Re: (TV) OT: Roxy Music, Needle in Haystack/K. Richards

[robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com>]

i liked keith's book well enough, too.  but it was not the great book i thought it might be based on the three glowing write ups it receieved in the new york times.  the guitar info was interesting, as was the gossip.

i wish the stones had stopped recording after "some girls."  then i wouldn't have to feel embarassed for liking them.

patti smith's "just kids" is a great book, with relevant television content -- now out in paperback (and a national book award winner).  i think anyone on this list would enjoy it.  

am now reading the iggy bio, "open up and bleed."  well written and interesting -- had no idea he started life as a yuppie prick.

r


p.s. -- leo -- i did receive your email awhile back.  but since my SECOND robbery of 2010, where all my music was stolen, i've never gotten things back into order.  i did get most of it back, which was a miracle, but none of the boots are organized at all, just in big piles.



--- On Thu, 1/6/11, Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net> wrote:
> PS: Just finished Keith Richard' memoir, "Life" from
> library.  
> It was not as great as I had expected given its serious
> reviews, e.g., can be pretty
> repetitious; I guess repetition goes with being a heroin
> addict for 12 yrs and a rock god for
> 45 yrs.  Still....  I'd  give it a B to B+;
> most interesting parts for me were long segments on
> his family life/children and that he was a Boy Scout.
> 
> Musicians on List might be surprised to learn that Richards
> has relied heavily (almost
> exclusively[?]) since 1968 on 'open tuning' and use of
> 5-string electric guitars!.  A shocker
> (at least for me):  there are no electric guitars
> (except bass) on 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'.  
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