Bøger udgivet af Far West Press

A rough and tumble collection of memories, poetry, and fiction from Sonny Vincent, the legendary underground rock ''n'' roller. Slinging newspapers at Playland.Meditations on Formica.Loud nights at Max''s and C.B.G.B.''s.Evil karma from Page 1.The Moon Ticket & Sterling from the Velvet Underground.Playing Wipe Out on your stomach.Get ready.His writing debut is fast, raw, and wild.

This irreverent musical memoir is a heady journey from the imagined mountains of rural Illinois to the grime of the Windy City, and onto the subterranean sonic landscapes of Japan and the UK. Psychedelic svengali Plastic Crimewave is creator of the celebrated hallucinogenic Galactic Zoo Dossier 'zine and the 20-years-running Secret History of Chicago Music column in the Chicago Reader-not to mention​ acid-punkin' bandleader, conductor of guitar orchestras, and booker of the international-freak-spanning Million Tongues festivals. Tune out, turn on, and drop in for decadent tales of rock gods, folk legends, underground underdogs, avant garde gurus, mass murderers, tours gone wrong, and working in a record shop in ye olde edgy 90s and beyond. Includes personal photos and artwork/ephemera from the PCW archives.

Peter Crowley, the music curator of Max's Kansas City, tells it like it is in his first volume of stories. A teenage runaway from Vermont who has seen it all from the West Village in the 1960s to the color sound of California to managing and booking bands during the punk explosion of the 1970s. Like a beer for a breakfast, a reflection on what it was really like to be there (you know where). From someone who was.

Do you feel it? I''m holding your hand. Come with me. Look! There''s a mirror, many mirrors! They are watching us, but we don''t have to care. This night belongs to us. This infinity. Come! ... World! Just watch us...as we prowl the arcades of fallen memory...