotated-Grateful-Dead-Lyrics/dp/074327749X) ... it is exactly the same content at the site posted above. It is a nice book to have around.

You can take a peek with the "look inside" feature from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radiohead-Complete-Chord-Songbook/dp/0571540007/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510843464&sr=8-1&keywords=radiohead+complete+songbook

Here's a few I've enjoyed not all maybe pertinent but all great reads in my opinion and inspiring:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Beatles-Recording-Sessions/dp/0600612074

http://www.amazon.com/Temples-Sound-Inside-Recording-Studios/dp/0811833941

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wouldnt-it-be-nice-charles-l-granata/1103812231?ean=9781556525070&itm=1&usri=9781556525070

http://www.mixingwithyourmind.com/

The book suggested by Myrad, Mixing Engineers Handbook is a great one too.

I found it on amazon yesterday, it’s a RH authorized book, and Stanley Donwood designed it

http://www.amazon.com/Home-Before-Daylight-Life-Grateful/dp/031230353X

this isn't exactly related but check this out:

http://www.uncg.edu/soc/faculty/r_adams/courses/fms108/



and her book

http://www.amazon.com/Dea
dhead-Social-Science-Gonna-Learn/dp/0742502511

The complete annotated grateful dead lyrics!
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Annotated-Grateful-Dead-Lyrics/dp/074327749X

Instead of creating another thread, by far and away my favorite Beatles book is The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.

Fascinating account of a kind of "day by day" recording history.

Positively 4th Street:
http://www.amazon.com/Positively-4th-Street-Fariña-Richard/dp/B008SMTSDM
Freewheel in' Time
http://www.amazon.com/Freewheelin-Time-Greenwich-Village-Sixties/dp/0767926889/ref=pd_sim_b_3/181-7152492-3180319
Chronicles Vol. 1
http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Bob-Dylan/dp/0743244583/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Man, that would be amazing. Now you've gotten my hopes up...

Edit: It looks like this is the songbook if any one else was interested.

Izzy and Stephen didn't have anything to do with the song writing, ergo they have no rights to the song's themselves. Also, I strongly suggest Slash's autobiography.Slash's autobiography

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

-Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude

I'd love to READ this penny book

Buy this book:

The Big Note: A Guide to the Recordings of Frank Zappa https://www.amazon.com/dp/1554201462/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_egXNBbHMCH6RP


Also listen to the albums Freak Out!, Overnite Sensation, Apostrophe, We're Only in it for the Money and Zoot Allures

Currently whipping through Harlan Coben's latest thriller, Missing You and Bob Dylan's Chronicles Vol. 1.

Up next, a few nostalgic re-reads I received from the reddit book exchange, Number the Stars and The Giver.

How about you? What are you reading and looking forward to reading?

Great discussion. Any discussion involving books is good stuff!

You know, George Martin considered this a stoned out throwaway track. I believe it was recorded in the middle of the night.

edit: sorry sorry, i just recalled that was the story regarding She Said.

If interested, I learned that from this book. Pretty amazing stuff: http://www.amazon.com/All-The-Songs-Beatles-Release/dp/1579129528

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queen-Unseen-Life-Greatest-Century/dp/1784187712

Awesome! Yea the Parish one is called “Home Before Daylight”. I think I’ve read it about 10 times haha check it out

Sounds like you've got the right attitude, which means you're on the right path.

Here's the Duck Dunn book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1495052923/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ep3EDbYZN4E5J

According to an Amazon review: "The book is nothing but hearsay and speculation, mixed in with a few quotes from Issac Brock."
Average 2 stars out of 5

Touchable sound http://www.amazon.com/Touchable-Sound-Brian-Roettinger/dp/0984302824

If you haven't read Cobain Unseen I highly suggest it
It's really creatively put together.

https://www.amazon.com/Deadhead-Social-Science-Gonna-Learn/dp/0742502511

Is it this book?

Right. I have this book about all of the Beatles songs (called "All The Songs"), and they make a note whenever the song was slower at the end than at the beginning, and it is always like 4-9 bpm slower, which is pretty crazy.

+ImNotThatIntoYou:

Hi Michael, big fan here! Any reasons why your book is more expensive on Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/Perfume-Burned-His-Eyes/dp/1617756202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1523290100&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Perfume+Burned+His+Eyes

Found it

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1573223093?ie=UTF8&tag=thepoaegg-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1573223093

This is a good read as well [Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain] (http://www.amazon.com/Love-Death-Murder-Kurt-Cobain-ebook/dp/B000FC1LNS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398873184&sr=8-1&keywords=Love+and+Death%3A+The+Murder+of+Kurt+Cobain)

He also talked all about it in his autobiography that was released in 2007.

He was definitely a victim of himself. He embraced the "madcap" role and all the things that it brought with it. He could have barred anyone getting access to him at any time, but he didn't.

I really think it was a combination of both. In his own downfall he was both perpetrator and victim. When they were slipping him the acid he was already well on his way down the road to ruin. That practice just expedited things considerably.

I first encountered this story in Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey. It's still hasn't been fully confirmed, but it has been corroborated by multiple sources...

give this a read... its legit not a crazy self published conspiracy thing ... several professionals say the forensic evidence rules out the possibility of a suicide, plus tons of other interesting info.. it reads like a thriller https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC1LNS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Cobain Unseen is a great book full of cool stuff like replica notes, sketches, tour tickets, etc from the band and Kurt. Kurt's Journals is a cool one too that is like reading his journals. Pretty much any Nirvana/Kurt book is a good read.

Here is a David Bowie coffee table book. It's entirely possible it's been reprinted with another cover.

You can gift her a decent book from Amazon on history of music band. An example is

https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Unseen-Life-Greatest-Century/dp/1784187712

It was this one. Found it in a library. A lot of it is personal reviews of the album, so keep that in mind: https://www.amazon.com/Modest-Mouse-Pretty-Good-Read/dp/0312356013

I liked Steve Parish's book, not sure I have a fave, I read them all and find something to like about each one.
https://www.amazon.ca/Home-Before-Daylight-Life-Grateful/dp/031230353X

Amazon US. Amazon UK.

Autogenerated.

Michael Imperioli wrote a book and is slated to do an AMA next month in /r/books

I'm sure it's no You Bark, I Bite, but the dude wrote a book and may show up to talk about it in a month. Thought it was worth noting.


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Hadn't seen the paperback cover design before - it's far better than the hardcover design for the same book.

I too was given this as a gift, but never really gave it a fair shot - maybe having already read The Phish Book by Richard Gehr and the band and also The Phishing Manual by Dean Budnick, what I saw retread a bunch of what I had already read before, and the writing didn't exactly impress. (I highly recommend the first book, by the way)

Maybe I should give it another shot to see what it says about 2.0 and the dawn of 3.0. The books I linked came out in '99 and '96, so there's a good bit of history not covered by those. But I think when I tried reading those in Puterbaugh's book I felt I already had an understanding of those events just because I was paying close attention to the band during those times.

He isn't talking about the meaning of the song here. He is talking about the complexity. And I didn't mean that is song is literal. I read this in All The Songs.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Beatles-Recording-Sessions-1962-1970/dp/0600612074

not sure if this is fun enough and/or if he likes to read about u2, but i really enjoyed this book.

I really liked this one.

Anyone really into Modest Mouse should read this book The author can be a little annoying at times but it's very informative of Modest Mouse's history up until Good News.

Also, this is a really good documentary of Modest Mouse while they were in the process of recording The Lonesome Crowded West.

EDIT: Spelling

It really doesn't help when a private eye she hired basically accused her of murdering or having a hand in murdering Kurt.