{"product_id":"writing-for-slash-1977-1981-the-know-it-all-years-reviews-paperback","title":"WRITING FOR SLASH 1977 - 1981 The Know It All Years - Reviews - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndy Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eByron Coley\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by), \u003cb\u003eChris D\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the earliest published works of \u003cb\u003eChris D\u003c\/b\u003e., an author of novels, short stories and film writing, who is best known as singer\/songwriter for the bands, \u003ci\u003eThe Flesh Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDivine Horsemen\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eWRITING FOR SLASH\u003c\/b\u003e features vintage, passionate, naive, funny, often savage and self-righteous musings - sometimes under Chris' pseudonyms: Bob Clone, Half-Cocked, Mr. OK - on the qualities rock music should embody in the late-1970s punk era. All these reviews of records (albums \u0026amp; 7\" singles), live shows and even some films appeared in the legendary punk newspaper\/fanzine, \u003ci\u003eSlash\u003c\/i\u003e between 1977 - 1981. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eThe best \"punk\" writing emulated the music - immediate, smart, semi-tuff, and funny...writing which sprang manifest of the sound and fury, where you take a swig of beer and light a cig after writing and\/or reading it. Chris D is the perennial whip-it-out on the click-clack typewriter...and then slap it onto Kickboy Face's desk. Done! Who's next!? Chris D's \u003ci\u003eSlash\u003c\/i\u003e slashings are a master class of literature as amplifier, cranked to ten.\" - \u003cb\u003eThurston Moore\u003c\/b\u003e, co-founder of Sonic Youth, Ecstatic Peace Library \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Righteous dispatches from the ugly front line of L.A. punk rock in its first detonations, spewed forth by a smart, discerning artist\/critic\/observer with clear eyes, an honest heart, excellent taste, an appropriately bad attitude, and a very sensitive bullshit detector. In the day, Chris was one of the reasons \u003ci\u003eSlash\u003c\/i\u003e was mandatory reading every month, and here's the proof.\" - \u003cb\u003eChris Morris\u003c\/b\u003e, music critic, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(1978-96), author of \u003ci\u003e\"Los Lobos: A Dream in Blue\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"...You would read \u003ci\u003eSlash's \u003c\/i\u003ereviews with pen and paper in hand to make notes about about what you absolutely needed to get. Chris made some of these records sound so essential, you would moan piteously if you discovered they were sold out...But where the writing here is at its most fevered pitch is in his live reviews...back on the East Coast, it was almost hard to believe the tales of brutal police aggro and out-of-control bands, but corroborating reports made us realize it was all true...The knee-jerk reaction we'd had towards West Coast punk dissolved when we could finally hear the records, but Chris's writing played a huge role in hipping outsiders to the actualities of the scene\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\" - \u003cb\u003eByron Coley\u003c\/b\u003e, co-founder\/co-editor of \u003ci\u003eForced Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e, co-founder\/editor of \u003ci\u003eBull Tongue Review\u003c\/i\u003e, writer for \u003ci\u003eArthur, Spin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When the music is your special friend, \u003ci\u003edance on fire as it intends\u003c\/i\u003e\"- Jim Morrison said that. Said it and surely he meant it as a \u003ci\u003erule \u003c\/i\u003e- a commandment - \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e optional! - and veteran fire-dancer Chris Desjardins is not one to shirk his duty as a sacredly acclaimed rockclit, 'scuse me, rockcrit practitioner...Acknowledge music \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e fire - from the getgo - or you are a soulless armchair simp - a wuss - a frigging schmo. Having eyeballed every page\/paragraph\/word of this blazing volume myself, lemme ASSURE you Chris is no schmo, not a once...he never stumbles, he never falls, but hoofs, breathes \u0026amp; suckles FI-YER from flaming first to butt-searing last! Cookin' out!!!\" - \u003cb\u003eRichard Meltzer\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Appomattox of Rock \u003c\/i\u003e(plus \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Rock, \u003c\/i\u003eand more...) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Rock and roll for Chris D. did not start with Ramones or \"Anarchy In The U.K.\"...he deploys his considerable pop-historical knowledge in an almost offhand way: There's no sighing about better r 'n' r days gone by, no cudgeling the reader with his superior expertise. Chris knew...He's done \u003ci\u003eso much \u003c\/i\u003esince these writings first appeared: composed songs...led bands, produced records...published books. \u003ci\u003eWriting For Slash\u003c\/i\u003e can stand with anything in this sprawling, decades-long corpus of expressive effort.\" - \u003cb\u003eAndy Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e, editor and publisher of \u003ci\u003eNew York Rocker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 380\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739548913727,"sku":"9798840092040","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a9d059cb5e46f70564ac3c72d291c6bb.webp?v=1765157036","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/writing-for-slash-1977-1981-the-know-it-all-years-reviews-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}