Books you have enjoyed from the past

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Okay let me see what I have got here today?:

"Play Rock Guitar Today" sounds promising eh?

It was published in 1979 and it shows ;) but having said that I thought some of you may enjoy the pictures and the songs.

The book itself is from one of my students, he is fifteen, and I am sure it is one of the books his dad used, as his dad is in his late 40s and plays guitar and bass as well.

First some of the pictures for you:

there is Ron Wood,Jeff Beck, Peter Frampton, J.J. Cale,Mike Oldfield, Tom Petty, there is Jimmy Page with a beard! Marc Bolan, Mick and Keith[they sure would'nt miss our glimmer twins eh?] Justin Haywood of the Moody Blues, Ritchie Blackmore, Steve Hillage in one of his more sober and inspired moments, Ted Nugent, Frank Zappa and Pete Townsend sporting long hair.

All the usuall suspects eh? But nice to look at these picture, even if you do not care that much for picking up the guitar, you may still like watching the pictures. They tell so much from a time which is gone [snif]

Along with the players there are pictures of amps[Labseries] and effect units [one being a lovely echoplex and the other two of a Maestro Fuzz and Phaser] Again if you do not care that much for playing, just looking at the effects may make you want to pick up a guitar and make some noise.................

As it is I have not that much time today, tomorrow I will give some quotes from the book, just to show the kind of language people used in those days [heh it is not all that long ago, I was just 11 at the time the book came out, and I can still remember some of the charthits from 1979, one of them being "I was made for Loving You Baby" from Kiss, used to like the solo, thought at the time it really sounded evil and dark, these days I percieve it differently, but that is time eh?]

Okay in the meantime while I am away, post some of your favourite books from the past, anything we can laugh about or perhaps something which is ace just for its educational purposes.

Cheers

Eddie :)
 
"Guitars", by Tom and Mary Ann Evans, devotes a long chapter to the Gibson Mark series of acoustics, which was supposed to revolutionize the industry. Never mind that the production was labor-intensive, or that they were ugly (pink binding?), or that the sound didn't live up to the hype....I think I saw the last Mark in a store sometime around 1983. Tom Wheeler's "Guitar Book" is full of photos of '70's oddities: Acoustic amps, Mu-tron pedals, Lab Series amps (those were dark days for Gibson, weren't they?) and other esoterica.

Alas: why are we not now as happy as the retailers promised we'd be with all those goodies?
 
Great Book!

"The Complete BEATLES Recording Sessions"...the story of abbey road '62-'70
by Mark Lewisohn. A behind the scenes look at the songs and the method of recording. Very great and unbiased by one of the engineers.
 
lpdeluxe said:
Alas: why are we not now as happy as the retailers promised we'd be with all those goodies?

Good question, very deep one as well. So we can buy anything we want but we are still not satisfied.....................

Sometimes I wish we only saw Fenders and Gibson guitars and Fender and Marhall amps around. Imagine a Soviet State, where we could only get Fenders, Gibsons and Marshalls..............very,very unrealistic, yes I know, it would also be boring...............................

Who makes classic designs these days?

Will the Cybertwin become one? NO

What about the Line-6 model guitars, who would go for these things after 20 years?.....................They will be surpassed by.......................

Okay I know oldfashioned views here, but still.................why do we have ampmodeling systems which bring us the classics of 20, 30 years ago? Is it because we can not think of betters amps these days................

Should be posting more about this book, but perhaps some more of that tomorrow................

Eddie :)
 
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