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Green Day:
The Ultimate Unauthorized History
By Alan di Perna (hardcover) $35.00
Lauded for bringing punk rock to the masses,
Green Day’s remarkable rise from teenage
garage band to multiplatinum artists is
documented here for the first time to coincide
with the band’s 25th anniversary. Di Perna’s
revealing text is accompanied by more than
300 visuals, including concert and candid
off-stage photography, gig posters and
handbills, 7-inch picture sleeves, rare vinyl,
backstage passes, and more, all presented
in a stunningly designed package.
Kalamazoo Gals
By John Thomas (paperback) $21.95
The author discovers that, during World
War II, Gibson employed a nearly all-female
workforce to build
thousands of guitars,
each marked
with a golden
“banner.” Tracking
down a dozen of
the women, he time
travels with them
through the Great
Depression and into
WWII. He also wanders
the abandoned
Gibson factory in
Kalamazoo, steps
into an imaging
clinic to seek radiographic
evidence
of the sublime quality of the Gals’ craft, and
tracks the “Banner” Gibsons from the factory
into the hands of their first owners. Along the
way we’re led straight into the hearts of the
Kalamazoo Gals.
The Fender Telecaster:
The Life & Times of the Electric Guitar
that Changed the World
By Dave Hunter (hardcover) $40.00
It’s the 60th Anniversary of the Fender Telecaster
and this new book is the first, detailed
history of one of the true icons of guitars and
the music world.
The book tell
how the Tele
became the ultimate
blue-collar
guitar, with
the complete
history from
development,
through the
CBS years, to
present day
Artist Series
models and
other variations.
The book
is also chock-full of beautiful photography,
period advertisements, great quotes, album
covers, diagrams and more.
The Fender Stratocaster
Handbook 2nd Edition:
How to Buy, Maintain, Set Up,
Troubleshoot and Modify Your Strat
By Paul Balmer (hardcover) $27.00
Fender’s Stratocaster is THE ICON of the
guitar world. It’s not just a manufacturer’s
hype that this is the most popular guitar of all
time. Introduced
in 1954 and thus
now more than
50 years old
and counting,
Fender’s electric
Stratocaster not
only revolutionized
guitars but
also popular
music. Strats can
be modified and
customized in a
myriad of ways.
This book will
explain how to
do it all yourself.
And like a car manual, even if you don’t do the
work, it’ll be ideal for dreamers or people who
want to talk the talk.
Musician’s Notebook:
For Lecture and Notation
By Brian W. O’Keefe (softcover) $15.00
As a former student, the author found it challenging
to keep musical notations, comments
and lecture notes
orderly and accessible.
So he created
a notebook that
stores everything in
one binder. Divided
into four sections
and three formats,
it provides areas for
notes and analysis
as well as assignments
and compositions.
Complete with
staff/manuscript paper,
it enables note
taking on the same page and has perforated
edges for assignments. It is available at http://
lakeyboardproject.com.
14 April 2013 www.musicconnection.com