Band Biographies Worth Bothering With
 

I tend to read lots of these but rarely find them that interesting. Just wondering if there were any you'd read that you enjoyed.

the long hard road out of hell.

Who's that about?

my master mystikal marilyn manson

I assume you've already read Head On/Repossessed? That and Shakey [Neil Young] probs top the pile for me.
And while it's not a band bio, Danny Sugarman's Wonderland Avenue takes some beating in the rock'n'roll memoir stakes.

I all seriousness, David Lee Roth's auto-bio "Crazy From The Heat" is pure entertainment.

motley crue's dirt.

"Heavier than the sky" was funny to read.

Are We nOT mEN? bio of DEVO is quite a great read

how Jerry Casale was present at the Kent State shootings, the early history of the band when they opened for Sun Ra (and alienated the crowd so bad they were the only audience left when Sun Ra played) and cool booji boy fun

i was never a big nirvana fan, always a fan though, but after reading that nirvana book (forget the author) that was actually about the band and not kurt and his heroin habit (allthough theres plenty of that mentioned) i was an uber fan.

both no wave books

the slash autobiography is hilarious

the book about the recording of 'ecile on main street' is a good read

the sun ra biography by john f szwed is a good read

Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff & Time Buckley

It's fucking incredible. By David Browne, the guy that just wrote the new Sonic Youth bio.

If you don't have it already, the "Wreckers Of Civilization" book about Coum Transmisions/Throbbing Gristle is pretty ace.

i was going to buy wreckers of civiilization before i went skint.

i recommend the germs/darby crash bio lexicon devil and the spacemen 3 book.

i'm starting lemmy's autobio very soon.

dance of days and banned in dc

I quite enjoyed Jayne County's Man Enough To Be A Woman. I don't remember a great deal about it to be honest, but I remember enjoying reading it.

A really great book though is Redemption Song, the Joe Strummer biography by Chris Salewicz. One of the best biographies I've ever read, music or otherwise.

Riders on the Storm by John Densmore......although everybody here hates The Doors so..............

I bought No One Here Gets Out Alive and never read it. Not sure if I'll ever get around to it. Maybe on some vacation.

The Doors have their place. Great jukebox music.

no way, i love them


room full of mirrors, about jimi hendrix (i think that's what it's called??)
a season in hell with the rolling stones
up and down with the rolling stones (seriously entertaining, was written by their dealer)