Books on metal, rock bios, etc...

[ashaman7122]

I posted about The Dirt in the Now Reading forum and the fact that I really enjoyed the shit out of it. Surprised I never picked it up years ago, but I think it was actually more fun to read 9 years later after seeing what the Crue has become (at least through the eyes of VH-1, etc.)...haha!

I've got a decent library of rock and metal related literature....so I thought I would throw out this topic.

Anybody have any noteworthy faves in their collection that they'd like to wax philosophically about?

Rock on!

 

[dcowboys311]

Lords of Chaos.
Everyone whines about the book but it's still an entertaining read.

 

[AngraRULES]

Lords of Chaos is great.

I just picked up Mustaine's bio. Going to his book signing this coming Monday.

 

[Savage Pumpkin]

Two really really good books I read lately are

Steven Adler- My Appetite For Destruction
Bobby Blotzer- Tales Of A Ratt


And of course Slash's book is a good read as well as Gene Simmons' one.

 

[Angrafan]

I love Neil Peart's books... The focus of the books I read were on traveling North America by motorcycle, not music... But they are still great reads, and there are some parts about Rush and music in general... I highly recommend it.

 

[TychoCelchu]

Choosing Death was a good read.
Jagger (about The Rolling Stones) was a good read but I read it when I was about 12 years old and don't remember much.
Everybody Wants Some (Van Halen) wasn't too bad.

Since your post doesn't specify non-fiction, I can also mention a fictional novel called "Heavy Metal and You" by Christopher Krovatin. It's a short young-adult novel written by a metalhead and it's about a metalhead in high school who dates a preppy girl. It is not fine literature by any stretch, nor is it realistic, but it is entertaining/amusing if you're willing to not quibble with small things in the story.

 

[OrbWeaver]

I've only read the Nightwish book. I enjoyed it, though it seemed to be trying very hard to convince the reader about what a great guy Tuomas is.

 

[guardian26]

Read Mustaine last week, it was okay...not sure what I really expected I guess but it passed the time. Now I'm trying to read Adler's book but it's not keeping my attention and he seems like a tool.

 

[ratanda]

Steven Adler- My Appetite For Destruction

Rolling Stone gave this a bad review, saying that Steven Adler just paints himself as a victim. Was it like that in your opinion?

 

[nomisofsiman]

Rolling Stone gave this a bad review, saying that Steven Adler just paints himself as a victim. Was it like that in your opinion?

I haven't read it, but I don't trust anything Rolling Stone writes anymore. It seems anything that isn't "hip" they trash. I read a lot of the user reviews on Amazon and they say the opposite. At this point I trust user reviews more than Rolling Stone. The only thing I'll read Rolling Stone for are movie reviews.

 

[progmetalprincess]

I know it's not metal, and I know some people would beat me over the fact that I like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but Anthony Kiedis' bio "Scar Tissue" was good.

 

[guardian26]

Adler's book is pretty intersting. He does cry foul and victim and bitch about how every time he got a break someone kicked him down. I liked it much better than Mustaine's book.

 

[Harvester]

I thought Adler was full of shit most of the time. Between the whining and bitching, I thought he tried to walk the political line with the love/hate/love stuff in case hell freezes over for a reunion.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

David Lee Roth's Crazy From The Heat was just ok, Lemmy's White Line Fever was pretty good....

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

Ozzy's bio was amazing, much better than I thought it would be. But the best bio by a musician in my opinion was, surprisingly, Paul Di'Anno's bio. That guy is fucking nuts. VERY entertaining and quite shocking.

 

[Rakosh]

See...metalheads actually read: MUSTAINE will be #15 on the New York Times Best Sellers list next week (9/5/10).