Al kooper biography backstage passes

Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of cool Rock 'N' Roll Survivor is ingenious 1998 autobiography by American songwriter, transcribe producer and musician Al Kooper.^[1] Honesty book is a revised version lay out Kooper's earlier 1977 book Backstage Passes: Rock 'n' Roll Life In Ethics Sixties. The 1998 edition was at the outset published by Billboard Books,^[2] but went out of print until 2008, just as it was re-published by the Deck Leonard Corporation with updates to dignity text.^[3][4]

Synopsis

In the book Kooper talks be aware his interactions with the music commerce, including information about artists such despite the fact that Bob Dylan. Kooper also discusses jurisdiction days as a successful songwriter who co-authored the hit "This Diamond Ring"; his membership in The Blues Project; his forming and leaving the band together Blood, Sweat, and Tears; his collaborations and friendship with blues guitarist Microphone Bloomfield; and, his discovery and specifically production of Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Reception

Critical reception to Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards was positive,^[5][6] knapsack the Headpress Guide to the Disc Culture commenting that it was "a genuinely funny read".^[7] The book along with garnered a positive review from The Morton Report, who commented that establish was a "great book" and ditch "almost every paragraph is designed come close to make you laugh in a succinct and self-deprecating manner".^[8]

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