Book Review: I Slept With Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh

Posted March 14, 2013

How’s that for a title that gets your attention? No, this isn’t one of those glamorous, tell-all, rock star groupie memoirs. In fact, I cannot imagine any of the members of the punk rock pioneers, the Ramones, even using the word “glamorous” in a sentence…except perhaps to describe a pizza. I Slept ...

Book Review - Baby's in Black by Arne Bellstorf

Posted February 6, 2013

Baby's in Black drops you into a smoke-filled club in Hamburg. Despite the German locale, the band on stage is wailing in English about doing the "hippy hippy shake". Everyone's moving except for the bassist, who looks cooler than James Dean. The band has been playing for hours, and they will conti...

Book Review - How Music Works by David Byrne

Posted January 8, 2013

How Music Works offers many answers to a question that I had never even asked. Now that I've read it I wonder, "How could I have gone so long without this information?" Musician and writer David Byrne crafts such an enticing collection of essays, dropping factoids and anecdotes along the way, that ...