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Deadheads Remember Englishtown '77: The Largest Gathering in New Jersey History
Deadheads may disagree on which Grateful Dead concert was their best ever, but no one would argue that their performance at Englishtown on Sept. 3, 1977, was something special. For Jim Daley, who saw the band for the first time on that date, it...- $12.99
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John Cohen: Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream
Photographer and musician John Cohen's final testimony: a lyrical flow of images from his 60-year careerA Wall Street Journal 2020 holiday gift guide pick One cold sunny morning in December 2018, Gerhard Steidl drove from New York City to see John Cohen (1932-2019)--photographer, filmmaker...- $30.00
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Conversations with Phantoms: Exclusive Interviews About the 1978 TV Movie, Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (hardback)
All Wrongs Will Be Righted With This Book Or maybe, some people will still not like its subject matter In the late 1970s, the makeup and costumes wearing rock group Kiss conquered American album charts and stormed the nation's arenas, putting on hundreds of...- $36.00
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Confessions of a Lighthouse Keeper
A memoir that's more than an insider's account of a mid-eighties Australian independent band. Confessions of a Lighthouse Keeper provides multiple insights into the broader music and entertainment world-in a country that has mixed feelings about the arts. It's atmospheric, light and full of...- $32.95
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Melodic Rock Soloing For Guitar: Master the Art of Creative, Musical Lead Guitar Playing
Master the Art of Rock Guitar SoloingLearn to solo with a method that's jam-packed with examples, exercises, techniques and improvisation strategies.Melodic Rock Soloing for Guitar is a unique guitar method because it contains all the tools you need to become the ultimate guitar soloist....- $19.99
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Drum Wars: Realistic Drum Solos Unfolded
(Percussion). Drum Wars takes drum solos of Carmine and Vinny Appice and breaks them down into easily digestible sections. By viewing the included video footage of the solos at 75% and 50% of their normal speed, students can see, hear, and thoroughly understand each...- $26.95
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The Twenty Seven Club
It's 1994. The music industry is mourning Kurt Cobain, Right Said Fred have re-emerged as an 'ironic' pop act and John Major is the country's prime minister. Nothing is as it should be. Emma, a working-class rock music fan from Hull, with a penchant...- $10.99
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Cleveland's Rock and Roll Venues
Cleveland has always been a music town. And thanks to Cleveland deejay Alan Freed, who booked the first venue for rock enthusiasts, music fans have never lacked for places to go see their favorite acts perform in person. This book honors the astute owners...- $23.99
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Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend
In the vast, sparsely populated area of West Texas known as the Big Bend, life takes place on a different scale. The nearest neighbor can be forty miles away, perhaps located not just in another town but another country, the border historically less obvious...- $45.00
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Fandom and the Beatles: The ACT You've Known for All These Years
More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group?...- $35.99
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Bob Dylan in the 80s: Decades
No period of Bob Dylan's six-decade career confounds fans more than the 1980s. The singer began the decade with Saved, the second in a trio of explicitly religious records, and a tour in which he declined to play his older songs because of concern...- $21.95
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The Clash: All the Albums All the Songs
THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK FROM THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS. Established in 1976 at the fore London's punk rock insurgence, The Clash would outlast their peers while creating some of the most influential albums in rock 'n' roll history. Author Martin Popoff...- $39.95
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Ranking the '80s
From "Upside Down" to "Straight Up"; "Off The Wall" to "Hangin' Tough" and everything in between. Ranking the '80s is the Who's Who and the What's What of pop music in the video decade.It's the complete reference. All the singles and all the albums,...- $29.95
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Grunge Seattle
Chronicling the intertwined lives of members of core grunge bands, Grunge Seattle reveals the origins and inspirations of the grunge movement. Delve into the collisions between personalities and egos, artists and corporations, suburbs and cities, obscurity and fame. Explore the caf s, apartments and...- $40.99
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The Ballroom: The Melbourne Punk and Post-Punk Scene
The Ballroom is a brutally frank memoir of what has become known as one of the most pivotal, fascinating and influential periods of Australian musical and cultural history. The story is illustrated with original flyers and candid photos, some never before seen or published.Author:...- $19.99
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Vendor: Donna Kozloskie
Cat Power's Moon Pix
"Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Like all legends, the aura surrounding them is an impression, a sensory feeling of unreliable memories: layers of stories become histories. Through...- $14.95
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Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
Prior to his tragic death in 2010, Ronnie James Dio had been writing his autobiography, looking back on the remarkable life that led him from his hometown in upstate New York to the biggest stages in the world, including the arena that represented the...- $34.99
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Blur: Every Album Every Song
Formed as shambolic art-punk four-piece Seymour whilst attending London's Goldsmiths University, the rechristened Blur released their debut album Leisure in 1991, marking them as promising indie upstarts in thrall to the voguish sub-genres of baggy and shoegaze. Following a radical stylistic shift on sophomore...- $21.95
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Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and Ac/DC's Back in Black, Updated Edition of the Definitive Biography
An affectionate, honest tribute now updated with new revelations about the rock and roll icon who helped make AC/DC an international sensation The second edition of Bon: The Last Highway includes a brand new 16-page introduction. Fink examines... New information from French media that...- $29.95
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The Sonic Swagger of Elvis Presley: A Critical History of the Early Recordings
Elvis Presley's clever manipulation of his numerous interests remains one of the music world's great marvels. His synthesis of country, rhythm & blues and gospel resulted in an inventive mixture of hair-raising rock & roll and balladry. This book focuses on the music of...- $39.95
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The Who: Concert Memories from the Classic Years, 1964 to 1976
Most know that the legendary English rock band the Who performed concerts at ear-splitting volume, smashed their instruments, and became one of the world's most influential groups. The period from 1964 to 1976 saw the creation of such classics as "My Generation," "Pinball Wizard,"...- $59.99
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Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness, identity aesthetics and monstrosities...- $56.95
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Piece of My Heart
In 1972, Stonehill Books published David Dalton's Janis, a multimedia extravaganza that incorporated interviews, quotes, photographs, lyrics, Rolling Stone clippings, sheet music, a record of rapping and singing, and prose as wild and moving as Janis's performances. Piece of My Heart is a reconstruction...- $21.99
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Vendor: Greil Marcus
Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014
From the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his "Basement Tapes" the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called "Real Life Rock Top Ten." It has...- $24.00
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The Beatles as Musicians
Given the phenomenal fame and commercial success that the Beatles knew for the entire course of their familiar career, their music per se has received surprisingly little detailed attention. Not all of their cultural influence can be traced to long hair and flashy clothing;...- $34.99
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Musical Language of Rock
In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase structure and form, and emotional expression. The Musical Language of Rock puts forth...- $46.99
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Backstage Pass
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author and front man and rhythm guitarist of KISS grants fans an all-access backstage pass to his personal life and shows them how to pursue a rock 'n' roll lifestyle of their own, offering hard-won advice from a...- $27.99
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Rock Critic Law: 101 Unbreakable Rules for Writing Badly about Music
Straight out of his beloved Twitter feed @RockCriticLaw, acclaimed rock journalist and author of the classic books Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana and Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad turns his trenchant eye to the art of rock writing...- $23.99
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The Complete Beatles Songs: The Stories Behind Every Track Written by the Fab Four
A lavishly illustrated, rollicking account of the real people and events that inspired the Beatles' songs, now fully updated and revised by renowned Beatles expert and music journalist Steve Turner--the definitive analysis of the music and influences of the world's most successful and popular...- $40.00
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Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
From the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.John Lydon is an icon--one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead...- $18.99
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Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century
NPR Great Read of 2016From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including...- $22.99
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Jimi Hendrix: The Intimate Story of a Betrayed Musical Legend
The genius we never understood. . . . The man we never knew. . . . The truth we never heard. . . . The music we never forgot. . . . A revealing portrait of a legend by a close and trusted friend.Author:...- $21.99
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The Rock Music Imagination
The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, that is, creative expression, fantastic imagination, and contemporary fiction about rock. Robert McParland analyzes how...- $39.99
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Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park, to Born to Run, to Born in the USA
An unprecedented look at a very young Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, from the group's creation and early New Jersey days to their meteoric rise and seminal Born in the USA tour, in photographs almost all not previously published. David Gahr (1922-2008)...- $17.98
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Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture
Death Metal is among the most despised forms of violently themed entertainment. Many politicians, conservative groups and typical Americans attribute youth violence and the destruction of social values to such entertainment. The usual assumptions about the Death Metal scene and its fans have rarely...- $19.99
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Misunderstood - The Brian Molko Story
Misunderstood looks behind the eyeliner to reveal the true story of one of the most notorious rock icons of the 21st century. Follow the reckless wild child turned devoted father as he replaces drug binges and erotic exploits with Buddhist meditation and kids' birthday...- $22.99
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Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Extraterrestrial Connection
Whether you're a UFO skeptic, believer, or merely a rock music fan, Alien Rock takes you on a fascinating and irreverent journey exploring the extraterrestrial stories of your favorite rock icons. From Elvis to the Beatles and from Michael Jackson to Marilyn Manson, countless...- $21.99
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Vendor: Dire Straits
Sultans of Swing - The Very Best of Dire Straits
(Fretted). Authentic transcriptions in notes & TAB of 16 hits: Brothers in Arms * Calling Elvis * Love Over Gold (Live) * Money for Nothing * Romeo and Juliet * So Far Away * Sultans of Swing * Tunnel of Love * Walk of...- $29.99
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Sounds Like Teen Spirit: Stolen Melodies, Ripped-off Riffs, and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
Sounds Like Teen Spirit provides hundreds of pairings of songs that appear to have "borrowed" their melodies from earlier songs. Readers wil discover the music that influnced the songs of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and many more....- $19.95
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The Walrus Was Paul
"Paul is dead."It was the late 1960s, the Beatles hadn't toured since 1966, and some truly bizarre indications began appearing, pointing to the unthinkable: Paul McCartney had been killed in a car accident and replaced by a look-alike. The Walrus Was Paul unearths every...- $16.99
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The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerce
In 1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the music business in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press, no such thing as artist management -- literally no rock-and-roll business. Today the industry will gross over $20 billion. How did...- $18.00
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The Day the Music Died
Their lives were cut brutally short...yet the legacy has on lived on for four decades. They were three of rock 'n' roll's brightest stars, touring together in a music revue that was as grueling as it was magical. Dilapidated school buses that frequently broke...- $14.95
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Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: Their Lives and Music
GALLAGHER MARRIOTT DERRINGER & TROWER THEIR LIVES AND MUSICAuthor: Dan MuiseISBN-10: 0634029568ISBN-13: 9780634029561Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 10.86h x 8.60w x 0.75d- $30.00
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As Time Goes by: Living in the Sixties with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Brian Epstein, Allen Klein, Mae
The classic memoir with a new foreword by Jon Savage Derek Taylor's iconic memoir is a rare opportunity to be immersed in one of the most whirlwind music sensations in history: Beatlemania. The reissue of the book has come together with the help and...- $14.95
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Vendor: Kenneth Womack
The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles - the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists....- $32.99
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Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation Volume 1
Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through...- $29.95
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Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has...- $27.95
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The Rock History Reader
This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes new readings across the volume, with added material on the early origins...- $68.95
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: 20th Anniversary Edition: The History of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
5th June 1999 was the first time Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros took to the stage @ The Leadmilll, Sheffield.The History of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: The legendary Clash frontman Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros complete history from their first gig through to...- $24.99
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Who Wrote the Beatle Songs?: A History of Lennon-McCartney
Who Wrote the Beatle Songs: A History of Lennon-McCartney is a book in the tradition of Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Recording Sessions, Walter Everett's The Beatles as Musicians, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, and Tim Riley's Tell Me Why --it surveys all of...- $35.00
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