A Day In Their Life

Few things go hand in hand as well with music as books about music? I currently have a small selection of nice music themed books on sale in my eBay store for your choosing. I have to say that music biographies are a very strong seller for me and they are hard to keep in stock. I'm adding new inventory when I run across something nice, so if you are interested in seeing what my current selections are I'd suggest you visit regularly.

A Drink With Shane MacGowan  A wonderful biography of MacGowan written by his long-time partner, Victoria Clarke.  The structure of the book is more like a long conversation with MacGowan rather than a chronological  telling of his life.  It's very easy to get lost in Shane's words and I often found myself "hearing" his voice as I read his words.  You can almost hear his sly laughter in many of the stories.  An excellent biography that probably has more in common with Cash than the average music biography.

 Do I Come Here Often? Black Coffee Blues Pt. by Henry Rollins, signed.  

I've been a fan of Rollins since the 80's and I think his writing is somewhat overlooked.  I would love to see some of his mid-80's magazine work published again, especially the back page articles he did for Spin Magazine in it's earliest days.  One of the old back issues that I still have in my collection features his article about Madonna and the music industry titled, "Desperately Seeking Something"

He had a great energy in his writing that was a definite carry-over from his Black Flag days and from living in the tool shed behind Raymond Pettibone's parents house. 

Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties by A.E. Hotchner

Hotchner's book does one thing exceptionally well that I feel is  overlooked.  He is able to capture the darkness that seems to envelop rock and roll musicians who suffer an untimely, early death.  Whether Brian Jones tempted his own fate of "death by misadventure" or if there was a conspiracy involved, what is very clear is the dark undercurrent in his life at the time of his death.

While Blown Away is less stylistic than the writings of John Gilmore, the tone and subject matter are very much in his area.  I've also found the book to be a good companion piece to the Maysles documentary "Gimme Shelter".




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