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This is the first biography of Joe Walsh, from his days in the James Gang to his membership in the Eagles. One of the most colorful characters in all of rock and roll, Walsh has enjoyed a successful musical career for more than five-decades. With his offbeat attitude and quirky sense of humor, he earned a number of nicknames including the Analog Man and the Clown Prince of Rock Guitar. In the process, he wrote and recorded some of the most memorable classics of the 1970s including Rocky Mountain Way, Life's Been Good and Funk #49. As a member of the Eagles, Walsh helped to craft a number of enduring rock standards such as Hotel California, In The City and Life In The Fast Lane. This book chronicles Walsh's often-complicated life as a musical showman, a talented guitarist and a much-respected ordinary, average guy.
As the definitive biography of American-bred rocker Tom Petty, this updated and revised book examines his extensive music career, his personal life and his many public battles. After a momentary but pivotal encounter with Elvis Presley at age 10, Petty felt destined to pursue a career in rock and roll. Raised on a steady diet of Elvis and the Beatles, Petty left the safe confines of Gainesville in 1974 and headed for Los Angeles. Although Petty fared poorly with his early group Mudcrutch, he later formed the Heartbreakers. But with his career taking various twists and turns, Petty also thrived as a solo artist, a cofounder of the rock supergroup the Traveling Wilburys and a member of the reformed Mudcrutch. Along the way, Petty was forced to battle his own record company in court, nearly lost his life in a house fire, spent two years as a recluse after a painful divorce and became best friends with a former Beatle, George Harrison. As a prolific singer and songwriter, Tom Petty made music that mattered and remained at the top of his game for four decades with timeless rock anthems such as Breakdown, Refugee and I Won't Back Down.
Are we not men? Best known for their industrial suits and red energy domes, Devo merged innovative stage sets, robotic choreography and futuristic stage uniforms with experimental music and quirky lyrics. Challenging the boundaries of popular music in the 1970s and '80s, Devo wrote their own rules. Emerging from the industrial rust-belt city of Akron, the Spud Boys were products of their Midwestern upbringing. This book chronicles Devo's formative years, the many twist and turns in the group's lengthy career as well as the stories behind the group's songs. There is also an examination of the Akron music scene that spawned Devo and other like-minded rock bands.
This is the first biography of the Black Keys. Emerging from the rust belt city of Akron, guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney formed the duo in 2001. As perpetual underdogs who recorded their first two albums in Carney's basement, the Black Keys spent a decade criss-crossing the country in a packed minivan. However, after releasing the 2010 album Brothers, the Black Keys were on their way to becoming the biggest rock band in the world. Merging alternative rock with electric blues, the Black Keys created a musical storm as they filled concert halls and headlined festivals. Remaining at the top of their game in the 2020s, Auerbach and Carney continue to churn out their unique brand of bluesy rock and roll.
What does it mean to be human? What is knowledge? What is freedom? Philosophy offers answers to these questions. However, are its rarefied arguments relevant to people today or merely abstractions? Aren't we really more occupied with daily survival and the unending problems that surround our human relationships?
Nonetheless, most if not everyone looks for meaning in life. It is less than satisfying to think of ourselves as specks on a random planet in a solar system and part of a vast, clockwork universe. To dismiss consciousness as meaningless or merely a play of chance is to give up our efforts to find any true meaning in existence.
Freedom through Love offers possibilities for dealing with some of these big questions and leads us to satisfying and convincing conclusions. Although based on Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom, Nick Thomas does not begin his book with complex philosophical arguments, but with themes that reflect the modern time. Let us not start with abstract questions far from life, but from life itself, he suggests in his opening page. Thus, the search for meaning, truth, freedom, and love begins with the realities of our daily life--people and human relationships, which constitute the most difficult, though real, issues of contemporary society and life
Using an accessible question-and-answer format, this short but focused book tackles themes relating to the etheric, life realm. What is etheric technology? What are the impacts of radioactivity and atomic energy? How should we read apocalyptic symptoms in science and society?
In a fascinating series of discussions, Nick Thomas examines a range of concepts, including:
- the right and wrong ways to develop an etheric technologyThe explanations and ideas in this book help to evoke a living picture of a great struggle between forces of good and evil, with the future of humanity and the Earth at stake.
