I'll start with an obvious one. Great read.
I believe nobel winner bob dylan wrote a few good books.
>>24844183Used to read this as a kid thinking he was "literally me"
I read this when my wish was to be a composer at some point, it put me off.
>>24844249Should've started with Models for Beginners in Composition
this is mildly entertaining but not as good as I expected, mostly just a bunch of touring anecdotes and some rants about topical subjects
>>24844316Interesting, I would have thought it to have le randumb wacky humor scrawled across each page, but then I remember he wanted to be taken seriously most of the time.
Its pretty solid southern Gothic worship
>>24844249I'm gonna look that up
frog eyes frontman carey mercer has a collection called 'clouds of evil' with some bizarre short stories, personal essays, and blog posts. i love his writing.
>>24844330Actually I'm looking through it again and it's better than I remember, maybe I was in a bad mood when I read it? It's worth reading, it's just that the humor and idioms are extremely dated. And prepare for a lot of "we live in a society" type stuff.
Not a RHCP fan but it was unironically a fun read.
>>24844183Fahey is actually a pretty good writer (kinda unsurprisingly I guess)Other than that I guess Wagner was decent
>>24844208>get in the van
>>24845068No idea this existed, great late Christmas pick. Thanks.
>>24844613I like their early stuff and the fact Mr. Kiedis bangs 19 year olds, but their output since the late 90s has been subpar.
>>24845117Looking back, Rollins comes off like Dostoyevsky's underground man on a fuckton of steroids.
>>24844183I'm writing a theoretical treatise and making a computer program for set theory (set theory is the study of scales in their prime forms). >>24844249if you can teach yourself everything about music from textbooks and sheet music, I advise against wasting your money and time pursuing it in an academic setting.
has anyone here read Jamie Stewart's book?
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>>24845696Yeah, in fact I/m reading it right now. Depraved shit
>>24844183The short story from that book about the drunk waking up on his brothers couch to the niece he's supposed to be babysitting having a train run on her by some street rats still haunts me.
>>24845749best answer ITT. what an amazing writer he was.
>>24844316I find Zappa very readable and I like that book a lot. This one is also very good. It says on the sleeve that Co de Kloet is a musician but I don't know his music, in any case much of the text is transcripts of Zappa answering his questions. It reads well as a more freewheeling companion to TRFZB. Includes some discussions with people who worked with Zappa as well, including Kent Nagano, who provides a very interesting perspective on Zappa as a musician.
>>24844249If you want less technical and more personal Schoenberg, this is an excellent collection.
>>24844183Gira is an embarrassment to the human race.
>>24846592Just another edgy tryhard like Boyd Rice.
>>24846453what kind of depravity? is it any good? do you like his prose?
>>24844183>>24846592Hi, Michael Gira here.Thank you for reading my book.
>>24847346I didn't read it, Michael
bumpp
>>24847346It was great seeing you in concert Micheal, I'll check out your book
"Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Moynihan. Pretty fun read about the black metal retards in Norway.
>>24844183We made a chart some time ago, but I can't find it in my archives. Maybe go ask /mu/
>>24845136hey sweetie that's a DVD
>>24845068cool, didn't know fahey wrote.
>>24845749>>24847738will I like reading these even though I know jack shit about music theory and classical music?
>>24851746If you don't know but are interested in learning, I think Rosen is worth your time. He gives a robust understanding of where the Classical style came from, how it developed, the culture and times in which it flourished. There are copious musical examples with analysis, but even if you don't read music or know much theory there's still plenty of history to dig into. Rosen's prose is highly readable and elegant too.
"How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life: Stories by John Fahey"Brilliant musician, probably my favorite. Strange, sad man. Spent years in poverty and a declining mental state until 90s alternative rockers dug him out of obscurity, at which point he had a bit of a resurgence and made a bunch of terrible avant garage ambient music. Responsible for reviving the careers of old bluesmen like Bukka White and Son House himself. Has stories of getting drunk and hopping freight trains with Bukka White from his youth, when he'd travel south and search for old blues records by going door to door in poor black neighborhoods. He was an atheist, but had a lot of religious interests, including gnosticism. Many of his works were based on old Southern spirituals, as well as Protestant hymns. When I was in my 20s I once spent two years listening only to his records and learning his "American Primitive" style of finger picking. I've never read the book.
>>24851844There's a good documentary film about his life called In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey, too.
>>24845068Oops
>>24851821thanks, I might give it a try
