好久没来了。有时候,这本书看起来就像永远见不到天日了,那对我们所有人来说都是一个巨大的损失。所以我要对约翰说声“谢谢”,感谢他坚持不懈的工作,也感谢Proper Records勇敢地承担了出版的责任。
你注意到的第一件事是这是一本大书。我的评价副本是一个半尺寸的复印件,它仍然是巨大的,所以我希望成品上的绑定足够强大,以持有800多页!
这本书虽然看起来很好......有着令人惊叹的封面,以前从安全的牛奶盖和Guy Webster拍摄的安全封面,每个章节都有一个完整的页面罕见照片。每个页面都有一个吹泡泡的鱼......
这本书分为两部分。除了约翰的故事,他在乐队和外部的,当然,大部分的书,是一个漫长的最后部分给出了跟踪通过追踪评论每个Beefheart专辑…这里有一些伟大的洞察力和细节(到这一点)。
那些阅读了约翰撰写的耕种小册子的人会发现这本书的结构熟悉 - 逐字采访魔法乐队成员和同时代人穿插着约翰的叙述将它联系在一起。这效果很好,并允许我们从约翰分开的其他声音,并清楚地看待事件,或者以不同的方式被人们所记住的。有时,真正发生的事情的“真相”不能轻易挡住。
约翰写得很好,我们都知道,在阅读了他的散文之后,我松了一口气。它是用一种非常容易读懂的风格写的。他不怕让自己的个性和信仰通过简短的旁白、笑话和故事展现出来。
为了这篇评论,我在第一个页面开始,并向尽头工作。这是一个非常简单的速度,这尺寸是截止日期。这里有很多细节,我更愿意以更悠闲的节奏来实现......下次阅读时,我会这样做。事实上,如果你在随机点浸入书中,我觉得它甚至可能工作。章节往往很短暂和重点是有帮助的,虽然您在早期章节中需要您的智慧,因为时间范围并不总是线性,并且有很多面试部分。
“字符的演员”列表可能已经帮助,特别是在早期的章节中。对于一些不了解早期魔法乐队成员和周边的其他人来说,一些粉丝可能证明难以困难。
谢天谢地,约翰似乎有一个非常好的记忆,尽管我相信他肯定的是忘记了一些事情。这本书的核心是约翰的爱/讨厌与唐万万·弗莱特的关系,他试图通过发生在他身上发生的事情以及他如何让自己反复拖入牛肉涡流。没有持有的禁止......其中一些是为了不舒服的阅读。
这本书中的细节令人难以置信。不可避免地会有一些空白,或者确切的年代不清楚……但你还记得40年前你在做什么吗?
细节的深度既迷人又令人沮丧。有趣是因为你能真切地感受到在唐手下工作的感觉,而令人沮丧的是,因为并不是所有的魔术乐队的历史都在这里被详细描述。所以,你必须提醒自己这是约翰的生活故事以及他与唐和魔术乐队的关系,这不是唐·弗利特的传记,也不是魔术乐队的历史。因此,不可避免地会出现差距。
当约翰不是乐队的一部分,最明显的差距在1971年到1974年。This could lead to a bit of confusion for some when Alex Snouffer makes an appearance talking about the break- up of the band in 1974. If you’re not aware that he had rejoined to tour in 1972/73 and to play on Unconditionally Guaranteed there is nothing in the narrative to give you this background. Perhaps some notes to fill in these gaps would have helped … especially for non-fans.
好吧,我知道我上面说的有些可能看起来有点消极,也许只是我太挑剔了吧?嗯,是的,我是很挑剔……
我正在努力想到正确的高级资料......令人惊叹的...令人难以置信的......太棒了......这可能会尽可能接近,因为我们将获得关于这种令人难以置信的音乐的最好的书。
这是所有船长和魔法乐队粉丝的宝库。雷竞技ios下载在这里有很多燃料辩论多年来未来。我无意在本次审查中揭示任何一个。不可避免地拆除了许多旧的牛肉神话,但这里有一些启示,会让你感到惊讶,让你再次追究唐万万的人格和奇怪的力量。
再次,我要对约翰说“谢谢”,感谢他为我们所付出的痛苦和努力。
不要只是把我的话语带来......去买它......这是必不可少的
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跟踪记录
最后将近100页的书给约翰的评论,在所有合法的Beefheart专辑上的每首歌…所有,那是,除了无条件保证和蓝色牛仔裤和月光!(好吧,这是一个讨论点。)
这本书独自为这一部分买入......
约翰为我们提供了一些关于每个轨道的录制的一些有趣的细节,歌词的历史,他扮演和如何设计音乐零件。在这里有一些梦幻般的粉丝和Musos。显然穿着他的音乐安排帽,John对他自己的竞争中尤其是最重要的。
You get to find out which are his favourite Beefheart songs, which one disgusts him, which he thinks are a ‘piece of crap’, the one he thinks is like ‘trying to bring a woman to orgasm when she’s watching TV’, the meaning of ‘parapliers’, the one that had him beating his bed with his fists and which song should really be titled小门。
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个人兴趣
我必须承认这本书的个人兴趣。多年来,我一直在与约翰联系,我们已经讨论了这本书。
很多时候,约翰会对他的写作感到非常沮丧,他想知道,当他可以更好地找一份合适的工作来养家时,他所花费的所有精力和时间是否真的值得。我写了好几封信鼓励他继续写下去,说没有人比他更适合讲述这个非凡的故事了。这对约翰来说是一个重大打击,因为魔法乐队的重聚没有给他希望得到的经济奖励(也是应得的!),这样他就可以自己出版这本书。
John我有幸被询问,帮助编辑他的一些原稿。他觉得它太长但似乎不确定需要做什么。我确实证明了文本并在前六个或七章中纠正了一些错误,并且能够通过去除一些重复和外来细节来建议可以减少的区域。但我发现很难像我认为约翰想要的那样戏剧性地削减它。我知道他要求其他人帮助编辑它。
它看起来像我的一些建议可能已经在船上被带走。仍然存在一些重复,也有几个可能被编辑出来的小事错误。
现在我手上有了整本书,我真的很高兴约翰知道他为这本书付出的努力以及它对他的意义。我希望它已经驱除了他的恶魔,他现在可以继续追求他自己的事业,作为一个有才华的音乐家。
史蒂夫·古
2009年12月
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雷达站要感谢所有帮助的正确记录,并允许我们使用这些罕见的照片。


伯爵先生是赞美约翰法国人的赞美这本书。它对这是一个巨大的洞察力讲述,因为唐van vliet原因是这样一个马上的天才。警告:这本书屈服于一个编辑,没有得到它;有很多重复的重复,比涉及那些时代的叙述留下的差距更难原谅,当时法国人不在魔法乐队中。这是一个在记忆中的运动,我认为没有理由怀疑法国先生所说的。他的幽默是这里拯救的恩典因为没有它,你可能无法完成结束。最后的轨道笔记是本书的真正的“金尘”。买它。
John believes Don was telekinetic (I guess if one believes in Christian doctrine, this doesn’t exactly require a Herculean amount of effort to even entertain the notion) and that LSD can be smoked in a joint (despite his “research” of the drug which I suppose he should be commended for even bothering attempting, especially considering my opening observation). I also get that the guy endured a lot of Don’s bullshit which I 100% respect John and other band members for, along with what is, don’t get me wrong, some incredible performing and arranging duties/talent without which maybe some R&B connoisseurs would consider Beefheart that guy who put out some good-to-great singles on A&M before dropping off the planet and not much else.
It’s just that the flip-flopping between his notion that he should have quit once he quickly realized Don’s penchant for being a total (and possibly mentally unstable) ass long before the Trout Mask nightmare and the notion that he should have quit because Don chose to dive right into the experimental material which wasn’t financially worth it to him to commit to and then yet ANOTHER notion that the music was too obviously important as an amazingly innovative piece of art to the point of being historical that walking away would have been detrimental to music/poetry and, indeed, art in general to not have it seen through… It comes across as someone who has a (once more, COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED) case of sour grapes but doesn’t really know how or where to attach that concretely to a specific feeling or event.
某些歌曲的方式和乐队的故事不只是琐碎的信息创意和技术背景,也可以称之为opionated解剖,有时显得过于消极的他的批判也给了什么是看似老实说烦躁的氛围。约翰完全有权利去感知和观察他认为合适的事物,显然,但他说,盛传有时会重申他的遗憾,同时质疑他的坚持,他尊重唐和乐队的才华,在更大程度上,他难以置信的淡定坚持,艰难的时期是值得的,把音乐带给公众。他似乎多次感到失望,但又不能完全承认自己的感受。
积极的是很多。我的狡猾地解雇了他的宗教和他不像所学校的倾向,因为他可能是似乎有点“超越他的把握”,所以说话不要从他自己身上带走故事的宝藏树丛(对自己的令人难以置信的贫困作者来说,就是自己的采访了各种魔法乐队成员和其他人。Though I think he has a somewhat shit attitude, that’s a matter of opinion and we’re lucky he and the others are willing to revisit these sometimes totally Hellish stories in the first place so it’s hard to not want to give these guys credit that they most definitely deserve for the work they put in.
I’d give it a solid 3/5… Would be higher if John’s new-age nonsense and his lukewarm to extremely proud to life-threatening-afraid to whiny observations were a bit less of…well, what they are, I guess haha – but that’s a preference and not
John believes Don was telekinetic (I guess if one believes in Christian doctrine, this doesn’t exactly require a Herculean amount of effort to even entertain the notion) and that LSD can be smoked in a joint (despite his “research” of the drug which I suppose he should be commended for even bothering attempting, especially considering my opening observation). I also get that the guy endured a lot of Don’s bullshit which I 100% respect John and other band members for, along with what is, don’t get me wrong, some incredible performing and arranging duties/talent without which maybe some R&B connoisseurs would consider Beefheart that guy who put out some good-to-great singles on A&M before dropping off the planet and not much else.
It’s just that the flip-flopping between his notion that he should have quit once he quickly realized Don’s penchant for being a total (and possibly mentally unstable) ass long before the Trout Mask nightmare and the notion that he should have quit because Don chose to dive right into the experimental material which wasn’t financially worth it to him to commit to and then yet ANOTHER notion that the music was too obviously important as an amazingly innovative piece of art to the point of being historical that walking away would have been detrimental to music/poetry and, indeed, art in general to not have it seen through… It comes across as someone who has a (once more, COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED) case of sour grapes but doesn’t really know how or where to attach that concretely to a specific feeling or event.
某些歌曲的方式和乐队的故事不只是琐碎的信息创意和技术背景,也可以称之为opionated解剖,有时显得过于消极的他的批判也给了什么是看似老实说烦躁的氛围。约翰完全有权利去感知和观察他认为合适的事物,显然,但他说,盛传有时会重申他的遗憾,同时质疑他的坚持,他尊重唐和乐队的才华,在更大程度上,他难以置信的淡定坚持,艰难的时期是值得的,把音乐带给公众。他似乎多次感到失望,但又不能完全承认自己的感受。
积极的是很多。我的狡猾地解雇了他的宗教和他不像所学校的倾向,因为他可能是似乎有点“超越他的把握”,所以说话不要从他自己身上带走故事的宝藏树丛(对自己的令人难以置信的贫困作者来说,就是自己的采访了各种魔法乐队成员和其他人。Though I think he has a somewhat shit attitude, that’s a matter of opinion and we’re lucky he and the others are willing to revisit these sometimes totally Hellish stories in the first place so it’s hard to not want to give these guys credit that they most definitely deserve for the work they put in.
如果约翰的新时代胡言乱语和他的冷淡到极度骄傲到威胁生命-害怕抱怨的观察少一点…嗯,他们是什么,我想哈哈-但这是一个偏好,而不是一个客观的批评。