This tell all book is one of the best history accounts of metal music that I've ever seen. It starts off in the 60s and goes all the way to 2002. I just hope that Konow writes an update so we can get his perspective of the last few years which have been busy in the metal world.
Some of what is in the book you've probably seen on MTV or VH1, but Konow digs deeper. The book cover claims he spent three years interviewing the bands, wives, girlfriends, ex-wives, groupies, managers, record company execs and anyone else who was apart of the metal scene and it shows.
Konow talks about the ways to examine the scene in the book's introduction:
One is to see everything through rose-tinted lenses and overpraise the artists chronicled. The other is to reduce their lives to a tour of Babylon, with plenty of titillation and the horror but little humanity or insight. To go either way entirely would be an inaccurate reflection. In writing this book, I wanted to address three key questions: What went right, what went wrong, and what the hell happened?So if you like Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Metallica, Guns N Roses and an entire cast from LA glam to thrash, you'll probably want to grab a copy and black out the calendar for a few days.
I'm letting a friend and reader of this blog borrow my copy. He grew up in the northern California metal scene and is even on the back cover of "Master of Puppets." I'd say he is the target audience. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here
