Shakey, Neil Youngs biography, is pretty great. The more I liked the album being covered, the more I enjoyed that part of the book. Consequently, it was a chore getting through the early years/80s. The author had a lame habit of ending chapters with Behind the Music-esque setups for the next.

Please Kill Me is often maligned, and for pretty good reason. Still enjoyed it.

While I wouldn't necessarily call The Ground Beneath Her Feet a 'rock book,' I think its fair to include in this list. Good, imaginative stuff.

I hated Our Band Could Be Your Life.

Lester Bang's published stuff is well worth reading.

What else am I missing out there?

By the drummer of Semisonic, the "Closing Time" band. The Problem With Music as told by someone it happened to.

Slichter quickly learns that all the bills, from dinner to the cost of making a record, go to the artist while most of the profits go to the record label. He also finds out that the existence of profits depends on the suits at the record company picking the right song to release, a fickle radio station program director deciding to play it and MTV deeming the video cool enough to air. All this pressure to simultaneously create music and make business decisions takes such a toll on Slichter that he becomes more focused on album sales than on the fun of playing drums.

Dance of Days is very enjoyable if you like the Dischord stuff.

Up and Down with the Rolling Stones was funny and "decadent", if I am remembering things right. Worth the price of admission just for the Keith Richards hovercraft story.

Crazy From the Heat (David Lee Roth's autobiography) is really good.

And I've not read it, but that Nikki Sixx book is supposed to be outstanding.

i think this has been done here. at least twice. somebody find it.

I looked but I think we just ended up talking about this in other threads as a tangent.

As far as I can tell, this is the first dedicated thread.

that damned fly wrote:i think this has been done here. at least twice. somebody find it.

no thx don't want to

Books about Punk Rock thread.

Worth reading, not quite a clean Kerble.

tommydski wrote:Books about Punk Rock thread.

Worth reading, not quite a clean Kerble.

Yeah, my Semisonic book wouldn't fit in that thread.