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Every Second Counts

V. VAISANEN A. VATANEN

SAF Publishing Ltd.

Based in San Francisco, The Residents initially unleashed their daring attempts at self-promotion on an unreceptive world, producing music that seemed doomed to the furthermost outpost of anonymity. With titles like Third Reich and Roll and Duck Stab their records where some of the strangest and most uncompromising ever made. By the time full-scale notoriety arrived, The Residents kept their real identities a closely guarded secret. In this updated edition, Ian Shirley takes an outsider's view of their operations - a world where nothing is as it seems.

Meet The Residents: America's Most Eccentric Band!

Shirley, Ian

Humor & Entertainment

The Mothers of Invention were a band of anarchic, free-spirited, musically telepathic mavericks headed by the genius of Frank Zappa. Billy James recaptures the early years as remembered by those who were there; Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada, Bunk Gardner, Buzz Gardner and Don Preston. Fully illustrated, the book investigates the oddball humor that surrounded the Zappa entourage from 1964-1970 and presents a fitting tribute.

Necessity Is . . . The Early Years of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

Arts & Photography

James, Billy

Music

"Better to remember the good days via those magnificent early records, those mid-period hits, and this likeable volume of memoirs."-Record Collector "Original guitarist Michael Bruce's book successfully attempts to buy back credit where it was never given."-Mojo Michael Bruce was guitarist and keyboard player with America's ghoulish rock vaudevillians-the Alice Cooper group. As the melody man within the group's ranks he helped to write many of their classic early seventies tracks. Hit singles like "School's Out" and "Elected" were teenage pop anthems that perfectly encapsulated the decadent spirit of the times, while the band's love for theatrics ran the gamut of mock electrocutions, hangings and guillotinings, creating a larger-than-life personality of singer Alice Cooper. No More Mr Nice Guy follows the group on a journey from Arizona garage band, through years of being "the band you loved to hate," culminating in their eventual rise to worldwide stardom. Michael Bruce opens the lid on his years with the group, revealing the truth behind the publicity stunts, the dead babies, the drinking, the executions and, of course, the rock 'n' roll.

No More Mr Nice Guy: The Inside Story of the Alice Cooper Group

Michael Bruce

Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Taste

Stump, Paul

Written by Alice Cooper's guitarist and keyboard player, this is an anthology of the band that encapsulated the decadent spirit of the 1970s. Following the group on their journey from Arizona garage band to eventual rise to stardom, it reveals the truth behind the drinking and the rock 'n' roll.

No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Inside Story of the Alice Cooper Group

Bruce, Michael

There is no other contemporary artist who is so famously difficult, so apparently enigmatic, and so passionately, religiously loved by his fans as Morrissey.
However, as Mark Simpson argues in his wickedly funny and deeply sacrilegious portrait, Morrissey isn’t quite so enigmatic as he might at first appear. To understand this most private and sexually ambivalent of stars and his seemingly erratic behavior, one needs only to do one thing: Listen to him.
At once devil’s advocate and -counsel for canonization, Mark Simpson offers the finest psychological profile to date of England’s most intelligent, most misunderstood, most charming and most alarming pop star.

Saint Morrissey

Simpson, Mark

Literature & Fiction

“A sumptuous, high-art production, astonishing photographs. An essential book, a magnet to attract new listeners with its compelling field of gravity.”—Record CollectorDavid Keenan’s book miraculously weaves the history of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse with Wound into one fascinating narrative. Working almost entirely outside the framework of the music industry, all three bands have courted controversy, experimented with the fringes of danger and the occult, and have sold millions of records.Based on several years of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands’ personal archives, England’s Hidden Reverse is a unique document of England’s cultural underbelly.

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

Keenan, David

Musicians over the years have never been shy about letting their opinions be known - on their music, their fellow musicians, politics, religion, the media, their hotel rooms, the boredom of the tour bus or just about any other subject on which they choose to vent their spleen. Aubrey Malone has skilfully collected a wealth of razor-tongued quotes from classical, rock and roll, punk, jazz, operatic and classical musical put-downs.

Shooting from the Lip: A Compendium of Musicians' Invective, Bile, Vitriol and Wit (Poptomes)

Mallone, Aubrey

“[Ian] Abrahams does a bang-up job in getting under the skin of a fiercely independent and driven artist . . . an intriguing portrait of a modern musician harking back to the roots of the sounds that inspire him.”—Record CollectorStrange Boat examines the literary references, the personal growth, and the immersion in differing cultures that have informed Mike Scott’s songwriting. Exemplified by the hit single “The Whole of the Moon,” The Waterboys became synonymous with Irish folk music.Perfectionist, minstrel of the craic, now resident of a Scottish island retreat, Mike Scott’s life has been a tale of continual musical exploration entwined with an ever-evolving spirituality.

Strange Boat: Mike Scott & the Waterboys

Abrahams, Ian

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