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Post by roddy byers on Jul 15, 2008 20:05:17 GMT
Just finished "Heavier than Heaven" a biog about Kurt Cobain, Scooby Doo heavy too! Had to have a stiff drink ,n, ciggy afterwards.
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Post by Hugh on Jul 15, 2008 21:27:07 GMT
His and Courtney's daughter Frances Bean is 16.
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Post by Hugh on Jul 15, 2008 21:28:48 GMT
I'm reading Robert Fisk who bashes Blair and Bush real good.
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Post by roddy byers on Jul 19, 2008 12:23:36 GMT
Read a book on Slash from "Guns ,n, Roses" Im not a fan really but an interesting read.. Dont know how these people can drink ,n, drug so much? I dabbled a bit but compared to Kurt ,n, Slash im very small potatoes..
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Post by Mr P Nut Esq on Jul 19, 2008 12:26:34 GMT
Jules Hollands book is worth a read, well written.. So is Ian Dury's but I would say that now wouldn't I .
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Post by roddy byers on Jul 19, 2008 14:10:37 GMT
The wildest ive read is George Jones, (the country singer) "I lived to tell all" The bit where he shoots up the inside of the tour bus while his band are sleeping and the drivers stops the bus and legs it. The next day the band buy kids plasters-(band aids) ,n, stick em over all the bullet holes. Whiskey and Cocaine dont mix!
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Post by toddingrapevine on Jul 20, 2008 2:01:37 GMT
Hey Roddy.. There is a story bout Slash where him and Mick Mars of Motley Crue where up for 10 days straight drinking and snorting and "womanizing" with some female groupies
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Post by roddy byers on Jul 20, 2008 7:57:41 GMT
5 days i should imagine? Ive done three but i start to get a bit flakey after that.. That was in "Holywood" when the Specials were doing two shows a night at the "Whiskey A GO GO" i remember breaking down in a toilet stall-not very good im affraid.
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Post by roddy byers on Jul 20, 2008 18:16:43 GMT
Paul Williams is going to up-date his Specials Biog "Youre wondering now" due out next year i ear..
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Post by fester on Jul 23, 2008 21:00:43 GMT
Here's one for you Roddy Mate - "The March" by E.L. Doctorow - it's quality. Here's the blurb:
In 1864, after Union general William TeBanana Milkshakeseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and acBanana Milkshakeulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of those who marched. The author of Ragtime, City of Superior Force Of Nature, and The Book of Daniel has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters-white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners. At the center is General Sherman himself; a beautiful freed slave girl named Pearl; a Union regimental surgeon, Colonel Sartorius; Emily Thompson, the dispossessed daughter of a Southern judge; and Arly and Will, two misfit soldiers. Almost hypnotic in its narrative drive, The March stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a country at war with itself. The great march in E. L. Doctorow's hands becomes something more-a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.
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Post by roddy byers on Jul 24, 2008 15:34:53 GMT
I like non-fiction mainly.. read the "Siege of Atlanta,1864"Samuel Carter.
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Post by roddy byers on Sept 12, 2008 13:54:34 GMT
Reading "Open up and bleed" (Iggy Pop Biog) by Paul Trynka. Wow the Iggs lived a bit!
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Post by Hugh on Sept 12, 2008 14:27:27 GMT
He was on the edge, and I have this theory that he and Keef have been to H-E-double-toothpick and back. Grew up in a trailer park in Detroit, didn't he?
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Post by Hugh on Sept 12, 2008 14:28:53 GMT
There's a new book about the American electorate that looks interesting.
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Post by Jennifer on Sept 15, 2008 23:12:15 GMT
"The Heroin Diaries: by Nikki Sixx (of Motley Crue) was a good book about rock n' roll...
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