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Ladataan... Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer (vuoden 2008 painos)Tekijä: Chris Salewicz (Tekijä)
TeostiedotRedemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer (tekijä: Chris Salewicz)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This is a great book, but the reality of one's heroes can be a little hard to take sometimes, so I've had to put it down for a while. I'll definitely be coming back to it. I was in the market for a telecaster after I regretted selling my custom built Warmoth tele. The thing about the Warmoth I loved the most was the neck. It had a unfinished smooth feel to it that felt very “worn in.” After a little research, I stumbled on the Joe Strummer edition Fender Telecaster, which is heavily reliced. The neck was supposed to have a great feel, so I bought it. I went on a Clash kick, which led me to borrow the biography from a buddy at work. Strange how we end up where we are. It took me longer to read the 613 pages than I originally guessed, and I have a lot of excuses. My wife and I had our fourth child, a second daughter. We now have an even set- two boys and two girls. I’ve been busy with the kids and various projects. The book is dense, a veritable Moby Dick of rock biographies. But the truth is, I’ve just been slack in my reading habits. Revolution Rock When I say the book is dense, I mean Salewicz includes dizzying amounts of details. I think he recorded every trip Joe made to the pub. In case you didn’t know, Joe was powerful thirsty. That’s not to say the book isn’t good. It’s very good. But you have to be committed to finishing it. I was a little wary at the beginning because Salewicz obviously adored Joe Strummer, which often leads to biographers airbrushing their subjects’ warts and blemishes. Once you get past the first three chapters, which recount the funeral, some of Salewicz’s last moments with Joe, and a trip to Joe’s ancestor’s home in Scotland; Salewicz gives a very balanced account of Joe’s life – his faults, as well as his virtues. The book is fairly evenly divided between Joe’s early years, his years with the Clash, and his solo years. If you don’t know, The Clash began as a punk band in the late seventies, but quickly turned into a genre-breaking band fusing punk, rock, reggae, and world music. You’ll learn, with plenty of specific examples, Joe loved people. The cast of characters is endless and includes some unusual suspects. He genuinely loved music from all over the world, especially reggae, cumbia, and African music. He always had a “ghetto blaster” with him. Joe also loved a bar and could talk the owner into keeping it open until dawn. Perhaps his last great love was a campfire, which connected all of the above – people sitting around drinking, talking, and listening to music. Salewicz writes towards the end of the book, “…Those who knew him, that international group of interconnected old souls who formed his and The Clash’s posse, knew he wasn’t Saint Joe. No, he was much more interesting than that.” Joe felt his biggest mistakes were firing two of the four essential members of The Clash- Topper Headon and Mick Jones. But throughout his life, he wasn’t the easiest person to work with. He had trouble handling situations, especially if they involved people close to him. He could be the kindest guy in the world giving bums $50 bills, but whip a microphone at the drummer’s head on stage for missing a change. He would apologize later, but the damage was usually done. As with most biographies dealing with a hero, the reader wants the hero to rise above the fray (synonym of “clash,” me trying to be clever). Joe was able to maintain his integrity through the years and revive his career in the late 90s and early 2000s with his last band, The Mescaleros. But he was still heavily abusing substances and just generally not taking care of himself, often only getting four or five hours of sleep. His relationships with the muscicians in the band were often shaky, but perhaps that’s what fed his creative energy. His last album, completed posthumously by the band using Joe’s guide vocal tracks, is a great, driving rock record. Something Joe had been striving to make for years. He officially died of an undiagnosed congenital heart defect, but one has to think that the alcohol, drugs, and late nights took years off his life. On an interesting note, the book literally fell apart as I was reading it. Large chunks of pages came unglued from the spine. I’ve never had that happen before, so I’m not sure if I did something to cause it or what. The bad thing was I borrowed it from a buddy at work, so I ended up buying a copy to replace it. Redemption Song is an atypical rock star biography of a man who was, by any measure, an atypical rock star. By showing us Joe Strummer née John Mellor, warts and all, Salewicz paints a true portrait of a man who embodied contradiction as much as he embodied the idea of personal freedom. Detractors often took Strummer’s restlessness and curiosity as signs that his most famous incarnation as a Camden Town garage rat was ultimately a pose. His life story leaves you with the impression that whatever Strummer believed at any given moment, he believed it all the way. The world is a poorer place without Joe. Believe. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
With exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an rock 'n roll icon. The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and '60s protest, the overtly political band railed against war, racism, and a dead-end economy, and in the process imparted a conscience to punk. Their eponymous first record and London Calling still rank in Rolling Stone's top-ten best albums of all time, and in 2003 they were officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Joe Strummer was the Clash's front man, a rock-and-roll hero seen by many as the personification of outlaw integrity and street cool. The political heart of the Clash, Strummer synthesized gritty toughness and poetic sensitivity in a manner that still resonates with listeners, and his untimely death in December 2002 shook the world, further solidifying his iconic status. Salewicz was a friend to Strummer for close to three decades and has covered the Clash's career and the entire punk movement from its inception. He uses his vantage point to write Redemption Song, the definitive biography of Strummer, charting his enormous worldwide success, his bleak years in the wilderness after the Clash's bitter breakup, and his triumphant return to stardom at the end of his life. Salewicz argues for Strummer's place in a long line of protest singers that includes Woody Guthrie, John Lennon, and Bob Marley, and examines by turns Strummer's and punk's ongoing cultural influence. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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