Working For The Man Playing In The Band

Author : Damon Wood,Phil Carson
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781773051642

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Working for the Man, Playing in the Band by Damon Wood,Phil Carson Pdf

A white rock ’n’ roll guitarist on stage with the Godfather of Soul In this unvarnished account of toiling under one of popular music’s most notorious bosses, Damon Wood details his six years spent playing guitar for James Brown’s Soul Generals. In a memoir certain to fascinate Mr. Dynamite’s millions of fans, as well as musicians and industry insiders, Wood recalls how a chance encounter with James Brown led him to embrace soul and funk music under the tutelage of its greatest progenitor. Numerous interviews with bandmates provide multiple perspectives on James Brown’s complex character, his leadership of his band, the nature of soul and funk, and insights and sometimes harsh lessons learned along the way. This is a sideman’s story of the gritty reality of working close to the spotlight but rarely in it. Damon Wood describes life on the road — often on James Brown’s infamous tour bus — with one guitar, a change of clothes, and two dozen comrades-in-arms as they brought the funk to clubs, theaters, and the biggest music festivals on earth. Working for James Brown could be fear-inducing, inspiring, exhilarating, and exasperating — all in the space of a single performance.

Author : Damon Wood,Phil Carson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 0369315596

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Working for the Man, Playing in the Band by Damon Wood,Phil Carson Pdf

In this unvarnished account of toiling under one of popular music's most notorious bosses, Damon Wood details his six years spent playing guitar for James Brown's Soul Generals.In a memoir certain to fascinate Mr. Dynamite's millions of fans, as well as musicians and industry insiders, Wood recalls how a chance encounter with James Brown led him to embrace soul and funk music under the tutelage of its greatest progenitor. Numerous interviews with bandmates provide multiple perspectives on James Brown's complex character, his leadership of his band, the nature of soul and funk, and insights and sometimes harsh lessons learned along the way.This is a sideman's story of the gritty reality of working close to the spotlight but rarely in it. Damon Wood describes life on the road - often on James Brown's infamous tour bus - with one guitar, a change of clothes, and two dozen comrades-in-arms as they brought the funk to clubs, theaters, and the biggest music festivals on earth. Working for James Brown could be fear-inducing, inspiring, exhilarating, and exasperating - all in the space of a single performance.

Author : Mart Crowley
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640041

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The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley Pdf

"Full length, drama / 9 m / interior"--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Jude Warne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538120965

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America, the Band by Jude Warne Pdf

As if recovering from a raucous dream of the 1960s, Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek arrived on 1970s American radio with a sound that echoed disenchanted hearts of young people everywhere. The three American boys had named their band after a country they’d watched and dreamt of from their London childhood Air Force base homes. What was this country? This new band? Classic and timeless, America embodied the dreams of a nation desperate to emerge from the desert and finally give their horse a name. Celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell share stories of growing up, growing together, and growing older. Journalist Jude Warne weaves original interviews with Beckley, Bunnell, and many others into a dynamic cultural history of America, the band, and America, the nation. Reliving hits like “Ventura Highway,” “Tin Man,” and of course, “A Horse with No Name” from their 19 studio albums and incomparable live recordings, this book offers readers a new appreciation of what makes some music unforgettable and timeless. As America’s music stays in rhythm with the heartbeats of its millions of fans, new fans feel the draw of a familiar emotion. They’ve felt it before in their hearts and thanks to America, they can now hear it, share it, and sing along.

Author : Randy Shilts
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780285640764

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And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts Pdf

In 1981, the year when AIDS came to international attention, Randy Shilts was employed by the San Francisco Chronicle as the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues. He quickly devoted himself to reporting on the developing epidemic, trying to understand the cultural, medical and political impact of the disease on the gay community and United States society as a whole. Extensively researched, weaving together personal stories with political and social reporting, And the Band Played On is a masterpiece of investigative reporting that led to Randy Shilts being described as "the pre-eminent chronicler of gay life" by The New York Times. Shilts exposed why AIDS was allowed to spread - while the medical and political authorities ignored (and even denied) the threat. It was awarded the Stonewall Book Award, became an international bestseller translated into 7 languages, and was made into a major movie in 1993 starring Richard Gere and Sir Ian McKellen. And the Band Played On is one of the great works of contemporary journalism, and provides the foundation for the continuing debate about the greatest medical epidemic faced in our time.

Author : Rose Marshack
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252054013

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Play Like a Man by Rose Marshack Pdf

As a member of Poster Children, Rose Marshack took part in entwined revolutions. Marshack and other women seized a much-elevated profile in music during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital technologies transformed the recording and marketing of music. Touring in a van, meeting your idols, juggling a programming job with music, keeping control and credibility, the perils of an independent record label (and the greater perils of a major)—Marshack chronicles the band’s day-to-day life and punctuates her account with excerpts from her tour reports and hard-learned lessons on how to rock, program, and teach while female. She also details the ways Poster Children applied punk’s DIY ethos to digital tech as a way to connect with fans via then-new media like pkids listservs, internet radio, and enhanced CDs. An inside look at a scene and a career, Play Like a Man is the evocative and humorous tale of one woman’s life in the trenches and online.

Author : Karen Littleton,Neil Mercer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136675300

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Interthinking: Putting Talk to Work by Karen Littleton,Neil Mercer Pdf

Written in an accessible and jargon-free style, Interthinking: putting talk to work explores the growing body of work on how people think creatively and productively together. Challenging purely individualistic accounts of human evolution and cognition, its internationally acclaimed authors provide analyses of real-life examples of collective thinking in everyday settings including workplaces, schools, rehearsal spaces and online environments. The authors use socio-cultural psychology to explain the processes involved in interthinking, to explore its creative power, but also to understand why collective thinking isn’t always productive or successful. With this knowledge we can maximise the constructive benefits of our ability to interthink, and understand the best ways in which we can help young people to develop, nurture and value that capability.

Author : David Halle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226229362

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America's Working Man by David Halle Pdf

“An unusually deep and wide-ranging study” by a sociologist who spent years listening to and living among workers at a New Jersey chemical plant (Journal of American Studies). Over a period of six years during the late 1970s, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey’s industrial heartland—white, male, and mostly Catholic. He has emerged with an unusually comprehensive and convincingly realistic picture of blue-collar life in America during this era. Throughout the book, Halle illustrates his analysis with excerpts of workers’ views on everything from strikes, class consciousness, politics, job security, and toxic chemicals to marriage, betting on horses, God, home-ownership, drinking, adultery, the Super Bowl, and life after death. Halle challenges the stereotypes of the blue-collar mentality and provides a detailed, in-depth portrait of one community of workers at a time when it was relatively affluent and secure. “Absorbing reading.”—Business Week

Author : Dizzy Gillespie
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780816665471

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To Be, Or Not-- to Bop by Dizzy Gillespie Pdf

Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780227146

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The Birth Of The Modern by Paul Johnson Pdf

A classic study of fifteen crucial years in the formation of the modern world The Birth of the Modern has established itself as a new kind of historical work - an examination of the way the matrix of the modern world was formed. Paul Johnson, one of today's most popular historians, takes fifteen critical years and subjects them to a fascinatingly detailed analysis: their geopolitics and politics, their cultural and intellectual life, their technology and science. He investigates every area of life, in every corner of the world. And he makes of this huge variety of elements a coherent narrative, told through the lives and actual words of the age's people - outstanding and ordinary - so that the reader feels he was there.

Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195326888

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The Promise of the New South by Edward L. Ayers Pdf

A new history of the American South during Reconstruction shows how a complex blending of new ideas and old hatreds developed in the region following the Civil War. By the author of Vengeance and Justice.

Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : New York, Oak
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : African American jazz musicians
ISBN : UCSD:31822013470810

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Jazz by Samuel Charters Pdf

Author : John Lithgow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442467446

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Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo by John Lithgow Pdf

A lively and lyrical picture book jaunt from actor and author John Lithgow! Oh, children! Remember! Whatever you may do, Never play music right next to the zoo. They’ll burst from their cages, each beast and each bird, Desperate to play all the music they’ve heard. A concert gets out of hand when the animals at the neighboring zoo storm the stage and play the instruments themselves in this hilarious picture book based on one of John Lithgow’s best-loved tunes.

Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Jazz
ISBN : IND:30000120738129

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Jazz, New Orleans, 1885-1957 by Samuel Charters Pdf

Author : Jonathan London
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101653418

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Froggy Plays in the Band by Jonathan London Pdf

Here comes Froggy's marching band, led by the one and only Frogilina. Froggy and his pals are sure they can win the big prize in the Apple Blossom Parade, even though they haven't been playing together very long. They just need to remember the rules: Don't look left. Don't look right. And DON'T STOP FOR ANYTHING! But when Froggy's around ,things never go quite as planned...