BOOK STORE Brian May’s Red Special: The Story of the Home-made Guitar That Rocked Queen and the World By Brian May, Simon Bradley (hardcover) $30.00 For 50 years, Brian May played the Red Special on every Queen album and live show. May and his father started to hand-build that guitar in 1963––a year-long project. May dreamed of a guitar that would outperform any commercially made electric guitar; his father had the knowledge and skills to help that dream come true. They were resourceful: the neck constructed from wood from an 18th-century fireplace mantel and each position inlay hand shaped from a mother-of-pearl button. Unseen sketches, diagrams and notes accompany the text. Understanding and Crafting The Mix, 3rd Edition By William Moylan (paperback) $44.95 This book fills in so many gaps, mysteries, misconceptions and misunderstanding about what actually happens to us when we are recording, mixing and listening to music. There are clear and systematic methods for identifying, evaluating and shaping artistic elements in music and audio recording. Exercises using downloaded music files will help develop critical listening and evaluating skills for greater control over the quality of your recordings. Recommended by MC’s Barry Rudolph. Girl in a Band: A Memoir By Kim Gordon (hardcover) $20.51 Often described as aloof, mysterious and the embodiment of “cool,” Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and femme/grunge fashion icon, tells her life story in this candid, sometimes intense, memoir. Gordon relates memories, observations and philosophy about her life as an artist, her ill-fated marriage to SY’s Thurston Moore, the impact of divorce and collaborations with artists such as Gerhard Richter, Spike Jonze, Chloe Sevigny and Kurt Cobain. I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller By Miriam Linna and Randell Fuller (paperback) $19.95 On July 18, 1966, at the age of 23 and with a Top 10 hit, “I Fought The Law,” on the charts, Bobby Fuller was found dead in a car doused in gasoline outside his Hollywood apartment. In this new book––the first-ever authorized bio of the Texas musician––Norton Records/ Kicks Books co-founder Miriam Linna teams up with Bobby’s brother and bandmate in the Bobby Fuller Four, Randell, to “reveal the true story of the short life and strange death of Bobby Fuller.” The book delves deeply into Bobby’s childhood, his band’s rise to local fame in Southwestern Texas, his national breakthrough and shocking death. Stomp On This!: The Guitar Pedal Effects Guidebook By Brian Tarquin (paperback) $22.19 Here is an inside, in-depth look at guitar pedal effects from brands like Keeley, Snarling Dog and Maestro to bigger names such as Boss, Ibanez and MXR. The book begins with a brief history of pedals, from the ‘60s to the present, and considers such landmark designs as the wah and overdrive, and goes on to cover a vast range of modern pedals. Tarquin also interviews designers such as Mike Mathews of Electro Harmonix, Jim Dunlop, Seymour Duncan and Robert Keeley. Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man By Robert Christgau (hardcover) $27.99 The “Dean of American Rock Critics” takes us on an ultra-personal tour through his life that is both a love letter to a New York long past and a tribute to the transformative power of art. Christgau has chronicled many key cultural shifts of the last half century and revolutionized the status of the music critic in the process. Going Into the City is a look back at the upbringing that grounded him, the history that transformed him and the music, books and films that showed him the way. 14 April 2015 musicconnection.com
WINNERS OF 7 AWARDS AT THE 2014 LA MUSIC AWARDS PRESENTATIONS The Future of Rock N Roll… Vittorio and Vincenzo of V 2 Download their Award Winning Album at www.VSquared.rocks April 2015 musicconnection.com 15
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