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Download * The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (33 1/3) PDF by # Michael T. Fournier eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (33 1/3) Including extensive interviews with Mike Watt and many others close to and inspired by the band, this is a great tribute to a classic piece of American underground music.Included are extensive interviews with Mike Watt, the band's bass player, as well as interviews with several artists, musicians, studio owners, and fanzine writers who have been devoted followers of the band for years.. The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this b
| Title | : | The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (33 1/3) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826427871 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 106 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
Including extensive interviews with Mike Watt and many others close to and inspired by the band, this is a great tribute to a classic piece of American underground music.Included are extensive interviews with Mike Watt, the band's bass player, as well as interviews with several artists, musicians, studio owners, and fanzine writers who have been devoted followers of the band for years.. The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely on their music - the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs that comprise this, their greatest achievement
From there, Fournier goes into each song on the album, providing back stories and anecdotes, including interviews with bassist Mike Watt himself. "How do you showcase the Minutemen's Double Nickels On The Dime, a sprawling opus of a punk record, spanning more than 40 songs over four LP sides? It's a formidable task that could easily get out of hand, but Michael T. The book does a great job of pulling back the layers of quirkiness that the band painted themselves in, shining light on some of the mysteries of one of the 80s greatest indie punk records." --Mish Mash Music Reviews. He also explains the structure of the album and how each separate side came into being, with each band member getting a side, and leftovers ending up on the last side, nicknamed Chaff. The band was notorious for using inside jokes and obscure references, which played itself out in the theme of the record. Fournier breaks do
"Bad OCR, never proofread." according to Amazon Customer. This is a ripoff. Terrible OCR makes several passages difficult to comprehend (for one example, took me a while to figure out that "Gende" meant "Gentle"). The publisher obviously didn't proofread the Kindle version. To charge $10 for such shoddy work is abusive.. "An excellent and expansive introduction" according to herschel. When "Double Nickels" came out, I was a teenager in a small town, playing in my own punk rock band. And just as D Boon sang about how "punk rock changed our lives", mine was never the same afterwards -- Minutemen and "Double Nickels" taught me that punk rock was . J. Fraser said Fellow Concordian. It's nice to know that at least one other Concord resident finds this record worthy of such great praise. Although I was bit skeptical of such a youngster dissecting one of my all-time faves, Mr. Fournier's well-researched and interesting take on Double Nickles m
Fournier is also the author of "Hidden Wheel," a punk rock novel published by Three Rooms Press. Michael T. He has taught punk rock history at Tufts University and Emerson College.
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