Best biography by musicians

[gorilla with a shotgun]

Just read Guns N Roses Lies and Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis. They were both pretty good.

 

[DB]

I've read scar tissue... thats pretty crazy.

 

[fish eel]

Forget what it's called, but I read a terrific one about Stevie Wright.

Also, another good read is Last of the Decadents, which is about Brian Jones

 

[HevyDevy]

Motley Crue - The Dirt.

Case closed.

 

[fish eel]

Motley Crue - The Dirt.

Case closed.

shame the stories and the book is better than anything the band produced in the studio....

 

[millersnose]

does it contain makeup instructions?

 

[carcharias]

Forget what it's called, but I read a terrific one about Stevie Wright.

Also, another good read is Last of the Decadents, which is about Brian Jones

It is called .."sorry". I have read it twice...what a fall from grace.

I have read heaps .

The Dirt was pretty good.
Scar tissue was probably better.
13 tonne theory about the Hunters and Collectors was also very good.
The Doors - No One gets out alive - is great but I sensed a fair bit of bullshyte.

however the best of them all ( by far ) was David Crosby's Long time gone.
He makes Niki sixx and Kiedes look like weekend pot smokers.

This dude was in the Byrds and Crosby Stills Nash and Young.

It is hard to relate the music to the lifesyle he lead...it is a miracle he is still alive.


read the reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Time-Gone-David-Crosby/dp/0385245300

 

[HevyDevy]

David Lee Roth - Crazy From the Heat.

Oh and Fishy, although I'm not a huge Crue fan, I've seen your taste in music and it's quite rich for you to be criticising anyone else's ...

:crazy:

 

[natheel]

i thikn a few crue songs are bloody good/ catchy tunes

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

I've heard the Doors one is brilliant, anyone care to elaborate if they've read it?

 

[carcharias]

I've heard the Doors one is brilliant, anyone care to elaborate if they've read it?

Yeah a bloke called Danny Sugerman wrote it with some other bloke.
From memory he was some sort of groupie or friend of the band when he was a teenager.

It is a good story ...but some of the stories are probably just that.
He claims morrison smoked something like 6 ounces of pot in one day.

I also read an Iggy Pop one....funny how a lot of these junkie rock stars were all quite unpopular but high achievers in school.
Iggy was apparently some sort of young genius.
He was a drummer in a band called the iguana's...hence the nickname Iggy.

 

[sydraider]

Yeah a bloke called Danny Sugerman wrote it with some other bloke.
From memory he was some sort of groupie or friend of the band when he was a teenager.

It is a good story ...but some of the stories are probably just that.
He claims morrison smoked something like 6 ounces of pot in one day.

I also read an Iggy Pop one....funny how a lot of these junkie rock stars were all quite unpopular but high achievers in school.
Iggy was apparently some sort of young genius.
He was a drummer in a band called the iguana's...hence the nickname Iggy.

Danny Sugerman also wrote a self biography called Mulholland Drive, a story of excess ( I think thats the title). Another crazy book, he also details his time as a kid with jim morrison and Iggy pop, crazy book.

 

[LESStar58]

A Drink with Shane Macgowan by the man himself and his missus. How the man is still alive is a miracle of modern medicine! :lol:

 

[LESStar58]

I'm yet to read The Dirt but apparently it is phenomenal.

 

[millersnose]

A Drink with Shane Macgowan by the man himself and his missus. How the man is still alive is a miracle of modern medicine! :lol:

he posts here you know..or used to

under the name 'Dean Moriarty'

 

[HevyDevy]

I'm yet to read The Dirt but apparently it is phenomenal.

It certainly is. How any of them are still alive I'll never know.

 

[fish eel]

It is called .."sorry". I have read it twice...what a fall from grace.

I have read heaps .

The Dirt was pretty good.
Scar tissue was probably better.
13 tonne theory about the Hunters and Collectors was also very good.
The Doors - No One gets out alive - is great but I sensed a fair bit of bullshyte.

however the best of them all ( by far ) was David Crosby's Long time gone.
He makes Niki sixx and Kiedes look like weekend pot smokers.

This dude was in the Byrds and Crosby Stills Nash and Young.

It is hard to relate the music to the lifesyle he lead...it is a miracle he is still alive.


read the reviews
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Time-Gone-David-Crosby/dp/0385245300

Sorry - That's it thanks Carch, for the life of me I cant find where I've put it.

 

[LESStar58]

he posts here you know..or used to

under the name 'Dean Moriarty'

Apparently he has his teeth fixed....

 

[jdbronco]

Scar Tissue - Anthony Kiedis.

Scar Tissue would have to be one of my favourite books. Absolutely love RHCP and Anthony Kiedis.

 

[Zigwaa]

Scar Tissue was a great read and I'm not a big reader.

Heavier than Heaven about Kurt Cobain was pretty good too.

Anyone read the Brian "Head" Welsh of Korn book? Saw it in the shop and thought it might be a decent read but haven't spoken to anyone who's read it.