"Read this book immediately if you like truth, drugs, generation
gaps, guitars, and lifelong quests for freedom and kicks." --Craig
Finn, The Hold Steady Thomas Ransom, born to a severely
dysfunctional southern family transplanted to New York City, is
left to his own devices by neglectful parents, and spends his
childhood shadowing his criminally-inclined half-brother and
roaming the city with hard-drinking teenage pals. He eventually
finds an outlet as the flamboyant singer of a downtown rock band,
and later as the young editor of the Detroit-based magazine that
invented punk, only to return to New York, at the height of the
1970s bacchanal, and crash. But it isn't music that saves him. It's
a soft-spoken painter, who turns out to be the most outrageous
character of all. With echoes of Almost Famous and Just Kids,
LOUDMOUTH tracks an impassioned musician and writer out among the
punks, hippies, and wild geniuses of rock when music was the center
of the world. Author Robert Duncan was barely out of his teens when
he started writing for the influential music magazine Creem,
becoming its managing editor at 22. He went on to write for Rolling
Stone, Circus, Life, and dozens of other publications, interviewing
hundreds of rock stars at the top of their game. In the process,
Duncan became a rock Zelig: he shares tales of his time with a
young, scrawny Bruce Springsteen while driving him around Detroit;
he introduces The Clash's Mick Jones and Joe Strummer to a
broken-down piano player of dubious ability, leading to a
hilariously disastrous recording session with the band; he works
alongside legendary rock critic Lester Bangs, witnesses his tragic
spiral, and finally discovers him dead of an OD in the apartment
next door. These experiences, and many others, provide the fuel for
his debut novel, LOUDMOUTH, making it what Brian Jonestown
Massacre's Joel Gion calls, "A sonic wail of a tale about the
youthful beginnings of one of the Mount Rushmore 'heads' of rock
'n' roll journalism."
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