Music : Rock

It?s 1983 and Chuck Klosterman--a Wyndmere, North Dakota fifth-grader--wants to rock. His parents will not permit the long hair that his particular brand of rocking requires, but thankfully his brother returns from Fort Benning with the right tunes: Motley Cure?s Shout at the Devil. So begins Chuck?s love affair with heavy metal music, a genre that conquered the charts throughout the 1980s before disaffected grunge rockers like Nirvana and Pearl Jam laid it to waste in the early 90s. Critics damned the music as fake and unaccomplished. Once Guns N? Roses (metal?s ultimate creation) fell of the radar, the children of 80s metal went into proverbial hiding. Many left their crusty tape and LP collections in their closets and went off to college to buy compact discs that contained ?alternative? and ?progressive? music. However, a phenomenon tha tsold as many records as metal did never really goes away, and Chuck Klosterman is here to explain what that means to you. more...

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Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Website; List of Text's Figures, Tables, and Photographs. 1. Drums, Other Percussion, and a Bit About Rhythm. 2. Guitars, the Bass, and an Introduction to Harmony. n3. Keyboards and a Summary of Early-Rock. 5. Vocal Color, Technique, and Arrangement. 6. Forms: Phrases and Sections. 7. Melody: Materials and Patterns. 8. Chord Construction. 9. Diatonic Harmonic Function. 10. Harmony in Minor and Other Non-Major Modes. 11. Chromatic Harmony. 12. Musical Time: Rhythm, Meter and Tempo. 13. Engineering the Master. 14. Creating an Interpretation. Appendix: Lexicon of Chord Symbols; Further Print Resources In Pop-Rock Music Of The 1950s-'60s. Index of Artists, Composers, Song and Album Titles. Index of Materials and Techniques more...

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Arranged in chronological order, these pieces add up to nothing less than a full-scale history of the greatest tour band in the history of rock. From Tom Wolfe's account of the Dead's first performance as the Grateful Dead (at an Acid Test in 1965), to Ralph Gleason's 1967 interview with the 24-year-old Jerry Garcia, to Mary Eisenhart's obituary of the beloved leader of the band, these selections include not only outstanding writing on the band itself, but also superb pieces on music and pop culture generally. Fans will be fascinated by the poetry, fiction, drawings, and rare and revealing photographs featured in the book, as well as the anthology's many interviews and profiles, interpretations of lyrics, and concert and record reviews. Still, The Grateful Dead was more than a band--it was a cultural phenomenon. For three decades it remained on one unending tour, followed everywhere by a small army of nomadic fans. This phenomenon is both analyzed and celebrated here, in such pieces as Ed McClanahan's groundbreaking article in Playboy in 1972, fan-magazine editor Blair Jackson's 1990 essay on the seriousness of the drug situation at Dead concerts, and Steve Silberman's insightful essays on the music and its fans. more...

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Profiling one of the most popular and enduring female-fronted hard rock bands in rock 'n' roll, this book offers a backstage pass to the writing and recording of all of Heart’s hit albums and smash singles. Featuring exclusive interviews with band leaders Ann and Nancy Wilson, this rock history also includes insights from longtime guitarist Howard Leese, as well as interviews with the producers who helped craft Heart's hits, including Mike Flicker, Ron Nevison, Keith Olsen, and Ritchie Zito. more...

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