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Summary: If you have even the slightest inclination...
Review: to buy this book, do so. It's a very funny, intelligent, brash autobiography by a true rock iconoclast.Historically speaking, we all know the major influences of the middle-to-late sixties rock revolution - and nobody better personifies the link between the 'Brill Building' and what exploded musically and culturally back then. Mr. Kooper presents himself as highly intelligent and rather dim-witted, super-talented and incompetent, ballsy and timid, humble and an egomaniac, sensitive and brutish, forgiving and revengeful -- sort of like a real human being! No whitewashing here. Plus, any rock star who pens his memoirs and makes a passing reference to Sven Nykvist with no footnote or explanation whatsoever gets five Amazon.com stars from me automatically. So read the book.
Rating:
Summary: If you have even the slightest inclination...
Review: to buy this book, do so. It's a very funny, intelligent, brash autobiography by a true rock iconoclast. Historically speaking, we all know the major influences of the middle-to-late sixties rock revolution - and nobody better personifies the link between the 'Brill Building' and what exploded musically and culturally back then. Mr. Kooper presents himself as highly intelligent and rather dim-witted, super-talented and incompetent, ballsy and timid, humble and an egomaniac, sensitive and brutish, forgiving and revengeful -- sort of like a real human being! No whitewashing here. Plus, any rock star who pens his memoirs and makes a passing reference to Sven Nykvist with no footnote or explanation whatsoever gets five Amazon.com stars from me automatically. So read the book.
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Summary: Page 2?
Review: Where's Paul Harvey when you REALLY need him? These guys (everybody associated with the first two versions of Blood, Sweat and Tears) regularly spin doctor themselves and each other into oblivion at every opportunity they get without very much attention being paid to the MUSIC ITSELF, or it's creation. ALL of which I personally think is GREAT. Blood, Sweat and Tears' first 4 records will go to that Tom Hanks desert island with me ahead of just about anything else in rock music's catalog. The question I want answered is when is the band that made the big splash going to get the chance to tell it's side of the story? (CD linear notes with 3rd and 4th hand accounts don't count). Apparently never.
Kooper's accounting of himself and his personal musical endeavor's however were so captivating and humorous that I checked out his compilation CD (Rare and Well Done) and LOVED it!
Rating:
Summary: Page 2?
Review: Where's Paul Harvey when you REALLY need him? These guys (everybody associated with the first two versions of Blood, Sweat and Tears) regularly spin doctor themselves and each other into oblivion at every opportunity they get without very much attention being paid to the MUSIC ITSELF, or it's creation. ALL of which I personally think is GREAT. Blood, Sweat and Tears' first 4 records will go to that Tom Hanks desert island with me ahead of just about anything else in rock music's catalog. The question I want answered is when is the band that made the big splash going to get the chance to tell it's side of the story? (CD linear notes with 3rd and 4th hand accounts don't count). Apparently never.
Kooper's accounting of himself and his personal musical endeavor's however were so captivating and humorous that I checked out his compilation CD (Rare and Well Done) and LOVED it!
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Summary: Finally, a chance to speak my mind!
Review: With the publication of this book, I finally get to answer the questions that NEVER get asked in interviews; the things I really want you to know about the wacky life I have led. My experiences with Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Stones, George Harrison, BB King, Otis Spann, Muddy Waters, and many others are all included in here. It's the unlikely tale of how an ambitious 14 year old busted out of Queens, New York and visited often in the salons and saloons of rock royalty. The sex and drugs are on board, but not grandstanded just for their own sake. But it's the rock n roll that this is mainly about and you can follow it's evolution from infancy in the '50's to just the other day. I want to thank those of you who jumped right up and bought it and apologize to those of you who have to wait a few weeks to receive it because of the back-order situation. Have patience, cause I know you'll really get a chuckle and a little education out of it. Thanks to amazon.com for giving me this cyber soapbox!
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