Countless "truth is stranger than fiction" tales, 177 magical concerts, 100 unique bands, 50 years of finding a way to the next show, and 10 Rules Of The Road all add up to 1 ordinary guy's extraordinary love letter to live rock & roll.
And now, the book with a 4.4 star review on Amazon just got even better - welcome to the updated and expanded 2025 edition of TEN RULES OF THE ROAD I LEARNED AT MY FIRST CONCERT: AN ORDINARY GUY'S LIFETIME OF LIVE ROCK & ROLL!
The new edition is 582 pages, with over 250 pages of brand new content including:
- updates elements to every section of the book – the rules, the essays, the concert summaries, and the statistics.
- more tales from my 20th century concert adventures that I dredged out of my memory that didn't make the first edition
- details of all the shows I’ve attended since 2021, after the first edition was published, until today
- complete re-writes of Rules #2, #5, #6, #7, # 8 and #10, as well as the Grateful Dead essay, have been almost completely re-written.
- consolidating the Song Selection essays from three to two but adding more songs to each remaining chapter in the process, doubling the number of tunes covered from 40 to 80.
- replacing the discarded song essay, with a new one about the relationship between rock & roll and Broadway, a unique pairing that only really came into focus for me in the last year or so.
- adding numerous new charts/tables to the statistics section
- quadrupling the number of setlists from shows I attended.
- re-editing the entire book to clean up some areas that either seemed cumbersome or didn’t flow well
- reformatting the entire book to give it a more professional look and feel.
It's bigger! It's better! It's the perfect gift for you or the rock and roll fan in your life! And the paperback is still only $14.99!
2 comments:
Congratulations on finally getting Amazon to upload the updated Kindle version. Now you just have to tell them to update the description 'rectangle', which still says 2020.
Thanks! Amazon says all should be working correctly. It was hard enough to get them to fix the book to the uodated version - I'm fine with the description sayin 2020 since 1) that was the original publication date, 2) the cover shows its the updated edition and 3) I don't have the timeor patience to deal with Amazon again over the date issue!
Enjoy the book!
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