Playing for a Piece of the Door: A History of Garage and Frat Bands in Memphis 1960-75 is a candid history and discography of over one hundred bands who recorded at least one record in Memphis from 1960-75. From nationally charting groups like the Box Tops, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, the Gentrys and the Hombres to long-forgotten high school rockers who cut a record, had their fifteen minutes of fame, and then faded away, every Memphis garage band is included. Includes many unpublished photos as well as a complete listing of all band members and discographies of each band. Though countless books have been written about Memphis Music--including Elvis, Stax, and the blues, this genre of Memphis music has never been exhaustively touched upon until now.

Playing for a piece of the door: A history of garage & frat bands in Memphis, 1960-1975 by Hall, Ron (2001) Paperback

Biographies & Memoirs

Hall, Ron

Arts & Literature

Shangri-la Projects

The Memphis garage rock yearbook, 1960-1975

Arts & Photography

Music

Sputnik, Masked Men, &amp; Midgets: The Early Days of Memphis Wrestling features approximately 400 images from 1950s until the heyday of the late 1970s of Memphis wrestling. Fans of wrestling will see never before published images of the Swedish Angel, Mario &amp; Spider Galento, Sputnik Monroe, Jackie Fargo, Len Rossi, Don &amp; Al Greene, Tojo Yamamoto, Jerry the King Lawler, Bill Superstar Dundee, Tommy Wildfire Rich, &amp; Handsome Jimmy Valiant--just to name a few of the regional and national superstars that came from the rich Nick Gulas wrestling territory. Before cable tv destroyed regional wrestling scenes, Memphis had one of the most active, popular, &amp; lucrative wrestling enterprises anywhere. Ron Hall captures the emotion of the ring; the wild looks of the chiseled wrestlers, the babyfaces, the heels, the masked men (and women!), the wrestling bears, the women of wrestling, and the midget wrestlers; and everything else in between this amazing, no-holds-barred world of wrestling. With an introduction by Jerry Lawler, a bonus cd of songs long out of print by wrestlers like Sputnik Monroe, Jackie Fargo, Len Rossi, and Handsome Jimmy Valiant, as well as reproductions of old wrestling posters and 45s, Sputnik, Masked Men, and Midgets: The Early Days of Memphis Wrestling has something for every wrestling fan out there. This beautiful coffee table book is the coolest book published on Memphis wrestling ever!

Sputnik, Masked Men, & Midgets: The Early Days of Memphis Wrestling

Ron Hall

Sports & Outdoors

Oversized Softcover book provides a visual history of Memphis concerts in 175 pages. Includes unpublished photos, concert ads, posters, and flyers, tickets, backstage passes, inside stories, and the discography of all advertised concerts in Memphis from 1955-1985. Covers the birth of rock 'n roll in the Sun and Meteor days through the folk-blues revival in the early '60s through the Soul Explosion of the mid-'60s with Stax and Hi to the arena rock era of the the '70s and the oncoming new wave punk explosion of the late '70s and early '80s.

Memphis Rocks: A Concert History 1955-1985

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