Gentlemanly Repose: Confessions Of A Debauched Rock 'n' Roller
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Book Overview
This is the hilarious and candid chronicle of when the unheard-of Unband got to drink, fight and play loud music with 80s metal bands like Def Leppard and Dio years after their heyday. Equal parts This is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, this has it all. Unband bassist Michael Ruffino takes us along an epic, hedonistic tour of a surrealistic American landscape that includes mute Christian groupies and unironic headbangers. This is perfect backstage pass proving that sex, drugs, and getting drunk with rock stars may not be everything, but it's better than going acoustic.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0806526262
ISBN13:9780806526263
Release Date:November 2004
Publisher:Citadel Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.58 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.7" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
a truly great book!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
i don't know what else to say. unbelievably funny and well written. i hope the author writes many more books as he has a unique and special talent. metal!
Greatest Book in Human History
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
In fact, it's the greatest work of art in human history. If you haven't read it yet, I hate and envy you.
The Unband - bringing the rawk
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Great book! I also checked out the Unband's classic album "Retarder". A must-listen!
funny, scary, odd, and funny
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
If you like rock and roll. If you can read. Buy this book! You need it. Michael Ruffino is a stone solid genius. And his sense of the ironic in EVERYTHING is just plain brilliant.
Absolutely Brilliant
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
The rock and roll memoir will never be the same. Michael Ruffino writes like JP Dunleavy on methedrine--or an even more badly behaved Hunter Thompson. In fact neither comparison does him justice. Not just another chronicle of back-stage (and on stage ) debauchery, Gentlemanly Repose contains some of the most well-crafted, incendiary and original prose I've read in a long, long time. Right up there with the very best of Lester Bangs. In fact, better and strangely wiser. A great book.
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