Any good biographies on Springsteen, Elliott Smith, Wait, Sonic Youth? (1 Viewer)

[Unicron]

Christmas is a coming and my mum will want to get me my traditional christmas book.

Edit: WaitS

 

[Jasper]

I read this a few years ago and thought it was good:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312113692/?tag=thumpedcom-20

Have you read "Our Band Could Be Your Life"? There's a chapter on them and overall it's an excellent book.

 

[Unicron]

Cheers.

Have you read "Our Band Could Be Your Life"? There's a chapter on them and overall it's an excellent book.

I have yeah, great book. There was one I was told about recently that was written by an obsessive Guided By Voices fan that sounded good. Forget the title.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Read one on Sonic youth years ago called confusion is next

 

[coast to coast]

There's an Elliott Smith book called Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing by Benjamin Nugent which I do not recommend. Nothing in it really, rushed out after he died. Instead there's a book being published at the end of the month called simply Elliott Smith by Autumn de Wilde who took a lot of photos of Elliott and was mates with him in L.A. Its mainly photography and anecdotes about him by musicians and friends, etc. I heard its very good. I ordered mine from Amazon in America but I believe it should be over here soon.

 

[sweetoblivion]

Oh I love Autumn's work. she is amazing and all her pics of Elliott were so beautiful!

 

[Unicron]

Is she the one who took the figure 8 cover?

 

[coast to coast]

The very same:

http://www.autumndewilde.com/

 

[jane]

I hope there isn't a definitive Springsteen bio yet because it would shatter my dreams of being his biographer.

Dear Bruce,

Please pick me! Tell Patti I promise to keep my hands to myself except for all the hugs I've stored up in gratitude for the epiphany I had the first time I heard Dancing in the Dark.

Kthx.

Love,

Jane

PS: Pretty please?

I'm not a big biography reader, but No Laughing Matter, Flann O'Brien's bio, is worth a read. And I just bought Studs Terkel's autobiography, which looks amazing. He and Bruce are tied for first in my heroism superchart.

I heard Tommy Lee's 'auto'biography is full of tips on how to maximise the volume and velocity of one's ejaculate. Apparently, it's only funny for about five minutes, then it just seems really weird.

 

[Unicron]

I heard Tommy Lee's 'auto'biography is full of tips on how to maximise the volume and velocity of one's ejaculate.

Not a problem. Shit, said too much.

 

[Unicron]

Jane if you could research, write and publish the definitive Bruce biography before my mother goes Christmas shopping that would be just super. If you want you can even include a chapter about how you and he walk off into the sun.

 

[Jamesy Yakuza]

There's an Elliott Smith book called Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing by Benjamin Nugent which I do not recommend. Nothing in it really, rushed out after he died. Instead there's a book being published at the end of the month called simply Elliott Smith by Autumn de Wilde who took a lot of photos of Elliott and was mates with him in L.A. Its mainly photography and anecdotes about him by musicians and friends, etc. I heard its very good. I ordered mine from Amazon in America but I believe it should be over here soon.

I just bough this in the states, looks very nice...comes with a cool live cd as well...

that other book is a bit crap alright...

 

[coast to coast]

estoy (muy) celosa.

 

[Goodbye]

The book, Innocent When You Dream is a good read.

 

[Unicron]

The book, Innocent When You Dream is a good read.

Is that the collection of interviews? I've seen it for sale on the CD racks in Tower for the past few weeks.

 

[Goodbye]

Yes it is.

I found it interesting in that the older interviews he really had a premeditated shtick, a character if you will that he created, and somehow over the years he slowly metamorphosised into really being that character.
A bit like Woody Allen.