Author: Brod, Doug
Price: $12.44
Category:Music
Publication Date:2020-12-01T00:00:01Z
Pages:320
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0306845199
ISBN:13:9780306845192
In the mid-’70s four flamboyant bands reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a novel theatricality. Brod offers an eye- and ear-opening look at a crucial moment in music history, when rock became fun again and a gig became a show. He seamlessly interweaves the narratives of KISS, Cheap Trick, and Aerosmith with that of Starz, a criminally neglected band whose fate may have been sealed by a shocking act of violence. Brod shows how these distinctly American groups– three of them now enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame– laid the foundation for two seemingly opposed rock genres: the hair metal of Poison, Skid Row, and Mötley Crüe and the grunge of Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and the Melvins.– adapted from jacket
