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Amped : Notes from a Go-Nowhere Punk Band
Amped Notes from a GoNowhere Punk Band Author:Jon Resh Its the most familiar story in the punk rock experience: a few guys decide to start a band despite not knowing exactly how to play their instruments for the sheer adventure of making rocknroll. AMPED chronicles one such group, a three-piece called Spoke (of whom author Jon Resh was the guitarist and singer... more ») in the early 90s, who, despite their modest talent, were hellbent on unleashing the simple melodies playing in their heads at maximum volume to the world, regardless of whether anyone was listening. AMPED recounts bizarre, poignant and often comic situations inherent in the pursuit of making noise during some of the most vibrant and creative years in underground rock, immediately before its recent Top 40 marketability and commercial mainstream acceptance. The book also details the more introspective quest to keep ones ethical integrity, sense of humor and personal sanity while trying to sing in key, change a guitar string onstage and sleep in a van full of smelly bandmates night after night.« less