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Gene Sculatti has been writing about music and popular culture since 1966, for such publications as Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Creem, Phonograph Record Magazine and the Sacramento Bee. He served as Director of Special Issues for Billboard magazine, Managing Editor of Ice magazine, Editorial Director of Warner Bros. Records, and as a research analyst for CBS Television. He co-hosted KCRW’s The Cool & The Crazy radio program in the 1980s, and, since 2007, as “Vic Tripp,” has hosted the weekly Atomic Cocktail show at www.luxuriamusic.com.
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Would be nice if this book was available in the iTunes Canada
iTunes Canada isn't currently carrying this book, the US store is, but won't sell it to me. Arrrgggghhhhhh!
It's a shame this is only
It's a shame this is only available for Kindle Fire and Kindle For Android.The garden-variety Kindle apparently can't download this, much less
other e-readers. It's a Kindle exclusive, but you would think it could
be purchased on all their platforms.
It's a shame this is only
It's a shame this is only available for Kindle Fire and Kindle For Android.The garden-variety Kindle apparently can't download this, much less
other e-readers. It's a Kindle exclusive, but you would think it could
be purchased on all their platforms.
@ It's a shame
Try this link, for other devices...
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Stars-Anti-Matter-Grateful-ebook/dp/B008A8NX…
Deadheads of the music industry
Gene became well known at the record companies. He worked on projects for A&M, Capitol, Columbia, Elektra and Rhino Records. He packaged a variety of books on popular culture: The Catalog of Cool (Warner Books, 1982), Popcorn (Pocket Books, 1984) and San Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip (St. Martin’s, 1985). He adapted his first book to another radio show, The Cool & the Crazy, a popular feature on NPR’s KCRW-FM from 1984 to 1987, contributed columns to Oui magazine and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and worked on pioneering interactive-CD programming for Time Warner.
From his biography
Thanks for the Link DigiGal
It did the trick. When I went to Amazon to buy it a few days back, owning a regular Kindle, it said it would only load on the Kindle Fire or Android. Your link somehow side-stepped that and it downloaded as usual after purchase. 'Preciates it!
Thanks DigiGal
Your link worked like a charm! Got in on my kindle.
Punk to Dead
I'm (I guess) an aging hipster. First dead show 1985. This was after punk rock life.Hurray for aging hipsters!!
The first Warner Bros. album
I could not agree more with Gene. Now after 40 years of listening a to many kinds of rock, jazz, experimental music, the Dead's first true album is the one I love best. It grew on me I the portable mp3 era for sure, as a lot of studio Dead did. It's a real monument to their long range, big ears style.
not a good book
This book isn't very interesting at all. I wouldn't recommend it even at it's inexpensive price. I'm surprised Dead.net is pushing it like it is.
Dark Star Notes: Just a few thoughts...
How's this for crashing a Dark Star?
Byrd
Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter...
Glass hand dissolvingTo ice petal flowers revolving
Lady in Velvet
Recedes in the nights of...
Goodbye.
Byrd
Yikes!
Intrepid Pid steps perhaps well beyond his bounds as a mere site member and intones: Byrdy, not that your verbal CME isn't cool and all (which it certainly is,) but marye is The Site Moderator and well within her bounds to be the Arbiter of Appropriateness regarding forum topics and replies thereto. This is a thread about a guy's book, and your observations, while intriguing and compelling in their own right, have nothing to do with said book.
I look forward to your continued contributions in more topically applicable threads.
in my duly appointed housekeeping role
I have once again unpublished your post, which is irrelevant to the book to which this topic is devoted, and suggest you post it in a more appropriate thread.
Thank you.
Disrupting other people's houses is not cool. There are designated places for this kind of post, where, as Mr. Pid suggests, they may find an appreciative audience. Slathered all over the wall of a topic devoted to a guy's book, they're just rude, and will be removed.
*Facepalm!*
Oi, Byrd, how do you not get it? It's not that your post doesn't contain anything useful or interesting. I had a chance to peruse it in (I'm guessing) its second iteration and I believe there is information there that many here would be interested in.
However, this thread is about dead.net shilling Gene's tales of being involved in the commercial music business which, rest assured, ain't exactly astrophysics. I can see how you might find the topic title compelling and seemingly relevant, but when you look behind the green curtain you find it's just marketing hyperbole. If you really were attempting to dialog directly with Gene, again, you might find that other channels would prove more effective and efficient.
If you want to lecture Congress, the steps of the Capitol Building is perhaps a more on point venue than say, Pennsylvania Station. Please, PLEASE select one of the thoroughly appropriate topics marye suggested earlier and add value there.
You ever see a Congressperson or Senator take a train to work? No? I didn't think so...
To Infinity and Back Again...
I have a sneaking suspicion that Infinity is where someone else, eons ago, might have taken us...Which might explain why everything except us appears to be dead in this wacky Universe.
Time to go Home...or at least somewhere a bit more copacetic!
Peace,
Byrd
For the text see: Forums/Dancin' in the Street/Like a Crazy Quilt Star Gown...