Off the Record - Couverture souple

Menconi, David

 
9780595133307: Off the Record

Synopsis

Take a volatile rock band, a kingmaking concert promoter, a downtrodden clubowner and a rock critic with questionable journalistic ethics, add one hit record, a drug problem, a couple of riots and shake well. There you have the essence of this book, the very unauthorized account of the rise and fall of the Tommy Aguilar Band. Off The Record will confirm your worst suspicions about the music business, an industry in which musicians are like the infantry -- the first to die, and the last to get paid. For further intrigue, visit the Off The Record website at www.offtherecordbook.com

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Take a volatile rock band, a kingmaking concert promoter, a downtrodden clubowner and a rock critic with questionable journalistic ethics, add one hit record, a drug problem, a couple of riots and shake well. There you have the essence of this book, the very unauthorized account of the rise and fall of the Tommy Aguilar Band. Off The Record will confirm your worst suspicions about the music business, an industry in which musicians are like the infantry -- the first to die, and the last to get paid. For further intrigue, visit the Off The Record website at www.offtherecordbook.com

Biographie de l'auteur

): David Menconi is the music critic at the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has also written for Spin, Billboard, Request, No Depression, Oxford American, Mother Jones and the "MusicHound Album Guide" series. This is his first novel.

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