As far as car bombs, street fighting, and creatively cheating the government go, Abbie Hoffman’s authoritative guides to pig-hunting are far more educational.
Gray goes beyond the glitteringly-illustrated fan-loving texts and the jumble of apocryphal internet mutterings to create a complete academic survey of R.E.M.
It looks much like any other hastily-assembled chapbook, full of haphazardly-layed-out text, dark Xeroxed photos, and such, but there’s love in these pages.
The story as Bockris tells it fits snugly in the space reserved for biographies of other driven, creative men – brilliant in art, an ungodly pain to be around.
Essential reading for anyone bemoaning the death of free expression in America, and an inspiration to the disgruntled and dispossessed in this fragmented culture.
Not quite the Aesthetics of Rock for the ’90s as some have claimed (Joe Carducci’s Rock and the Pop Narcotic is) – it falls a little closer to Meltz’s Gulcher.
About the best editorial forum that delves into Comics; not the “new releases,” but the history of the medium with interviews from the best and most worthy.