- Joined
- Apr 20, 2011
- Location
- The shores of southern CT
Greetings to all who have purchased a copy of TeenBeat Mayhem! I wanted to express my gratitude and let everyone know what I've been working on diligently, ever since that book officially hit the streets back in October, 2012 - the official announced publication date.
First, TeenBeat Mayhem! is available, while they last...the supply is certainly dwindling away. Don't listen to anyone who hypes the book as out-of-print while attempting to extort / gouge your wallet via a price well above & beyond the original retail sticker price! The retail price has been lowered - You can buy from my webpage: www.pricelessinfopress.com
or head on over to the Ugly Things webstore. I also sell them on ebay from time to time as well.
The big complaint I've received, by far, is the extremely high price of shipping the book from here in the USA. As the book is hardcover, and 400 pages, it is far too heavy to qualify for a low rate of first class airmail shipping. If you reside overseas (Europe, Far East, Australia) and do not want to pay the base $33.40 for shipping one book, head over to:
http://www.clear-spot.nl/catalog/search.php?q=teenbeat mayhem&s=w&submit=search
Clearspot, based in Holland, distributes copies of TeenBeat Mayhem! and shipping costs should be a lot less.
People have asked about a 2nd edition. There will not be a new edition of TeenBeat Mayhem!. The market simply isn't there to support a new, and even larger sized book.
However, I have always planned a supplement edition. Here is what you can expect:
*Beyond TeenBeat Mayhem! will be a softcover, spiral / wire comb binding book (so you can have the book lay flat / open while you read thru the pages).
*It will contain all new discoveries and additional 45s I was not able to fit in the big book.
* A full list of corrections (targeting typos, new confirmed locales, release dates, etc for 45s listed in TeenBeat mayhem! Diehards, geeks and completists will easily be able to mark their copy of the big book using the corrections chapter.
*The entire Top 15,000 + listing of U.S Garage Songs, in ranked order, will be shown and cross-referenced via an A to Z song titles listing. This includes all new discoveries on 45 and acetates, as well as songs which appear as unrated in TeenBeat Mayhem!
*The vote tally breakdown for every rated A and B side which appears in both TeenBeat Mayhem! and the supplement book. This will allow the reader to see how the song fared via the voting cabinet member sessions which continue to take place for the ratings.
* A separate A to Z listing of Non-U.S. groups & performers with releases on American manufactured / distributed record labels. This will hopefully please those readers who wished for some sort of an International discography. It won't be anything near all-encompassing, but instead, a selected discography profiling the obscure / non-hit 45s by non U.S groups (Canada, Europe, Australia Far East...).
The book will be geared to the fanatics / collector's sect, and as such , will be very limited, unlike TeenBeat Mayhem! press run. Softcover will allow a much cheaper cost for shipping. Page count has yet to be determined, but it will not run over 200 pages at most.. No color, very few pix or label scans. A bare-bones, all info supplement, similar to publications created during the pre-internet era, guaranteed to be the final word on TeenBeat Mayhem!
Date for publication: November 2014.
I thank each and every one of you who wrote to me or posted on the G45 forum with a suggestion, correction, addition, or complaint regarding Teenbeat Mayhem!.
Feel free to ask any questions regarding Beyond TeenBeat Mayhem.
First, TeenBeat Mayhem! is available, while they last...the supply is certainly dwindling away. Don't listen to anyone who hypes the book as out-of-print while attempting to extort / gouge your wallet via a price well above & beyond the original retail sticker price! The retail price has been lowered - You can buy from my webpage: www.pricelessinfopress.com
or head on over to the Ugly Things webstore. I also sell them on ebay from time to time as well.
The big complaint I've received, by far, is the extremely high price of shipping the book from here in the USA. As the book is hardcover, and 400 pages, it is far too heavy to qualify for a low rate of first class airmail shipping. If you reside overseas (Europe, Far East, Australia) and do not want to pay the base $33.40 for shipping one book, head over to:
http://www.clear-spot.nl/catalog/search.php?q=teenbeat mayhem&s=w&submit=search
Clearspot, based in Holland, distributes copies of TeenBeat Mayhem! and shipping costs should be a lot less.
People have asked about a 2nd edition. There will not be a new edition of TeenBeat Mayhem!. The market simply isn't there to support a new, and even larger sized book.
However, I have always planned a supplement edition. Here is what you can expect:
*Beyond TeenBeat Mayhem! will be a softcover, spiral / wire comb binding book (so you can have the book lay flat / open while you read thru the pages).
*It will contain all new discoveries and additional 45s I was not able to fit in the big book.
* A full list of corrections (targeting typos, new confirmed locales, release dates, etc for 45s listed in TeenBeat mayhem! Diehards, geeks and completists will easily be able to mark their copy of the big book using the corrections chapter.
*The entire Top 15,000 + listing of U.S Garage Songs, in ranked order, will be shown and cross-referenced via an A to Z song titles listing. This includes all new discoveries on 45 and acetates, as well as songs which appear as unrated in TeenBeat Mayhem!
*The vote tally breakdown for every rated A and B side which appears in both TeenBeat Mayhem! and the supplement book. This will allow the reader to see how the song fared via the voting cabinet member sessions which continue to take place for the ratings.
* A separate A to Z listing of Non-U.S. groups & performers with releases on American manufactured / distributed record labels. This will hopefully please those readers who wished for some sort of an International discography. It won't be anything near all-encompassing, but instead, a selected discography profiling the obscure / non-hit 45s by non U.S groups (Canada, Europe, Australia Far East...).
The book will be geared to the fanatics / collector's sect, and as such , will be very limited, unlike TeenBeat Mayhem! press run. Softcover will allow a much cheaper cost for shipping. Page count has yet to be determined, but it will not run over 200 pages at most.. No color, very few pix or label scans. A bare-bones, all info supplement, similar to publications created during the pre-internet era, guaranteed to be the final word on TeenBeat Mayhem!
Date for publication: November 2014.
I thank each and every one of you who wrote to me or posted on the G45 forum with a suggestion, correction, addition, or complaint regarding Teenbeat Mayhem!.
Feel free to ask any questions regarding Beyond TeenBeat Mayhem.
