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Jacob Slichter - So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-gunned A Roomful Of Record Executives And Other True Tales From A Drummer's Life

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Authors:	Jacob Slichter
Nonfiction Category:	Biography & Autobiography · Music
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:	Format: Paperback, 286 Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group (May 10, 2005) Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.54 lbs. ISBN: 9780767914710
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Details:	Drummer Jacob Slichter's first intimations of rock stardom come at a small club gig in Minneapolis: the signs are not good. He suffers from stage fright and chronic feelings of insecurity, and is seeing a therapist--even before his band, Semisonic, has shown any signs of popularity outside its hometown. Slichter relates the story of his subsequent roller coaster ride on the rock & roll hype machine in SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK & ROLL STAR, a book that's partly a salutary lesson in the arcane ways of the music business, and partly the recounting of a rite of passage, from would-be rock star to something approaching the real thing. In a series of dryly hilarious scenes, from his first hair-dye job to Semisonic's first video, Slichter describes a comprehensive litany of temporary triumphs, like the band's incandescent performance at a music business convention, and more permanent disasters, like the commercial failure of all their recordings save their one hit single. The sex, drugs, and money all happen to other
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