* GUARANTEED GREAT MUSIC! -- a record-store memoir.
* RECORD STORE DAZE -- a playlist/companion to GUARANTEED GREAT MUSIC!
* THE CONFESSOR: 20 YEARS IN THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS.
* THE GAS NAZI!: TEN YEARS IN A CONVENIENCE STORE.
All available for $2.99 at Amazon.com's Kindle Store.
And:
* THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE: A NEWSPAPER NOVEL, $3.99 at the Kindle Store.
TAD's fave music-related non-fiction
BEFORE I GET OLD: THE STORY OF THE WHO -- Dave Marsh
BILLBOARD'S TOP POP SINGLES -- Joel Whitburn
CHRISTGAU'S CONSUMER GUIDE: THE '80s -- Robert Christgau
CHRISTGAU'S RECORD GUIDE: THE '70s -- Robert Christgau
ENGLAND'S DREAMING -- Jon Savage
IN THE COURT OF KING CRIMSON -- Sid Smith
King Crimson diary & scrapbooks -- compiled by Robert Fripp
LOOK! LISTEN! VIBRATE! SMILE! -- compiled by Dominic Priore
MAINLINES, BLOOD FEASTS AND BAD TASTE -- Lester Bangs
PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR DUNG -- Lester Bangs
REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD -- Ian McDonald
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE: THE UNCENSORED HISTORY -- Robert Draper
SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS -- Nicholas Schaffner
THE ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO ROCK
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Bill Bruford
THE BEACH BOYS -- Byron Preiss
THE BEACH BOYS AND THE CALIFORNIA MYTH -- David Leaf
THE HEART OF ROCK AND SOUL -- Dave Marsh
THE LONGEST COCKTAIL PARTY -- Richard DiLello
THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ -- Richard Cook and Brian Morton
THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO POPULAR MUSIC -- edited by Donald Clarke
THE ROLLING STONE RECORD GUIDE -- edited by Dave Marsh & John Swenson
THE ROLLING STONE RECORD REVIEW VOLUME II
WALK AWAY RENE -- Hipgnosis/Storm Thorgerson
TAD's fave posts -- look 'em up!
"Back on the Chain Gang"
"If We Were Wise"
2 months on Match.com!
2 years in Turkey!
A look back at SMiLE
A really rude habit....
All SMiLEs
Boycott Black Friday!
Confessions of an Amazon.com addict
Dating After 50, Parts 1&2
Facing Dr. Pagan
First Girl I Loved
Guaranteed Great Music!
Musicmagic
My old Idaho home....
The best prog band ever?
The Boogie Monster and other adventures
The Good Olde Days...?
The Kids Are Alright....
The poster-child for stressing-out
The pot-smoker's runaround
The Singles Maven
The smallest Air Force base in the world
The Walkman at tech school
The worst Prom date EVER
Where are the laffs?
Wine, Women & Songs
TAD's fave rock&roll novels
Bruce Sterling: ZEITGEIST
Gael Baudino: GOSSAMER AXE
George R.R. Martin: THE ARMAGEDDON RAG
Jesse Sublett: ROCK CRITIC MURDERS
Lewis Shiner: GLIMPSES
Lewis Shiner: SAY GOODBYE
Nick Hornby: HIGH FIDELITY
Nick Hornby: JULIET NAKED
Roddy Doyle: THE COMMITMENTS
Tony Parsons: STORIES WE COULD TELL
Good Rock&Roll Short Stories
Alistair Reynolds: "At Budokan"
Edward Bryant: "Stone"
Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick: "Touring"
Graham Masterton: "Voodoo Child"
Gregory Benford: "Doing Lennon"
Gregory Nicoll: "Dead Air"
John M. Ford: "Preflash"
Lewis Shiner: "Jeff Beck"
Lucius Shepard: "A Little Night Music"
Michael Swanwick: "The Feast of Saint Janis"
Norman Spinrad: "The Big Flash"
Robert Silverberg: "All the Way Up, All the Way Down"
William Gibson: "The Winter Market"
Favorite Novels Ever
Frank Herbert: DUNE
Frederik Pohl: GATEWAY
Gael Baudino: GOSSAMER AXE
George R.R. Martin: DYING OF THE LIGHT
John Brunner: STAND ON ZANZIBAR
Kathe Koja: SKIN
Kathe Koja: THE CIPHER
Lewis Shiner: GLIMPSES
Nick Hornby: JULIET NAKED
Ray Bradbury: THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Robert A. Heinlein: THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS
Robert Silverberg: DOWNWARD TO THE EARTH
Robert Silverberg: DYING INSIDE
Robert Silverberg: THE BOOK OF SKULLS
Samuel R. Delany: EMPIRE STAR
Samuel R. Delany: THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
Favorite Albums of All Time (this week....)
Bangles: DIFFERENT LIGHT
Beach Boys: PET SOUNDS
Beach Boys: SMiLE SESSIONS
Beatles: ABBEY ROAD
Caravan: FOR GIRLS WHO GROW PLUMP IN THE NIGHT
Go-Go's: TALK SHOW
Group 87: (1ST)
Gryphon: RED QUEEN TO GRYPHON THREE
Gryphon: TREASON
Happy the Man: CRAFTY HANDS
Illusion: OUT OF THE MIST
King Crimson: THE GREAT DECEIVER/LIVE 1973-1974
King Crimson: THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO...
Moody Blues: THE PRESENT
Nick Drake: BRYTER LAYTER
Pretenders: (1ST)
Providence: EVER SENSE THE DAWN
Renaissance: LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL
Sky: SKY2
The Who: WHO'S NEXT
Yes: YESSONGS
You can say what you want....
"Nothing but the best, and later for the garbage." -- CHUCK BERRY
"I want the frighteningly original ALL the time." -- FRANK ZAPPA
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture -- it's a really stupid thing to want to do." -- ELVIS COSTELLO
"If I have to choose between getting something done and just laying around, I'll choose laying around every time." -- ERIC CLAPTON
About this Blog....
This blog is a chance for me to rave about Strange Music, off-the-wall (usually music-related) books, current events, or whatever works me up enough to write about. This stuff is compulsive for me, so you never know what might appear here. Or what might send me into another of my ongoing Nostalgia Trips....
62. Former newspaper reporter & editor (20 years), frustrated fiction writer. 3 years of work in a record store -- a lifetime of listening. Been reviewing music, books & movies for newspapers since 1987. 2 children, both grown up.