A hilarious inside look at the real business of popular music by the drummer of Semisonic that does for rock and roll what Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" did for baseball. [Broadway]
Critic Reviews
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Outstanding
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Kirkus Reviews
Few first-person memoirs of the rock biz are as smart, honest, and entertaining as this tart, incisive work.
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Favorable
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Library Journal Robert Morast
Ultimately, the drummer's recollections of life in the music biz are far more interesting than his band ever was. [15 June 2004, p.74]
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Favorable
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PopMatters Zachary Houle
Rock & Roll actually comes out of the wringer being a pretty balanced and refreshingly bang-on first person perspective of the music biz: Sometimes you're walking down the red carpet, sometimes you are the carpet. For that reason alone, the book winds up being fairly entertaining on a voyeuristic level.
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Favorable
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Publishers Weekly
Thanks to Slichter's good-natured presentation, these stories and Slichter's work as a whole, despite their rock star origins, are surprisingly easy to relate to.
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Favorable
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USA Today Edward Nawotka
With its emphasis on reality and hard-won insights into the record biz, this un-ironic tale should be required reading for anyone aspiring to pop stardom.
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Favorable
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Washington Post John Strausbaugh
The best insider's account of indentured servitude to the music industry since Danny Goldberg's essay "The Ballad of the Mid-Level Artist" and Courtney Love's "Dear Fellow Recording Artists" letter.
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Mixed
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The New York Times Book Review James McMurtry
If the members of Semisonic indulged in any stereotypical rock-star debauchery, Slichter ignores it, focusing instead on the sometimes exciting but often banal and soul-sullying work of becoming a rock star.
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