The Committee to Keep Music Evil Forum

Yeah, I agree. This book is not at all what it claims to be. However, if you want a good Stones book, go and track down a copy of "Exile on Main St: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones." It's all about Villa Nellcote and the recording of Exile in the humid, dank basement of the the villa. It's a great read. That would have been a great time to be a fly on the wall!

Also interesting is "All Hopped Up and Ready to Go" by Tony Fletcher. It's a very broad look at the music scenes that developed from 1927 through 1977 in New York City. Like I said, it covers quite a bit, but it's interesting in how it ties the socio-economic situations of the various burrows to the music that emerged out of them from jazz to the wall-of-sound to glam and hip hop.

-D

that's a shame because this is my favorite nabokov work. i'd be curious to know how you read it? by that I mean did you read the end notes while reading the poem simultaneously? i read the entire poem first without checking the end notes, and then read the end notes and occasionally flipped back to the poem for reference. it worked quite nicely. actually, you can just read the end notes on its own without the poem and it was still a fun read. but then again, i've been on a meta-narrative binge this past year and this was a great example of that style.

currently reading my hero again, because i can never get enough david mitchell:

this was recommended to me recently... gonna give it a shot:

another bullshit night in suck city - how can you not read with a title like that!

David Mitchell rules

Just finished

The City and The City


and

Lunar Notes



(looooong time lurker, first time poster)

just finished this. awesome and indeed better than 'ask the dust.'



starting this

just finished this. wish i had blood's psychedlic cowboy to accompany it...



starting this tonight



mennonitedan, welcome from out of the shadows of lurkdom. the city and the city looks boss. i've put it on my reading list.

for my 100th post, my current favorite book-

This is a great read, especially having just spent the last week wondering around a lot of the places mentioned in it...

The chapter on Alan Titchmarsh is priceless.

Only just seen this post. Will certainly check out the Exile book & probably Hopped Up as well.

Cheers.

Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson. Probably the 6th time I've re-read it.

yeah, wandering... some places allow you that.