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Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'n Roll Survivor

by Al Kooper

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A rock 'n roll classic, back in print, updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever, Al Kooper's legendary Backstage Passes is available again Al's quirkly life, from would'be teenage rocker, to crashing Bob Dylan's recording session and playing the organ on Highway 61, to forming Blood, Sweat, and Tears and masterminding the Super Sessions, it's all here...plus, in this updated version, Al rides with us all the way back to the end of the 20th century. There has never been a more wickedly humorous and honest book by a man who has made such rock history.

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Frank, funny, and illuminating reminiscences about the life and lively adventures of the legendary Kooper, and many other of rock 'n' roll's greatest stars, fill these tell-all pages. 60 illustrations.
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eric_janik, January 30, 2008 (view all comments by eric_janik)
This is what rock and roll in the 1960s (and 70s) was about, told by a musician who was in the middle of it, who was sober enough to remember most of it, and happens to be an excellent story teller besides. Hear these accounts
- The inside story of being a teen-aged sideman in the Brill building
- How "This Diamond Ring" was actually intended to be an R&B song
- How Kooper got into Dylan's "Highway 61" sessions, fumbled his way through the only take of "Like a Rolling Stone," and inspired a whole generation of folk-rock B3 players
- What really happened in Blood, Sweat, and Tears
- And to discourage guitar wankers from jamming with you by playing in C# (Hint: it's one up from C)

I had two editions of this book stolen from me, and, frankly, I can't blame them one bit.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780879309220
Subtitle:
Memoirs of a Rock 'n Roll Survivor
Author:
Kooper, Al
Publisher:
Backbeat Books
Subject:
Composers & Musicians - Rock
Subject:
Reference
Subject:
Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Genres & Styles - Rock
Subject:
Rock musicians
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Rock musicians -- United States.
Subject:
Kooper, Al
Edition Description:
Updated
Publication Date:
February 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
327
Dimensions:
9.13x7.05x.79 in. 1.43 lbs.
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