Elvis: The King Remembered by Susan Moyer is the rags-to-riches story of one of America's most influential and beloved figures of American music and popular culture. It is now 25 years since the death of Elvis Presley on August 16, 1977, and yet his legend continues to grow and attract new generations to his music, his performance stylings, and his mercurial life story. A "must" for the legions of Elvis fans everywhere, Elvis: The King Remembered is enhanced with an accompanying CD developed by Elvis Presley authority Jerry Osborne comprising Elvis interviews and reactions.

I found this book a pleasure to read.The photographs are top notch, and there is plenty of information for all levels. I found plenty of sound buying tips and lots of resources.

I definately find this book very useful, mostly if you want to improve the quality of the songs that you are currently playing. In many cases, we limite the performance because we do not remember or know more complicated chords that help to improve the sound. This book helped me to enlarge my personal music encyclopedia. No doubt about it...buy it!

This book gives a description of numerous rock & gem types, along with characteristics, pictures, geography, etc. Good book for someone just starting out in the world of rocks. However, it is not helpful for someone with prior knowledge. It is a beginners level book and a really good one at that.

I just received this book last week after placing an order for it on September 27th 2002! What an incredible read. I have followed all three of these bands from the start. The book is very well written (thank you David!) and will give long-time fans a deeper perception of where the three bands are coming from. They all have had very quirky, interesting lives (to say the least ;~) Also includes some excellent photographs of all three bands (including some incredible photos of the Nurses house and yard) A must have for any serious fan of Coil, C93 & NWW. GET IT WHILE IT LASTS!!!

"The Eric Clapton Guitar Collection" is a wonderful and impressive piece of work. It gives you the impression that Clapton has really produced a fine body of work and this just covers the first twenty-five years or so. The transcriptons are accurate and large enough to be easily read and printed on quality paper all in an attractive slipbox . When one couples this with his "Crossroads" CD set and the "Unplugged" CD you have perhaps one of the finest instructional guitar packages available.Oh yea, there is also a fine five page introduction and a brief page on Eric's guitar style!

I am personally a huge doors fan. When I saw LA woman on here, I knew I had to have it. So I bought it immediately, I recommend it to even the beginner bassists out there. Great Book.

At a time when music criticism has degenerated into little more than fawning declarations of "best ever", "profound", "unique" and any other in-the-service-of-sales bromide you can stomach, it becomes even more important to take serious note of what comes from people who truly love music.

As he tells us early on, Archie Patterson was raised on records. Music is such a big part of his life that he turns out to be the right man at the right time. Because, while the U.S. might have been drowning in disco during the 1970s, Europe was the home of some of the most compelling, innovative and advanced bands to ever perform or record. Compelling and important enough to lead to the publication of Eurock, which stands far apart in the world of fanzines as an authentic journal of the people, the bands and the ideas that continue to inform and shape the many forms of alternative music today.

The 700+ pages of "Eurock, European Rock & the Second Culture" is nothing short of the definitive word on alternative, experimental and progressive European music written from the perspective of listeners and enthusiasts committed to furthering the cause of an alternative music and the culture it represents. The book's scope is encyclopedic, providing criticism, reviews and interviews with artists and groups, articles on independent labels, technology and instrumentation. The book even offers a rare article by Lester Bangs on Amon Duul.

Organized by years, from 1973 - 2002, this book provides information about virtually every important and not-so-important independent and alternative artist you could hope to read about from Europe, the U.S., Japan and points beyond. But much more than music comes through. As the title implies, the writings in this book are part of a time of profound cultural change which was in many ways inseparable from the music in question. Patterson asks us to look not only at the music, but at the social and cultural context of what helped make such music possible, and do so through the voices of the musicians and their audience. It is this aspect of "Eurock, European Rock & the Second Culture" that makes it such an important and authoritative collection of thoughts and observations of music and how music operates in the world. And what you'll find is simply that what mattered in the early 1970s continues to matter today, and will always matter to those that understand music to be more than entertainment or distraction.

So while the current crop of self-styled critics can spare us only a minute or two to tell us and sell us that something is "great" while they already have their eyes and ears on whatever the industry tells them is "next", pull out your copy of Eurock and spend your time with the people and ideas that have remained true to music, for the love of music, for more than three decades.

Should you buy this book? If you have more than a passing interest in The Beatles, musicology, psychedelics or/and music theory, the answer is an unequivocal "Yes!"

"Every Sound There Is," a compilation of 14 chapters, illustrates a variety of standpoints on The Beatles' "Revolver."

I am particularly fascinated with the analytical approach to popular music and text traditionally implemented by classically trained musicologists, a project my college instructors would never have undertaken or assigned during the 1970s. Analysis was then based on the three "B's": Bach, Beethoven and Brahms; now we have a fourth "B."

Being a classically trained musician, I find it difficult to evaluate how a layman would appreciate some of the more musically technical passages in "Every Sound There Is." However, I think most readers will get the gist of the articles, even if they are not familiar with technical terms like a "I IV V progression" or "plagal cadence."

Ron Schleifer's "The Beatles, Postmodernism, an ill-tempered musical form," which compares "Revolver" to postmodernism, was harder to understand, but his thesis remains intriguing nonetheless.

Interestingly, the commentaries remain consistent in evaluating the meaning of the music and lyrics, in determining how each cut works with the others, and in the historical significance of the recording itself.

I gained a number of important insights from reading this book, including a new appreciation of "Revolver" as a work of art. I had heard the album hundreds of times, but I never actually "listened" to it.

After reading a couple of chapters of "Every Sound There Is," I sat down with headphones and gave the CD my undivided attention. The result was nothing less than astonishing. I am now at an existential crossroads: which monumental album is better, "Sgt. Pepper" or "Revolver"?

Read "Every Sound There Is" and decide for yourself.

Chet Flippo is an excellent writer--I am not a musician, but I found his interviews with Les Paul and Chet Atkins fascinating. You will learn much about the history of the electric guitar. You will also find some lesser known chapters in rock history--an insider's glimpse of the Rolling Stone's efforts to win permission to tour China, what it was like to hang out with John Lennon, life with Jerry Lee Lewis and more.