I started to listen to Santana's music when I first listened to Smooth. The feeling and energy that Carlos Santana gives can not be found from the others. This book is really great. The tabs are accurate. You are not just playing Santana's song with this book, but also practicing your guitar skills. You can play the sounds what you listen from the CD. This book is not just a must-have for Santana's fans but also for all guitar lovers.

Santana and his great music are back. All I can say is that this book is excelent. If you want to play Santana's songs like they really are played, I recommend this item. The transcriptions are accurate and reliable. This is a "must have" item for Santana's fans.

I think this series is awesome. It's a great series to keep kids away from the occult ect. cause it shows you how bad it can get. I know it will sure keep me from it.

"The Scream" is definitely Bill's number one Forbidden Doors book...so far. It is full of Biblical principles from the beginning. All the way from Scott's compromising his beliefs to get in good with the band to Rebecca's spiritual love for Mike-plus her little mess-up.

This book is fabulous primary source material for those interested in the emergence and maturity of the punk subculture. Jon Savage's book (England's Dreaming) tells the history of the scene nicely, but THIS reprint gives some real insight into the attitudes and motivations of the kids who were involved, and adds the American perspective. Some of the characters from the 70's punk scene were just into looking cool and partying, and some were really interested in music or politics, but the common theme here is youth's feeling of alienation from the rest of society. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

This is a reprinting of an amazing San Fransico 'zine from the late Seventies. There is incredible, otherwise unavailable coverage here of many obscure West Coast Punk groups, with helpful scene reports from around the US and the world, essays on early Punk culture and politics, and impressive artwork and photos. The interviews are unique and far from obvious, providing insights into the personalities (and record collections!) of many important musicians. Impressive interviews with Pere Ubu, Dev-o (before they signed to WB), and the Screamers, among many other groups. This book also provides a detailed look into the S.F. and L.A. Punk scenes (who partied where with whom and what happened). I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the wild west Coast Punk culture of the late Seventies. Flaws? No info on the Deadbeats, Pink Section, The Units, or Los Microwaves (though it has pictures of Pink Section and the Units in #'s 7-11).

Great read by one the best biographers in the business. I'd even let Terrill write my life story!

Keep up the good work Marshall. I can't wait for the Pete Maravich book!

I had the priviledge to know Rex And Elizabeth Mansfield when my husband was stationed in Germany in the early 90's. They are wonderful people and some of the most down-to- earth people I know. It was exciting to read about a time in their lives that I never really knew about. I knew Elizabeth had dated Elvis but did not realize how close they both were to him. I read every word knowing that it was true because I knew the writers. It gives youa great insight to realize that behind every famous person is just that, a real person, warts and all. I encourage every fan of Elvis to read this book because it is written by people who knew him and loved him.

Just what was needed to get excited prior to going climbing in the Gunks. A book of fantastic photography and detail. A masterpiece as far as I am concerned in the climbing world. Unfortunatly all of skytop is now closed to public climbing and a large portion of this books climbs are based on the skytop area. Anyway this book is a must for your cocktail table if your a climber....

This book is a must for anyone who has spent time climbing, hiking, or simply hanging out in the Gunks. It provides a wonderful history of the preserve, and the photgraphs are incredible. While the faces have changed, the rock has not. The book is mostly pictures, but I seemed to spend hours looking over the same pictures of what I have found to be one of the greatest places on earth. The author traces the steps of all the original Gunks pioneers, and I found that knowing more about the history made the climbing that much more enjoyable. If you found a copy of this book, latch onto it--it's amazing.

Dick Williams' guide books are important and essential reading for the occasional rock climbing, i.e. almost everybody who climbs. The older editions of this book which combine all three climbing areas has become quite a collectors item, one I am proud to own in addition to this title, the one I actually haul up the rock. GD

Written by the Vulgarian that did a lot of the development in the Gunks, this guide gives details for every pitch including protection ratings for each pitch. Swain's guide is often difficult to determine when a pitch ends and starts and only gives protection ratings for the whole climb. This leads to confusion at times with a 5.8 climb being rated G that may have a 5.4 or 5.6 pitch which is R or PG. The downside to Williams's guide is that you have to buy a separate book for the Near Trapps and Skytop/Millbrook. If you plan on spending a lot of time at the Gunks, go with Williams. Otherwise, Swain's guide is adequate and it covers everything but Millbrook.

I have never seen such a well done rock art book. It has a good section on styles and fillowing the Rio Grande drainage all the way to Texas. The maps, drawings, and photos are numerous and helpful.

Relative to his work for the state of New Mexico as a water resource geologist, Slifer sees that "one of the principal ideas conveyed by rock art is a sense of place in the landscape...the creation of people who knew intimately their surroundings...they were keenly aware of territory since they walked everywhere; they knew which way the water ran because it was a life-sustaining element." The book includes descriptions of more than a hundred rock art sites in the region beginning near the headwaters of the Rio Grande in Colorado and progressing downstream through New Mexico to south of El Paso, Texas, with more than 300 illustrations, selected not only to represent the various styles, but to be visually interesting and when possible, not previously published. Some relatively unknown sites are presented from more than a decade of fieldwork in the region. Drawings are used when the rock art is so deteriorated that it doesn't photographs well. It begins with background information on the land and its people, progresses to a discussion of rock art styles, then goes to specific sites, first in the Ancestral Pueblo area, then the Mogollon. The last chapter is about public sites, for those who have no local informants to lead them to lesser known ones. As would be expected, throughout the book Slifer ties the rock art to the landscape, as well as the culture. This is a thoroughly researched, well-written, gracefully presented book, a must-have guide to the region for anyone interested in its rock art.

This is a fabulous story and a wonderful book! I wish that Michael Sinclair had used his own artwork for the cover, though.

I confess. I purchased Sisyphus Rocks because I found out that Michael Sinclair is really composer, arranger, producer Mark Wirtz. (I'm not giving away a secret here. The blurb on the back of the book reveals Michael's past.) Though admittedly a bit sceptical at first, I was banking on the hope that if a man can write some of the most memorable music of all time, it may just be possible that he can pull off the same feat in prose.

To say that I was right would be an under statement of unfortunate proportions. This is one of the most inventive books I've read since Flann O'Brien's 'The Third Policeman' and it has some similarities to Mr. O'Brien's master work:

Ultimately 'Sisyphus Rocks' is a tale in the 'Alice In Wonderland' vein. Things never go right for this Alice (composer, arranger, producer Philip Benson) and Benson has no control over the author's ability to introduce character after character: an over the top Mad Hatter (producer Biff King), the wise Cheshire Cat (publisher Vito Lorenzo), the evil Queen of Hearts (record label owner Arnold Goldman). Only the music business could produce fictional characters this real.

Like Alice, Phil Benson is the victim of crazy event after crazy event. Only in this story they are the very real events of a very adult world: car crashes, career crashes, legal problems, death, destruction, love, loss, lies and murder. In this book (and in real life) 1979 was not a good year for the music business.

So where does this leave us?

In its simplest form 'Sisyphus Rocks' is the story of Phil Benson's involvement in a plot to kill singer Rita Blossom. But this not so simple story is presented in a way that only a talented writer (and insider) could muster. In musical terms, this book has more twists than Chubby Checker performed in a lifetime. And yet the story somehow gets signed, sealed and delivered in a neat (albiet explosive) little package.

The man who brought us Grocer Jack (his 1967 mega hit) has left Teenage Operas behind for an incredibly seedy and sad adult world.

This book is highly recommended. While you are shopping buy the CDs of Mark Wirtz. You'll need to provide your own sound track for this movie.

This was a great Strange Matter book! In it, a kid takes home some rocks he shouldn't have, and these blobs come out. It's really good. Does anyone know how I could contact the authors of this book so it can be back in print? E-mail me at mstone32@yahoo.com if you think you know.

It is a very good book. Only one other series out of all thee others is Mindwarp. I've read Goosebumps and other stuff like that, but these are the best! I have read 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 27. There are good because they stick to the same town, somtimes the same characters unlike Goosebumps. I think the series is very good. Scary and funny at the same time. Hopefully I'l read more. So long folks. By Jared