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03-03-2010, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Savannah, Georgia USA | | | For you book readers,,,recommend a good biography on a Bass player
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Im in the mood for a good book to read. I prefer biographies right now. Iver read the book on Jaco..and recently the book on McCartney just released recently.
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03-03-2010, 02:57 PM
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03-03-2010, 02:59 PM
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Artist:TC Electronic RH450 bass system | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Fort Madison, IA | | | Not really a biography..but "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten. |
03-03-2010, 03:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: DC Region | | Jack Bruce has a new "Authorized Biography" out call "Composing Himself" http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Bruce-Com...dp/1906002266/
I just started reading it but it's good so far...
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03-03-2010, 03:16 PM
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03-03-2010, 03:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | It's not about a bass player, but Miles Davis' autobigraphy is a GREAT read. He holds nothing back. |
03-03-2010, 03:20 PM
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Artist:TC Electronic RH450 bass system | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Fort Madison, IA | | | Just read the Johnny Cash biography....Very interesting for ALL musicians. |
03-03-2010, 03:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Mukilteo, Washington. USA | | I highly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Am-Blues-Willi...7654925&sr=1-1
Not a lot of bass specific content but it's a great read. There's also an album/CD by that title that was originally released in 1970 as I recall. I wore out my vinyl copy so I bought the CD.
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03-03-2010, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Garden City, MI | | "White Line Fever: The Autobiography" by Lemmy Kilmister http://www.amazon.com/White-Line-Fev...7658769&sr=8-1
Great read, very entertaining!
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03-03-2010, 04:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: London | | | Nikki Six 'The Heroin Diaries' he's the bass player from Motley Crue. Not much on music in the book but an amazing/disturbing/hillarious book. The Jaco book is great. I'll second the recomendation on the Miles Autobiog. |
03-03-2010, 04:41 PM
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03-14-2010, 10:19 PM
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03-14-2010, 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by rubber_ritchie  Nikki Six 'The Heroin Diaries' he's the bass player from Motley Crue. Not much on music in the book but an amazing/disturbing/hillarious book. The Jaco book is great. I'll second the recomendation on the Miles Autobiog. | Agreed, I really enjoyed this one.
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03-14-2010, 10:45 PM
| | | | never thought i'd dig it, but i was handed a copy of david lee roth's "crazy from the heat" a few years back, and was totally knocked out. everybody i turned on to it- classical and jazz players, lawyers, people i wouldn't think would dig it- were all amazed. |
03-15-2010, 02:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: U.K. | | | Not so much a biography, but very entertaining is Tony Levin's Beyond The Bass Clef. On the more autobiographical side, but still very entertaining is Guy Pratt's My Bass and Other Animals.
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03-15-2010, 05:37 AM
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A great read. There is also a biography of him by one of his mistresses ( forgot both the title and her name, my bad) that was a great read. You thought Jaco had issues? |
03-15-2010, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jgsbass Beneath the Underdog
Charles Mingus | +1 |
03-15-2010, 08:35 PM
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03-16-2010, 05:49 AM
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