{"id":2195,"date":"2012-10-15T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2012-10-15T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:38:49","slug":"the-inside-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/the-inside-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inside Stories&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230; According to the Rock stars who wrote them&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0A number of &#8220;My Generation&#8221; musicians are bringing out their autobiographies and\/or memoirs&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0Dylan&#8217;s been out for a while, but, Keith Richards, Pete Townsend, Neil Young, and Rod Stewart have jumped on the band wagon&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve already read Keith&#8217;s &#8220;Life&#8221; and most of Neil&#8217;s, &#8220;Waging Heavy Peace&#8221;&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve bought Pete&#8217;s book (Who I Am), but haven&#8217;t read it yet &#8211; It just came out on October 8th, and Rod&#8217;s is due out on the 23rd of October&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Both Keith&#8217;s and Neil&#8217;s are very interesting reads&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Lots of inside stuff and really cool reading, of course, you have to be aware that this is from THEIR viewpoint and memories&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I was amazed of the intricate detail that Keith remembers, even his early childhood and names of schoolmates and such from his long distant past&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I tried reliving my childhood in my mind and I had lots of trouble remembering specific people, their names, and any sort of accurate timeline for way back then&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe all the drugs he did kept his memory alive and well &#8211; Maybe&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0He&#8217;s now on the wagon (he says) 100% &#8211; Neil Young claims the same, but states that he is now having trouble writing new material!&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I highly recommend any and all of the above books if you&#8217;re into music&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Oh, Yeah, another book worth mentioning, although it came out in 1999, is Bill Wyman&#8217;s, &#8220;Rolling with The Stones&#8221;&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s a coffee table size book with tons and tons of pictures and memorabilia&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I think it&#8217;s the most accurate record of the Stones during, what I consider, their peak years, and Bill was well known as the historian for the Stones&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0I checked it out at my local library&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Take a break and do some reading &#8211; You might learn something new!&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230; According to the Rock stars who wrote them&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0A number of &#8220;My Generation&#8221; musicians are bringing out their autobiographies and\/or memoirs&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0Dylan&#8217;s been out for a while, but, Keith Richards, Pete Townsend, Neil Young, and Rod Stewart have jumped on the band wagon&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve already read Keith&#8217;s &#8220;Life&#8221; and most of Neil&#8217;s, &#8220;Waging Heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}