Zoe Street Howe
Autor(a) de Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams & Rumors
About the Author
Obras por Zoe Street Howe
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 189
- Popularidade
- #115,306
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 27
- Línguas
- 1
Howe writes the book pretty straight forward, dodging the usual tripe and drunken debauchery that often plagues music biographies by seeming obligatory when it's rarely so. The Mary Chain are described as a lot of moping persons who created music that defined the 1980s somewhat and influenced bands and artists for all time forth, probably.
I wish there'd have been pictures in the book - there are none, bar the cover image.
They wanted to sound like the Shangri-Las and Einstürzende Neubauten at the same time, and they somewhat did, while sounding like nothing else out there:
They walked off stage if bored and practically did what they wanted to do, except for cater much to the media. And they didn't like their peers very much:
And yes, they were viewed as different, by all:
And they didn't care much about virtuosity:
Sounds like when Alan McGee thought of John Moore to join The Mary Chain:
...and speaking of drumming:
The band didn't care much for being "correct" with the media:
They loved their fans, who in some cases were as saddening as the band:
On The Smiths:
On picking support acts for their tours:
All in all, the book's a labour of love and doesn't pander to the author's ego, but is about the band. Go read if you're into JAMC.… (mais)