A Fistful Of Rock Roll

A Fistful of Rock Roll - Real Rock Art for Real Rock Bands - 21st Century Rock Poster & Record Cover Art Hot on the heels of Sal Canzonieri's "Electric Frankenstein! High Energy Rock Art" book and "From Here to There and Back Again: 100 Years of Rock Art Influences from 1890s to 1990s" book, high-energy, punk, rock & roll poster art comes an even more bombastic blast of raw poster power: "A Fistful of Rock & Roll - Real Rock Art for Real Rock Bands" book! A brain-frying collection nearly as big as a Marshall stack, A Fistful of Rock & Roll is an up-to-the-minute cross-section of today's booming rock poster scene, showcasing hundreds of works by top poster artists from every dive, hellhole, dungeon, and landfill from sea to shining sea, creating a deafening visual tribute to just about every goddamn cool band you can imagine! Get kicked in the eyeballs and give your sensibilities the beating they so richly deserve! Grab this amazingly cool collection of the wildest Rock Art you have ever seen! Years in the making, no stone was left unturned to bring together all these greats! This big fat book shows thousands of colorful art by the 21st Century's current best Rock Art artists. This is IT! "A Fistful of Rock & Roll - Real Rock Art for Real Rock Bands", by Sal Canzonieri, author of Dark Horse Book's "ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN!", is the most definitive and biggest Rock art book ever made, there is nothing like it anywhere! Every great artist is featured in this giant compendium of Rock Art! The Coolest artists from the USA, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Australia, and Japan are all here. What makes "A Fistful of Rock & Roll" even more unique is that many great artists contributed not only some of their hardly ever seen most rarest pieces, but also EXCLUSIVE art that is ONLY available in this book! Many, many UNPUBLISHED Rock art pieces are shown for the first time EVER! With full artist contact info contained within, this book will be very valuable not only to fans and collectors of Rock Art, but also to Art Gallery owners, Art Directors, Club Promoters, Rock Bands, and so on. Check out what will be the most talked about Rock Art book. Cool essay on the New Rock and with section on Record covers at beginning of the book, followed by huge number of poster art from around the world. * Fistful of Rock & Roll includes posters from some of the top live rock acts in the history of popular music, including James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, MC5, Iggy Pop, Devo, Sid Vicious, Slayer, The Cramps, The Hives, Velvet Revolver, Ministry, Ramones, High on Fire, Misfits, Motorhead, Ramones, Melvins, Danzig, The Pixies, Social Distortion, Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Religion, The Wildhearts, Sonic Youth, The Bronx, Hatebreed, Metallica, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Dropkick Murphys, AFI, Rob Zombie, and hundreds more! * Fistful of Rock & Roll features poster art and other graven images from a virtual who's-who of the rock art scene, including Basil Gogos, H.R. Giger, Savage Pencil, Johnny Ace, Dave Burke, Mike Hoffman, Dirty Donny, Rockin Jellybean, Steven Cerio, The Rev, Art Chantry, Coop, Kozik, Alan Forbes, Derek Hess, Mitch O' Connell, Johnny Crap, Jamie & Gilbert Hernandez, Jim Phillips, Mark Arminski, Lindsay Kuhn, Jeff Gaither, Darren Marinuk, Firehouse, Peter Bagge, John Pound, William Stout, Cliff Mott, Eric Pigors, The Pizz, Shepard Fairey, Alex Fine, Tara McPherson, Emek, Brain Ewing, R. Black, Lisa Petrucci, and Stainboy, to name but a few. Features over 300 of the world's greatest Rock poster, lowbrow, and underground artists! Stay tuned for the next Rock Art book of the series, coming soon: "It's Only Rock & Roll, But I Like It - More Real Rock Art for Real Rock Bands"!

In the crazed aftermath of the late '80s northern pop explosion there have been few survivors. The Charlatans, however, still prosper despite once being perceived as runts of the Manchester music scene. The cruellest of luck has visited heartbreaking death, nervous exhaustion, a jail sentence, and the prospect of falling almost totally out of fashion upon them. And yet, a deceptively tough band with a charismatic lead singer, their combination of unnerving honesty, sheer pop talent, great live shows, and a total and touching commitment to their fans has seen them survive some of the worst disasters that fate has thrown at any pop group. They have remarkable street suss that, with their small town backgrounds makes them totally at one with their huge following -- a relationship that has given them a fistful of number one albums. This is a tale of a love of pop and a lust for life. A story of northern pop and a band with guts and a passion for creativity. It traces the rise of the Charlatans from the fringes of the Manchester scene in the late Eighties to their current position at the top of British music, one of the key bands of the Nineties in possession of a rare and beautiful canon of great pop tunes.

Two survivors of a global catastrophe disguise themselves as corpses to survive in a land of the walking dead! From the mind of Mike Richardson, creator of The Mask and The Secret, comes this hilariously frightening tale of Straw and Whip who have lived through a plague that's left the world with seven billion brain-hungry zombies. Soon the two friends save a lovely young gun-crazy woman named Betty, who becomes a source of rivalry between them. With hundreds of zombies out for a snack, the three try their best to blend in so as not become the next item on the menu.

Third volume in the series of Rock Poster and Record Cover Art books by Sal Canzonieri. 278 full color pages of the coolest art ever seen! Previous books "Electric Frankenstein! High Energy Rock Art", "From Here to There and Back Again: 100 Years of Rock Art Influences from 1890s to 1990s" , and "A Fistful of Rock & Roll - Real Rock Art for Real Rock Bands" all featured high-energy, punk, rock & roll poster art, big blasts of raw poster and record cover power! This volume is another brain-frying collection nearly as big as a Marshall stack showing an up-to-the-minute cross-section of today's booming rock poster scene, showcasing hundreds of works by top poster artists from every dive, hellhole, dungeon, and landfill from sea to shining sea, creating a deafening visual tribute to just about every goddamn cool band you can imagine! Get kicked in the eyeballs and give your sensibilities the beating they so richly deserve! Grab this amazingly cool collection of the wildest Rock Art you have ever seen! * This book includes posters from some of the top live rock acts in the history of popular music, including the MC5, Iggy Pop, Slayer, The Cramps, The Hives, Guns and Roses, Melvins, Turbonegro, Ramones, High on Fire, Misfits, Motorhead, Ramones, Social Distortion, Queens of the Stone Age, The Wildhearts, Sonic Youth, Metallica, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Dropkick Murphys, AFI, Rob Zombie, and hundreds more! * Fistful of Rock & Roll features poster art and other graven images from a virtual who's-who of the rock art scene, including H.R. Giger, Johnny Ace, Dirty Donny, Rockin Jellybean, Steven Cerio, The Rev, Art Chantry, Coop, Kozik, Alan Forbes, Derek Hess, Mitch O' Connell, Johnny Crap, Jeff Gaither, Darren Marinuk, The Pizz, Alex Fine, R. Black, John Pound, to name but a few. Features over 300 of the world's greatest Rock poster, lowbrow, and underground artists!

Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll? is a history of alternative rock from John Robb, with the music still ringing in his ears. This collection follows John’s journey from the late 1970s, when he was first caught up in punk’s high-octane thrill, to the present day, via the early days of the rave scene, the birth of electronic and techno, and myriad bands that spun off on their own idiosyncratic paths. John was the first person to write about Nirvana, he coined the term Britpop, and he documented the Stone Roses’ rise out of Manchester before anyone else was interested. He was at every pivotal gig, and has interviewed every key player in the business, including Jordan, the queen of punk, founding father of new American rock Steve Albini, goth-rock guitarist Daniel Ash, infamous Oasis co-founder Noel Gallagher, and music greats like Lemmy and Poly Styrene. Few others have witnessed first-hand so many important moments of the last forty years of rock history. Here, they come together to form the essential history of a personal quest to document the ever-changing soundtrack of the modern world.

Stuart Rosenberg traces the growth of rock and roll music from its beginnings in 1955 through the end of the 1960s. During this fifteen year period, rock and roll became a major industry, creating a new generation of songwriters, recording artists, producers, and entrepreneurs, and introducing a variety of new musical genres. From the emergence of Elvis Presley and rock and roll's early pioneers in the mid-1950s, to the teen idols of the late 1950s, to the British invasion and the soul of Motown and Stax in the mid-1960s, to the progressive rock of the late 1960s, Rock and Roll and the American Landscape presents an intellectual perspective while chronicling the people and the events that shaped the popular culture.

Once you're dead, you're made for life. --Jimi Hendrix Hendrix. Janis. Morrison. Elvis. Lennon. Cobain. Garcia. Their reckless brilliance held the key to their self-destruction. Their deaths had much in common--and, surprisingly, so did their lives. From lonely childhoods marred by loss to groundbreaking music and turbulent careers that ended tragically and suspiciously, David Comfort explodes the myths as he probes: • The sinister roles of Hendrix's manager and girlfriend in his death and subsequent cover-up • The bizarre odyssey of Jim Morrison's corpse • Why Kurt Cobain was worth more dead than alive to Courtney Love • The twisted motives that caused John Lennon to sail through the Devil's Triangle to Bermuda--nearly going down in a storm--shortly before he was fatally shot • The crippling disease and "miracle" drug that drove Elvis to suicide Charismatic and gifted, but also isolated and conflicted, these are not the rock icons you thought you knew. Here are their larger-than-life stories of turmoil and excess that led to their early deaths and ultimate immortality. It's a wild ride to the other side of fame. "Fame is the soul eater." --Jerry Garcia "Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground." --John Lennon Includes Rare Photos David Comfort is the author of three bestselling nonfiction books. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, including Eclectic Literary Forum, Pacific Review, Coe Review, and Belletrist Review. He has been the recipient of several literary prizes and a finalist for such prestigious awards as the Nelson Algren Award and America's Best. A former rock musician, he has spent over 30 years studying rock music, particularly the revolutionary and fatalistic pioneers of the 1960s. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.

Music defines us. To return the favor, we’ll stick up with zealous passion for the performers and bands that we love . . . and heap aspersions and ridicule upon people who dare to place their allegiances above our own. In Rock and Roll Cage Match, today’ s leading cultural critics, humorists, music journalists, and musicians themselves take sides in thirty of the all-time juiciest “who’s better” musical disputes. Marc Spitz on the Smiths vs. the Cure: “If the Smiths are its James Dean, the Cure are the Marlon Brando of modern rock.” Mick Stingley on Van Halen vs. Van Hagar: “Eddie Van Halen single-handedly (sometimes quite literally) conjured rapturous sounds, and reinvented the idea of what could be done with a guitar with his sleight of hand. . . . As for the lyrics . . . Where Roth had been nuanced and clever, relying on double entendres and sexual innuendo, Sammy was ham-fisted and cloying and just downright embarrassing. Gideon Yago on Nirvana vs. Metallica: “Here is why Nirvana will always be a better band than Metallica. It’s not because they hit harder (they do). It’s not because they are tighter (they’re definitely not). . . . It’s because Metallica is fundamentally about respecting rules—of metal, of production, of technicality—and Nirvana is about breaking those rules down in the pursuit of innovation. Metallica was metal. Nirvana was something else.” Touré on Michael Jackson vs. Prince: “[Prince] was the wild son of Jimi, the younger brother of Rick James and Richard Pryor, the ultrasexual black Casanova who told you up front that he had a dirty mind . . . Michael held the opposite appeal. His music was often about escaping through dance or being hopeful about the world.” Russ Meneve on Bruce Springsteen vs. Bon Jovi: “I really, truly mean it when I say, Mr. Springsteen, no disrespect . . . you are a legend. But in the Battle a da Jerz, when that thick chemical-waste smoke clears and the overly sprayed mall hair parts, the Jov man is the last man rockin’.” Whitney Pastorek on Whitney Houston vs. Mariah Carey: “Frankly, dry recitations of figures are just too easily negated by simple things like, say, bringing up someone’s horrible taste in choosing movie roles. Watch, I’ll do it right now: Yes, Mariah has seventeen number one singles, and Whitney only eleven. But Whitney made The Bodyguard, which is basically a classic, and Mariah starred in Glitter, a colossal suckfest of crapitude that should disqualify her on the spot.”