Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Mayhem, Life - Softcover

Wobble, Jah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846687128 ISBN 13: 9781846687129

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Ofrece una cuenta de Frank y fascinante de la vida de un Geezer en el negocio de la música. Esta autobiografía, de Jah anzuelo, ofrece una cuenta de Insider 's del comienzo de punk rock. Se incluye sus opiniones de la gran y buena, de Malcolm McClaren a Peter Gabriel a Brian Eno de Iain Sinclair.

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Music Books of the Year: Like his bass, the lows are low and the style upfront. (Ludovic Hunter-Tilney Financial Times 2009-11-28)

Rather than another tale of redemption by a spoiled celeb, this autobiography - articulate, funny and sharply intelligent - reads like a valuable cultural historiography... Jah Wobble has already created one of the most remarkable and idiosyncratic discographies of any musician in Britain during the last 30 years. Memoirs of a Geezer helps to define the questing, sometimes troubled soul behind those legendary low frequencies. (Alan Warner Guardian 2009-10-10)

There isn't a dull page in this slyly entertaining memoir. Wobble is the ultimate punk and post-punk raconteur and for those not lucky enough to spend time with the great man, this book... is a terrific substitute... [A]n influential and revered bassist... Wobble's character assessments are always entertaining... (Suzi Feay Independent on Sunday 2009-09-27)

Blackly comic (Helen Brown Daily Telegraph 2009-11-28)

He writes as well as he plays... entertaining and uplifting. (Tom Widger Sunday Tribune 2009-11-08)

An exhilarating journey...he is an agreeable and thoughtful tour guide. (Tony Russell Mojo 2009-11-01)

Riveting account of East End bassist's life...
Wobble's autobiography is extraordinary: brutally honest, often hilarious, resolutely adhering to his down-to-earth geezer principles but soul-searching and spiritual, with his beloved-but-embattled East End the recurring backdrop. While wit or received wisdom drip from every anecdote, he pulls no punches... Lucid, gripping and incredibly direct, Wobble has produced nothing less than a Cockney Chronicles.

(Kris Needs Mojo 2009-12-01)

Sharp, funny and always searingly honest account of his life to date (Jim Carroll Irish Times 2009-10-08)

Post-punk bass behemoth and former London Tube driver bares all...
It's a colourful read, full of the sort of old-school music business shenanigans you hope don't go on anymore... And Wobble can write... Very entertaining.

(Johnny Davis Q 2009-11-01)

Wobble's writing is punchy and often extremely funny... It's the terse voice of a man staking out his own territory... the greatest of recent bassists. (Derek Walmsley The Wire 2009-10-01)

Reseña del editor:

Written in his own unmistakable voice, this is a frank and fascinating account of a geezer's life in the music business. Jah Wobble begins by offering the most authentic insider's account of the beginning of punk rock yet written, but there's much more to him than that. His is an eventful life, as the celebrated ups - PiL's The Metal Box, 90s hit Visions Of You with Sinead O'Connor - are balanced by major downs - chronic alcoholism and marital breakdown. It begins with an East End childhood in a London barely recovered from the War and ends with Wobble finally turning his back on London that no longer feels like home. Through the book Wobble tell it like he sees it: his opinions of the great and good from Malcolm Mclaren to Peter Gabriel to Brian Eno to Iain Sinclair are refreshingly disrespectful. Oh and if you ever wondered how got his name, the answer is here: his teenage pal Sid Vicious gave it to him when he drunkenly slurred Wobble's real name, John Wardle.

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• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846687128
• ISBN 13: 9781846687129
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352