Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in 60s Hollywood (the book)

[massb]

http://jawbonepress.com/riot/
Written by Domenic Priore.
If anyone has it could tell me if it's worth the purchase?
To tell truth I'm interested especially in the interview with the elusive Tim Granada of the Dovers.

Speaking of the Dovers what happened to the version on the Big Beat label (the Misty Lane mini-LP seems sold out)?

 

[greenfuzz]

I have the book and it's highly recommended. The Granada interview, however, is only a few paragraphs with a couple of quotes. Domenic does provide great info on the clubs and many of the bands that performed, however. If you have any interest at all in the Sunset Strip, you'll dig it.

 

[Hallucalation]

Dovers Big Beat release is still in works.. Alec collecting tapes.

 

[Ned]

I would also recommend this book. Some good photos as well

Ned

 

[Dave Baldwin]

Lots and lots of interesting info and photos. A little bit more 'heavy-handed' in the cultural/political
analysis department, but it's just one man's opinion and not really a rigorous historical exercise. I have
not seen the 'updated' edition yet so I'm looking at the first printing here.

 

[massb]

Dovers Big Beat release is still in works.. Alec collecting tapes.

It seems Tim Granada was interviewed by Alec too (twenty years ago )

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10161926478800319&set=a.341026350318&type=3&theater

 

[Hallucalation]

I'm reading 2015 version of the book and 1/3 of this is totally unreadable. There is absolutely no flow or any kind of narrative between chapters and or even between sections of the same chapter. At times it's just endless listings of useless names, places, facts, people and so on. It badly needed editor. There's a also barely of interesting stories and interviews with subjects of Sunset Strip scene, it's just incoherent ramblings on subject.

Priore's "Smile - Story Of Lost Masterpiece" was simularly awful but at least it focused on one subject. Here it's just veering from subject to subject. Amazing subject to write a book about but terribly exucuted.

Here's a example of what i'm talking about... I'm getting a headache reading this.

 

[Jim]

Speaking of books, a friend gave me a copy of Canyon Dreams , kinda entertaining but nothing to do with garage. A couple of funny remarks though.....

 

[Michael W]

A couple of years ago I read the memoir of Johnny Marr from The Smiths & in that he drops a mention of having dinner with Bruce Springsteen in the '80s or '90s during which they talked about '60s garage bands.