As you read this, hundreds of bands are on tour, criss-crossing the country. Some are travelling in tour buses, playing huge venues to thousands of people. Others are in beat-up Ford Econoline vans, playing in tiny clubs to no one. They all have stories about their tours. Some are funny...some are nightmares. This is a compilation of some of those stories.

Hell on Wheels: A Tour Stories Compilation

Arts & Photography

Music

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Iris Berry grew up in Pacoima, California and started writing poetry at the age of 7, when her primary influences were Dr. Suess, Jim Morrison and Allen Sherman. Ten years later, she arrived in Hollywood with aspirations of becoming a stripper. Instead, she ended up in several bands (The Lame Flames, Ringling Sisters, Pink Sabbath), several films (Border Radio, The Running Kind), and several bars (tending them). It was in the Ringling Sisters, with Pleasant Gehman, that Iris blended music and poetry, leading to the album 60 Watt Reality on A&M Records in 1990 ?New Alliance Records is set to release her solo spoken word debut Life On The Edge In Stilettos, produced by Harvey Kubernik, in late '94. Iris presently does readings in Los Angeles and San Francisco and is involved in fundraising for several L.A. charities.

Two Blocks East of Vine

Literature & Fiction

Iris Berry

Poetry

Poetry and prose from a feminist, activist, and performance poet.

Polishing the Bayonet

Belile, Elisabeth

Any Rough Times Are Now Behind You: Selected Poems and Writing : 1979-1995

Any Rough Times Are Now Behind You: Selected Poems and Writing : 1979-1995

Alvin, Dave

Princess of Hollywood

Gehman, Pleasant

King Planet: Short Stories and Poems

Abee, Steve

United States

The substitute teacher: forgettable, impotent, struggling to educate today's youth. In The Sub, Jimmy Jazz reports from the front lines of American Education, and it ain't pretty. A young man starting his teaching career maneuvers in and out of the classroom, observing the academic circus from kids smoking behind the gym to drive-by shootings, from explaining endoplasmic reticulum to counseling pregnant teenagers. As a writer bred on punk rock, Jimmy Jazz delivers a novel riddled with the woes and slang of the misspent adolescents he encounters. The melting pot of public education is on high boil. The sub steps up to the podium with confidence. The kids smell fear. He doesn't stand a chance.

The Sub: A Novel

Jazz, Jimmy

Unnatural Disasters: Recent Writing From the Golden State

Book Your Own Tour: The Independent Musician's Guide to Cost-Effective Touring and Promotion

Garo, Liz

Scream When You Burn: A Pound of Sacred Flesh from the Lap of Coffee Culture

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