bassist
For fans who know McKagan primarily as the leather-jacketed bassist from Guns N' Roses, this memoir reveals a far more complex story than the standard rock-and-roll caricature. Yes, the book contains plenty of the expected chaos: booze, fights, endless touring, and the combustible personalities that helped define late-1980s hard
bassist
Kim Gordon does not write like a rock star. She writes like the visual artist she is - detached but precise. Her sentences are sharp and uncluttered. She rarely raises her voice. She doesn’t have to. After her decades as bassist and co-founder of Sonic Youth — this memoir feels
bassist
Acid for the Children drifts, darts, and dances around like jazz improv. I found it was less concerned with chronology and more with sensation, memory, and that electric feeling of becoming. This is not a book about stadium tours, playing bass or even the dominance of the Red Hot Chili
blink-182
I think for a lot of people, Blink-182 were a phase of life. For me, they were burned CDs, house parties, guitars, basements, garages, and hanging out with my friends. I see now, they were a band I blasted when I was too young to fully understand what adulthood would