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Our Band Could Be Your Life
a pack of wolves:
Get In The Van is an interesting book, but it's doing something very different to Our Band Could Be Your Life. Its focus is even more narrow as it only deals with them on tour, and often not a lot except Henry Rollins being all bitter and hate-filled. I haven't read Confusion Is Next, I'll look into it.
Alex C:
I'm torn. I don't give a crap about the title (but, in all honesty, I hate hardcore, so I'm inclined to believe just about any portrayal of the bands of the genre as somewhat grandiose) and some of the tales are interesting. On the other hand, yeah, the writing style wore on me. Then again, I'd been reading a lot of old Halberstam and Gladwell articles when I checked that book out, so I can't help but think I may have been inadvertently holding it up to a ridiculously high standard.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 14 Dec 2007, 16:18 ---Incidentally, I don't think the age thing holds water because on Electrical Audio the vote is 93% in favour. The overwhelming majority of people on EA are over 30 at least.
--- End quote ---
The overwhelming majority of people on EA probably know people from the bands talked about as well. Not exactly an un-biased sample!
Joseph:
I look for this book in every single bookstore I go into, and I've yet to have success in tracking it down. I suppose one of these days I'm going to have to go and order a bunch of stuff on Amazon and pick it up.
Zerodrone, I was wondering if you could possibly provide more examples of where the book is inaccurate. Just some things to keep in mind when I do manage to find a copy.
JimmyJazz:
Even though the rest of Black Flag's discography is utter shit, I think Damaged is an incredible album.
Don't hurt me.
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