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Power chord : one man's ear-splitting quest to find his guitar heroes
- Title
- Power chord : one man's ear-splitting quest to find his guitar heroes / Thomas Scott McKenzie.
- Author
- McKenzie, Thomas Scott.
- Publication
- New York : HarperCollins : !tbooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers ©2012.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Details the author's efforts to track down the legendary guitar heroes of the golden age of heavy metal, including Slash, Ace Frehley, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch, and Mick Mars, and get them to share the secret to their success.
- Alternative Title
- One man's ear-splitting quest to find his guitar heroes
- Subject
- Contents
- Prologue -- The hardest working slacker in the world -- First sighting -- Musical debates and the saving grace of video games -- A rocking tour of Evansville guitar stores -- The guitar hero constellation and plans for a pilgrimage -- A Midwestern metal escape -- Hitting the road -- A soggy county fair -- Guns, blades, a mechanical bull, and some useful chord tips -- A phone call from space -- Play from the heart -- The virtuoso -- Guitar hero calling -- Blood, sweat, and strats -- Grandpa sex, ringer tambourine players, and rocking the whisky -- The man with the pointy guitar -- Bending behind the nut -- The view from the Kiss stage -- Stage fright -- Going kamikaze -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JND 12-108
- ISBN
- 9780061964961 (pbk.)
- 0061964964 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- bl2012026555
- OCLC
- 805723651
- Author
- McKenzie, Thomas Scott.
- Title
- Power chord : one man's ear-splitting quest to find his guitar heroes / Thomas Scott McKenzie.
- Imprint
- New York : HarperCollins : !tbooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers ©2012.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Research Call Number
- JND 12-108