Great new book eh Badge?

Been bending the pages of my new copy a lot.

Once again Bob, Super job!

ed

Traditional........speak softly and play through a big blonde amp. Did I mention that I still like big blonde amps?

Play Like Elvis – How British Musicians Bought the American Dream

A marvellous book, about young British musicians from the 50s through the70s and how they battled to get on the rock n roller-coaster.
It’s about cheap guitars, amps that give out electric shocks and “why do the chords in this book sound nothing like the record?”.
There’s loads of great anecdotes; like the attempts to get that elusive echo and reverb…one deluded soul believed a friend who said that echo came from using really, really, long wires. So he wired his guitar lead to the chain-link wire fence of his parent’s house, then wired the fence to his amplifier…boom…

Lots of Hank and Bruce stories in there too

Under Tiberius by Nick Tosches

http://www.satanspilgrims.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Satans-Pilgrims/8210228553
https://satanspilgrims.bandcamp.com/
http://www.surfyindustries.com

The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin.

I am not obsolete, I am RETRO....

Thoroughly enjoying John Blairs "Southern California Surf music 1960-1966". I am also enjoying his illustrated discography of Surf music.

Anyone recommend any other history/biography/band books on Surf music. I have already read "Surf Beat"

I am not obsolete, I am RETRO....

Nokie - Thanks, I will check it out.

I am not obsolete, I am RETRO....

CrazyAces wrote:

Someone like that could easily rest on their laurals, almost turn into a nostalgia act but not John.
Pretty cool.

I have only one Fogerty tale but it was kinda like one of those "meant to be" things. He was playing West Berlin when I was there (this was after Tom had left & they were 3-piece). Some upstart named Rod Stewart was supposed to open, but he & crew & vehicles had apparently gotten all jammed up with the East Germans at the checkpoint over some paperwork or something (with the VoPos it didn't take much since their inferiority complex was institutionalized).

We thought we'd be there all night. It was my birthday, and I also had the boss's secretary's daughter with me. Fogerty took the position that, basically, "we're supposed give a show at such & such a time, that's when we're going on." So the big headliner played first and played a reeeeeeallllly loooonnnnnnng show, everything they ever did practically. Turns out much of that night from the Berlin show was on the live album that followed from that tour (which I still have). By the time Stewart showed up lots of people were leaving (and the secretary's daughter was safely tucked in, so that bridge didn't get burned). I will never forget that night.
Livin' large.

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

DISCLAIMER: The above is opinion/suggestion only & should not be used for mission planning/navigation, tweaking of instruments, beverage selection, or wardrobe choices.

Badger wrote:

CrazyAces wrote:

Someone like that could easily rest on their laurals, almost turn into a nostalgia act but not John.
Pretty cool.

I have only one Fogerty tale but it was kinda like one of those "meant to be" things. He was playing West Berlin when I was there (this was after Tom had left & they were 3-piece). Some upstart named Rod Stewart was supposed to open, but he & crew & vehicles had apparently gotten all jammed up with the East Germans at the checkpoint over some paperwork or something (with the VoPos it didn't take much since their inferiority complex was institutionalized).

We thought we'd be there all night. It was my birthday, and I also had the boss's secretary's daughter with me. Fogerty took the position that, basically, "we're supposed give a show at such & such a time, that's when we're going on." So the big headliner played first and played a reeeeeeallllly loooonnnnnnng show, everything they ever did practically. Turns out much of that night from the Berlin show was on the live album that followed from that tour (which I still have). By the time Stewart showed up lots of people were leaving (and the secretary's daughter was safely tucked in, so that bridge didn't get burned). I will never forget that night.
Livin' large.

That's a great story, Wes, thanks for relaying it. I love that "Live in Europe" album with CCR working as a three piece. If I have a complaint about CCR, it is that Fogerty wanted the live show to be as exacting as the album. I prefer when bands change it up in live performances. As a three piece, John was forced to change things up a bit. They had more of a raw edge and more energy to make up for the lack of rhythm guitar on that live album. He also throws in some cool extra licks on "Lodi" and "It Came Out of the Sky". -Marty

"Hello Girls!"

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kick_the_reverb wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/Smugglers-Cove-Exotic-Cocktails-Cult/dp/1607747324

I'm intrigued by the "Cult of Tiki" part of this title, Ran. -Marty

"Hello Girls!"

My summer reading bag has a couple of books I've been intending to read for a long time. I'm about halfway through Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms" now and have "The Sun Also Rises" tucked away in the bag. Nothing like a day on the beach with a good book under the shade of an umbrella... cooler of bottles of water at hand.

Happy Sunsets!