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Bandalism: Do Not Destroy Your Group | 
 enlarge | Author: Julian Ridgway
Publisher: SAF Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 122038
Media: Paperback
Edition: First Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 0946719969
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780946719969
ASIN: 0946719969
Publication Date: May 10, 2007
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Don't shoot me, I'm only the bassist May 25, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ever wondered why so many bands go through the same motions of falling out, breaking up, or firing their bass players? Well, this is the book for you. Taking examples from dozens of famous bands, from The Smiths to Led Zeppelin and The Beatles, 'Bandalism' reveals the unseen patterns behind all the bitchy behaviour. And takes a few potshots at bassists along the way.
It's pitched as a self-help manual for new indie bands looking to avoid all the usual pitfalls of pop music fame, from releasing crap second albums to breaking up before they've had the chance to do their best work. But I'm not sure that's the real appeal of 'Bandalism', at least not to me. This book is for everyone with an interest in social behaviour, group dynamics or popular music of any genre. Or anyone who likes a good laugh at the expense of the assorted rock and pop gods of the last few decades.
Ridgway's light prose pulls you in and has you laughing with ill-concealed Schadenfreude. He shows you how even your most treasured musical heroes have acted like arses at some - if not most - points in their careers. And what's more, he'll convince you it was all inevitable. And still is.
So, less a self-help guide than a warning to stay out of the whole ugly music industry altogether. This is not a book for the po-faced muso or the self-important industry insider. Ridgway has obviously experienced too much of the sticky-floored London indie scene himself to write that sort of book. Instead, he has crafted a testament to the ultimate futility of the lust for fame and fortune. A hilarious antidote to the preening and cant of pop, in this or any age.
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