Your favorite music books/bios?

GB281198

I'm about 100 pages in and it's really good!

brianlux

GB281198 said:

I'm about 100 pages in and it's really good!

Good to know, thanks!

GB281198

Just finished Mike Campbell's book and I can't recommend it enough. It's definitely one of the best rock biographies I've read

Loujoe

Sweet thx. Will see if my library has one^^

Wobbie

I want to get this:

Wobbie

Wobbie said:

I want to get this:

started reading this. really good. the first and second years may have been peak Lolla. I was looking at the recent lineups….I’ve literally never heard of 90% of the acts and the “headliners” are no one I’d want to see. oh well, I guess that’s what the kids are listening to these days.

Loujoe

I will read that too. ^

PJ92

My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman
Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein

brianlux

Bill Flanagen was one of my favorite writers back in the days when I subscribed to the now (sadly) gone Musician Magazine.  So coming across his U2 at the End of the World, I picked it up and dove right in.  

Flanagen traveled and moved around closely with U2 during the Achtung Baby and Zooropa years and documented the band's progress during those years of change in their music.  The insights into the personalities of the band members and others in their circle, and the many stories about the band and the music are fascinating and often revealing.  It's a big book (525 pages), making it all the more enjoyable.  

Loujoe

PJ92 said:

My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman
Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein

Read the bottom 2 of those. Both excellent. ML was sad for me and exposed some of my 'heros' as drug addict jerks, but that's the way it was and some lived through it. He made it longer than most. 
Carrie B was more of a fun read for me as I remember it.
Great choices

Wobbie

brianlux said:

Flanagen traveled and moved around closely with U2 during the Achtung Baby and Zooropa years and documented the band's progress during those years of change in their music.  

pretty epic years.

brianlux

Wobbie said:

brianlux said:

Flanagen traveled and moved around closely with U2 during the Achtung Baby and Zooropa years and documented the band's progress during those years of change in their music.  

pretty epic years.

For sure.  Funny thing is, I was told about U2 very early on by a guy I knew, Paul, who played guitar in a Bay Area band called The Young Doctors.  He saw the band when they first came to the U.S. and were hardly known here.  I ran out and got Boy and just loved it to pieces. So I've long been a fan of the first phase of U2 from Boy through War for a long, long time.  Achtung Baby was huge, but I didn't like it because I loved the more lean sound of the earlier records.  It wasn't until this year, after reading Bono's memoir Surrender, that I really sat down and gave the Achtung Baby album a fair change. After a few listens, it finally clicked... damn, this is a great record!  Talk about missing out for years!  

On to Zooropa next! 

JOEJOEJOE

Wobbie said:

I want to get this:

Planning on reading this when we go to Maui next month.