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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Tommy Lee , Vince Neil , Mick Mars , Nikki Sixx , and Neil Strauss
Manufacturer: Regan Books
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ASIN: 0060989157
Release Date: 2002-07-09

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The most influential, enduring, and iconic metal band of the 1980's reveals everything a tell-all of epic proportions.

This unbelievable autobiography explores the rebellious lives of four of the most influential icons in American rock history.

Motley Crue was the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anointed high priests of backward-masking pentagram rock, pioneers of Hollywood glam, and the creators of MTV's first “power ballad.” Their sex lives claimed celebrities from Heather Locklear to Pamela Anderson to Donna D'Errico. Their scuffles involved everyone from Axl Rose to 2LiveCrew. Their hobbies have included collecting automatic weapons, cultivating long arrest records, pushing the envelope of conceivable drug abuse, and dreaming up backstage antics that would make Ozzy Osbourne blanch with modesty.

Provocatively written and brilliantly designed, this book includes over 100 photos, many never before published, for the most exciting and insightful look ever into the Crue.

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Dirt is really Dirty....and oh, so good!.......2007-06-19

If you are a rocker then you must read this book. They leave nothing out and it opens yours eyes to just what kind of life these crazy people live. This is much better than Tommyland. Much better. If offends, it makes you think and it makes you realize that you may not have been nearly as bad as you thought you were when you were sneaking off with your friends to catch that elusive buzz. I was an angel compared to these dudes, and believe me....I left my mark, but compared to these lunatics Mother Tereasa would have made me Saint Carol of Chesterfield.
Read it, just for the kicks and to make yourself feel a whole lot less like a loser. It sure can't hurt and it is good for a laugh. If you have a pool and a free afternoon then hit the ABC store, drag out your lounge chair and whatever gets you through the Munchies and enjoy an afternoon of pure raunchhy decadence. Everyone needs to get away from the real world for awhile, so why not spend it in Motley Crew's World? You will come out of it smelling like a Rose.

Get the book.......2007-06-12

All I can say is im not a "reader". I barley did the summer reading in High School. This book is approx 350-375 pages. I could of finished it in a day or two. But I pased myself and in two weeks I was done. Incredible read! & I'm not planning on cutting my hair anytime soon!...Just Epic

Fascinating (and Surprising) Read!.......2007-06-07

This book is a real page-turner. Even at over 400 pages, I read it in three settings. What surprised me the most about the book was the honesty that the guys put in, revealing their own insecurities and vulnerabilities. Of course, there's plenty of raucous partying to balance that out.

What I enjoyed most was the narrative style. The book is basically a compilation of interviews with the band members and others who became part of the story. I like how you can get multiple perspectives on the same event.

The epitome of sex, drugs and rock and roll!.......2007-05-25

This was a really good book. I am not a big Crew fan. However, Motley Crew was big when I was a teenager in the 80's. I saw the "Behind the Music" special on them and was intrigued. Any group that is going to get together and write an autobiography should read this book first. This, to me, is the epitome of how a band should write about their life. This was definitely a group effort and every one in the band (and then some) had the opportunity to contribute. The guys in this band lived the ultimate teenagers dream. Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll. They lived the extreme. I am surprised they are still alive. I appreciate their openness and honesty. Nikki did have a rough childhood and it still haunts him. But I think he has come full circle and has quite simply, "grown up". He seems to be the focal point of the group. Very smart and very focused on the band. Tommy, in my opinion, is still a kid. I think prison helped him reflect on his life and make some positive changes though. Vince will probably live with his demons for the rest of his life. Can't say I blame him. And Mick, the myserious one. I think he says a lot keeping quiet. I may not be a fan of their music, but I am definitely a fan of their celebrity. Great work! Highly recommend. You don't have to be a fan to enjoy this book!

the dirt by motley crue.......2007-05-24

this book was AMAZING very interesting and i could not put this book down, this book gives you all the ups and downs of all of there lives. i cannot tell you how great this book was.nikki sixx has had one hell of a life and vinces life has not been the greatest either. i recommend this book to anyone who loves motely crue or heavy metal. this is one of the best books iv ever read.you will want to read this again and again i have.

Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music (Music Culture)

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Jane Goodall of the Indie Rock Show
EMPIRE OF DIRT helps define both the genre and experience
Professor Wendy

Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music (Music Culture)
Wendy Fonarow
Manufacturer: Wesleyan University Press
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ASIN: 0819568112

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Britain is widely considered the cradle of independent music culture. Bands like Radiohead and Belle and Sebastian, which epitomize indie music's sounds and attitudes, have spawned worldwide fanbases. This in-depth study of the British independent music scene explores how the behavior of fans, artists, and music industry professionals produce a community with a specific aesthetic based on moral values. Author Wendy Fonarow, a scholar with years of experience in the various sectors of the indie music scene, examines the indie music "gig" as a ritual in which all participants are actively involved. This ritual allows participants to play with cultural norms regarding appropriate behavior, especially in the domains of sex and creativity. Her investigation uncovers the motivations of audience members when they first enter the community and how their positions change over time so that the gig functions for most members as a rite of passage. Empire of Dirt sheds new light on music, gender roles, emotion, subjectivity, embodiment, and authenticity.

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Jane Goodall of the Indie Rock Show.......2006-12-14

Wendy is the Jane Goodall of the indie rock show. I really enjoyed this anthropological treatment of independent music culture. She definitively describes the impossibly malleable subject of what is Indie. She identifies the zones of audience participation: from the sweaty body on body of the front, to the contemplative middle, to the indifferent bar area, and out to the home parlor of the retired fan.
A guilty pleasure for anyone who knows the scene.

EMPIRE OF DIRT helps define both the genre and experience.......2006-09-24

College-level students of British music won't want to miss EMPIRE OF DIRT: THE AESTHETICS AND RITUALS OF BRITISH INDIE MUSIC. Its analysis blends ethnographic and socio-historic literature on local music communities and genres, comes from a doctor who has worked in the music industry for several major record labels, and offers results from her thirteen-year study of indie rock. From gigs and performances to behavior, norms, and music perceptions from both audience and performer perspective, EMPIRE OF DIRT helps define both the genre and experience of British indie music.

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Professor Wendy.......2006-08-16

A brilliant read. It puts the development of modern individuals, from adolescence to adulthood, into a new meaningful perspective, as well as indie music within the greater context of human activity. I especially enjoyed the examples and anecdotes. The chapter on groupies depicts modern gender roles and attitudes that are too often overlooked in mainstream stereotypes. Her examination of musicians is hilarious as well as therapeutic and identifiable for anyone dissatisfied with the status quo. Her writing articulates the subconsciously absorbed culture and rituals with eloquence, humor, and insight. Her observations and discernment enhance the understanding and experience of music and culture. Thank you, Professor Wendy.

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Dirt Music
Harsh People in a beautiful land
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Dirt Music
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Dirt Music : A Novel
Tim Winton
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Arguably one of the finest of all Australian novelists, Tim Winton shows that he remains in top form with Dirt Music, a wistful, charged, ardent novel of female loss and amatory redemption. The setting is Winton's favorite: the thorn-bushed, sheep-farmed, sun-punished boondocks of Western Australia. The cast is limited but spirited: the two chief protagonists are Georgie Jutland, a fortysomething adoptive mother with a vodka problem, and Luther Fox, a brooding, feral, bushwhacking poacher.

The plot is something else altogether: an elegantly wearied, cleverly finessed mutual odyssey that opts to follow the sometimes intertwining, sometimes diverging lives of poor Georgie and Luther as they try to deal with the odd alliance they comprise, as well as the complex and fractured lives they want to leave behind. The way Georgie deals with her unwitting inheritance of two dissatisfied adopted kids is particularly touching, poignant, and well written.

Best of all, though, is the prose. Somehow it manages to be simultaneously juicy and dry, like a desert cactus. This is especially true when Winton touches on the scented harshness of the Down Under outback: "the music is jagged and pushy and he for one just doesn't want to bloody hear it, but the outbursts of strings and piano are as austere and unconsoling as the pindan plain out there with its spindly acacia and red soil." This is a wise and accomplished novel. --Sean Thomas, Amazon.co.uk

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Winner of The Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Christina Stead Award, WA Premier's Book of the Year, Book Data/ABA Book of the Year Award, Goodreading Award-Readers Choice Book of the Year

Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music tells the story of Luther Fox, a broken man who makes his living as an illegal fisherman -- a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, Fox grew melons and counted stars and loved playing his guitar. Now, his life has become a "project of forgetting." Not until he meets Georgie Jutland, the wife of White Point's most prosperous fisherman, does Fox begin to dream again and hear the dirt music -- "anything you can play on a verandah or porch," he tells Georgie, "without electricity." Like the beat of a barren heart, nature is never silent. Ambitious and perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense, emotion, and timeless truths.

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Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman - a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain. One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox above all. But she's never fully settled into Jim's grand house on the water or into the inbred community with its history of violent secrets. After Georgie encounters Fox, her tentative hold on conventional life is severed. Neither of them would call it love, but they can't stay away from each other no matter how dangerous it is - and out on White Point it is very dangerous. Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music. Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity." Even in the wild, Luther cannot escape it. There is, he discovers, no silence in nature. Ambitious, perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense and supercharged emotion -- and it confirms Tim Winton's status as the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation. "

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Dirt Music.......2006-06-11

A thoroughly absorbing read that combines funny, sharp-tongued dialogue with rich descriptions of the harsh and beautiful natural environment of Australia. Sympathetic characters try to come to terms with difficult pasts and follow their hearts to live in tune with their own natures. It's about love, and how it gets inside us to compel actions without choice.

Georgie falters from one ill-fitting relationship to another, until she ends up moving in with Jim Buckridge, a widower with two scrappy sons and a very successful fishing business in a small town on the Western coast of Australia. The Buckridges are a prominent family there, and Georgie becomes by day the caretaker of children, home, and man. At night, she tries to quiet her inner restlessness with alcohol and long hours on the Internet, until one night she takes her restlessnes outside to the beach, where she happens upon the truck and dog of a fisherman poacher. She trades the Internet for watching this man's activities, befriending the dog and following him until she discovers where he lives. Her fascination with Lu Fox takes her into a new kind of relationship, and Winton renders well the effortless obsession of love. Lu has a tragic family history of his own, which drives him to abandon the music he once prenaturally played with his dead relatives.

More than a love story, though, this chronicle of tragedy and loss steers its characters through the contrasting diversities of human adaptations from small town to urban to solitary scavenging on the harsh coastal landscape. And despite human missteps and loss, there is in Winton's vision the possibility for redemption.

Harsh People in a beautiful land.......2006-03-23

White Point seemed like the kind of place anyone would want to live as long as you could get rid of the people. Fascinating how the author, Tim Winton, chose to populate a beautiful coastal town with mean and nasty people. Makes you wonder as you read the book if the harshness of eking out an existence in White Point, with the intense heat and the demanding fishing industry, results in harsh people.

I must confess that of the two protagonists, Georgie and Lu, I empathized more with Lu. He was a man with real, heart rendering pain in his life; an Australian Job. Winton seems to take Lu to the edge of death in order for Lu to bury the dead and return to the living. As a counterpoint, Georgie, a nurse surrounded by the pain and death of patients, loses her desire to really live. She moves in with a widower because she pities him. What she doesn't realize is that he invited her because he pitied her. Pity, they realize, is a poor foundation for a relationship.

When Georgie and Lu meet by accident, it sets in motion the events that will transform and heal them.

Finest kind of reading.......2005-12-03

Winton is a best-selling, prize-winning writer in Australia and you don't need to do more than read Dirt Music to know why. I'm hesitant to describe this novel because it's chock full of themes, threads and texts. Yes, there's the astonishing landscape of Australia, and music, fisherman and women, wives and husbands, fueds and death, and more. Hugely entertaining book in the do-not-miss-it category. Meanwhile, I'm off to read more Winton just as soon as I can!

Dirt Music.......2005-10-02

I bought this book as a gift for a friend in the US because I had recently visited the Kimberly region and thought that it perfectly evoked the scene and people.

A wonderful read.......2005-01-30

Having never read anything by Tim Winton prior to picking up this book two weeks ago, I had no expectations whatsoever. However, from the first page I was drawn into his tale and suffered several near sleepless nights as a result of not being able to put the book down. The characters, location and plot are all highly believable AND interesting. His descriptions of the landscape just made me want to go back to Western Aus and explore more vigorously. Having lived and worked for a short time in the gold mining industry in that state, I can assure the reader that Mr. Winton captures the essence of this land and it's people. It is a truely great book and I will be reading all of his other works.

Alice In Chains - Dirt* (Guitar Recorded Versions)

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Alice In Chains - Dirt* (Guitar Recorded Versions)
Alice In Chains
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
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ASIN: 0793520282

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Matching folio to the album featuring 12 cuts transcribed note for note with tablature by Andy Robyns. Songs include: Would? * Them Bones * Angry Chair * Dirt * and more.

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Outstanding.......2004-07-23

After getting hosed on the internet by people claiming to have perfect pitch then tabbing out something totally off key, this book is a ray of light in a world of internet tone deafness.

A great band and a great book!.......2000-05-09

Alice in Chains proved to be one of the most influencial bands of the Grunge era of music, and this book helps show you why! A spectacular array of well written and tight songs are displayed in a format that is easy to read and understand. Anyone looking to play something new should give this book a try. It's highly recommended for all levels of playing experience. Even if you're a beginner, you'll be playing "Rooster" in no time!

Accurate.......2000-03-30

This book is a must have for Alice n' chains fans. Very accurate. Good buy!

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Paul McCartney - Flowers in the Dirt
Paul McCartney
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Matching folio to the critically acclaimed 1989 album from this legendary artist. 14 songs, including the single "My Brave Face."

From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music

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From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music
John Wooley
Manufacturer: Hawk Publishing Group
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Binding: Paperback

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Highlighting the musical currents that have swept from Oklahoma across the world, it traces the tributaries of individual style and talent as they merge to form the river of songs unique to Oklahoma'ss rich culture. John Wooley paints a vivid panorama of the artists, the business behind the scenes, and the strong sense of community they share. From the jazz influence of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils to the power of western swing, the Tulsa Sound, Red Dirt, and a growing list of mega-country stars, he captures the explosion of musicians who transformed their Oklahoma energy and soul into magic on stages across the world.

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Thrilling to the last drop

Music Like Dirt
Frank Bidart
Manufacturer: Sarabande Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Frank Bidart writes of Music Like Dirt, "I wanted to make a sequence in which the human need to make is seen as not only central but inescapable. I wanted not a tract, but a tapestry in which making is seen in the context of the other processes-sexuality, mortality-inseparable from it."

"Bidart has patiently amassed as profound and original a body of work as any now being written in this country. He has given form for our age to what is most urgent and most private in the human soul: the ordeals of solitude and mortality and hunger and, recently, that action through which being speaks: the drive to make or create. Bidart's poems sound like no one else's; they look like no one else's. . . . He is, in the feeling of our jury, one of the great poets of our time."-Louise Gluck, jury chair, 2001 Wallace Stevens Award The Academy of American Poets

The inaugural edition in Sarabande's Quarternote Chapbook Series which will feature a select group of poets by invitation only

Frank Bidart's collections of poetry include Desire (1997), which received the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize; In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990); The Sacrifice (1983); The Book of the Body (1977); and Golden State (1973). Among his many honors are the Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and the Lannan Literary Award. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Thrilling to the last drop.......2002-04-17

I wish Bidart were more prolific, but on the bright side, each rare collection is an irresistible distillation of some thought-elixir. "Music Like Dirt" treats how humans are essentially art-making, art-sharing creatures. Since this is Bidart, we get both the good and evil consequences of this impulse - the grotesques along with the geniuses - in language that is simple, clear, but also finely wrought and deeply emotional.

Note that this is a chapbook, so even though it's beautifully printed it still has something of a flimsy feeling... It's perfectly sized and shaped to be a little gift to the favorite creative or artistic person in your life.

The real standouts in the collection, "For the Twentieth Century," "Advice to the Players," and "Lament for the Makers," are all available online, albeit coarsened by lousy layout and banner ads. Don't just read them quickly at your desk; print them out and read them somewhere peaceful in solitude, and you will probably end up wanting to buy the book anyway, they're that good.

Dirt music
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Dirt music

Manufacturer: Picador
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DIRT MUSIC
WINTON TIM
Manufacturer: PICADOR (AUSTRALIA)
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ASIN: B000SA6ZQA

Flowers in the Dirt
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Flowers in the Dirt
Paul McCartney
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Publishing
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Binding: Sheet music
ASIN: B000JN3MQ2

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My Brave Face, Rough Ride, You Want Her Too, Distractions, We Got Married, Put it There, Figure of Eight, This One, Don't Be Careless Love, That Day is Done, How Many People, Motor of Love, Ou Est Le Soleil?, Flying To My Home

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