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Title: The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll by Patricia Romanowski, Holly George-Warren, Jon Pareles, Calif.) Rolling Stone (San Francisco ISBN: 0-684-81044-1 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An invaluable resource for quick artist info
Comment: As the former Acquisition Manager for the Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia department I found this book to be an invaluable resource time and again. I am still involved with the memo world as an online content specialist and use this book virtually everyday as I don't think anyone can remember everything verbatim no matter how involved they may be with music and/or it's history. The information contained in the RS encyclopedia offers a quick reference to chronological listing of each artists discography and the text usually supports that with info regarding more significant artist career movement. As always, no amount of information is ever too much and this volume at times does leave a little bit to be desired, but as a quick reference and informative overview guide it is definately commendable and it includes a greater number of artists than any other reference book I am familiar with . The only other book I find to be more useful with regard to specific chronological movement of an artist's career is entitled "Rock Movers and Shakers" by Dafydd Rees/Luke Crampton, 1991, it may be out of print but is still available second hand, however due to the degree of content on the artists included therein, it does not cover as great a degree of entries as does the RS Encyclopedia. Another good resource/review guide are Trouser Press Rock Publications. Individual biography/autobio offer the most detailed resource providing they are penned by a respectable source.
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent reference book, many hours of good reading
Comment: I grew up on Rock & Roll and beach music in the Portsmouth/Virginia Beach area, went to many concerts listed in the book, saw many of the performers in person, from the R&R reviews in the late 50's to the big 2&3 day concerts at race tracks, like Rockingham Speedway, NC, in the 70's. I remember seeing The Beach Boys at a small high school football stadium in Virginia Beach, while sitting on wooden bleacher seats, with the bands performing on the football field. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of R&R brought back many great memories, and fired up some that had been forgotten. However, I made a list, as I was reading the book, of those who seem to be missing from this edition. They include a variety of performers, such as: Robin Luke; Bill Deal and the Rhondells; The Swinging Medalions; Tommy Sands; Jimmie Rogers ("Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"); The Robbin Thompson Band; Ketty Lester; Bob Kuban and the In Men; and Lennis Guess. Each of these performers are played again and again on oldies stations, but were somehow left out of the book. While some may be considered "regional" performers, they all had hit records and deserve at least a mention in the next edition. Even more so than some of the English and African and European performers that no one here in America, much less, Virginia Beach, has ever heard of or even seen perform. I mean, why leave out Bill Deal and the Rhondells, the greatest band that ever played Virginia Beach in the 60's, and include Falco? Why was Robin Luke left out, but Manu Dibango included? Get my point!? I realize this book was not published just for the American reader, but, after all, did Cypress Hill really have a greater impact or contribution to R&R than Lennis Guess or Ketty Lester? I hope the next edition calls upon an editor who can really go back to the early days of R&R and include ALL of those true R&R performers who deserve the recognition given instead in this edition to the flash-in-the-pan performers, whose contribution to R&R is highly questionable. I look forward to the next edition, and in the meanwhile, my list of those whom I think should be included, who were left out by the "editors", will probably be longer and longer. But, aside from the omissions, I have had many hours of pleasure reading about the true poets of the 20th century, the stars of Rock and Roll!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Rock and Roll?
Comment: If you believe that rock and roll essentially died with the advent of MTV, and that rap, pop, disco, funk or anything besides rock and roll does not belong in an encyclopedia of rock and roll, don't buy this book. However, if you are perfectly happy with the state of rock music today, and Ice Cube is just as much rock and roll to you as Led Zeppelin, and you've enjoyed the state of rock music in general since LiveAid, buy this book, you'll love it. Basically, this book should be entitled "We really needed the money, so we took our great book from 1983, added anything resembling music that had transpired since then, but essentially kept the title to fool you into spending your money on something you thought was exclusively about rock and roll like our old book. Sorry". Shame on you, Pareles, Romanowski and everyone else associated with this book. Rock music IS truly dead, just let it be. This book just reminds me of everything that has gone wrong with rock music since '83, and is not worth the paper it is written on. Buy the '83 edition, end of story.
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Title: The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Revised and Updated for the 21st Century) by Holly George-Warren, Patricia Romanowski, Jon Pareles ISBN: 0743201205 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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