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A review by shinychick
What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born by Michael Walker
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So, the blurb says it's about the summer of 1973, when three huge rock bands (The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Alice Cooper) did their biggest tours ever. These are the backstage stories of rock stars and excess, from a roadie who lived it.
Sounds great, right?
Except the first few chapters/prologue/intro is all numbers and dry background info. Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies tour had a setup that cost $250,000 and had to be hauled by two semi trucks. Led Zeppelin's name came from an inside joke about how well their music would do in America. The Who specialized in rock operas.
I was So. BORED.
The most interesting thing I got out of these 30 pages was that Cooper himself (real name Vince) had six broken ribs at the end of the tour.
If the whole book was like that, I would have blown through it; riding high on Caitlin Moran and Allan Jones, it did not hit the spot.
Sounds great, right?
Except the first few chapters/prologue/intro is all numbers and dry background info. Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies tour had a setup that cost $250,000 and had to be hauled by two semi trucks. Led Zeppelin's name came from an inside joke about how well their music would do in America. The Who specialized in rock operas.
I was So. BORED.
The most interesting thing I got out of these 30 pages was that Cooper himself (real name Vince) had six broken ribs at the end of the tour.
If the whole book was like that, I would have blown through it; riding high on Caitlin Moran and Allan Jones, it did not hit the spot.