
Addicted To Noise
The Music Writings of Michael Goldberg
Michael Goldberg(Author)
Backbeat Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2022
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-1-4930-6810-4 (ISBN)
Description
Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist. From combative interviews with Frank Zappa and Tom Waits to essays on how Jack Kerouac influenced Bob Dylan and the lasting importance of San Francisco's first punk rock club, Goldberg, as novelist Dana Spiotta wrote, "shows us how consequential music can be."
Contained within these pages: interviews with Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Flipper, John Fogerty, Neil Young, and Rick James, along with profiles of Robbie Robertson, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, the Clash, Prince, Michael Jackson, the Flamin' Groovies, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, X, Laurie Anderson, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, Devo, San Francisco punks Crime, and more.
Plus short takes on Muddy Waters, Townes Van Zandt, Captain Beefheart, Professor Longhair, and others. As Greil Marcus writes in the Foreword, "You can feel the atmosphere: someone has walked into a room with a pencil in his hand-as the words go in perhaps the first song about a music critic, not counting Chuck Berry's aside about the writers at the rhythm reviews-and suddenly people are relaxed . . . He isn't after your secrets. He doesn't want to ruin your career to make his. He doesn't care what you think you need to hide. He actually is interested in why and how you make your music and what you think of it. So people open up, very quickly, and, very quickly, as a reader, you're not reading something you've read before."
Contained within these pages: interviews with Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, Lou Reed, Flipper, John Fogerty, Neil Young, and Rick James, along with profiles of Robbie Robertson, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, the Clash, Prince, Michael Jackson, the Flamin' Groovies, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, X, Laurie Anderson, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton, Devo, San Francisco punks Crime, and more.
Plus short takes on Muddy Waters, Townes Van Zandt, Captain Beefheart, Professor Longhair, and others. As Greil Marcus writes in the Foreword, "You can feel the atmosphere: someone has walked into a room with a pencil in his hand-as the words go in perhaps the first song about a music critic, not counting Chuck Berry's aside about the writers at the rhythm reviews-and suddenly people are relaxed . . . He isn't after your secrets. He doesn't want to ruin your career to make his. He doesn't care what you think you need to hide. He actually is interested in why and how you make your music and what you think of it. So people open up, very quickly, and, very quickly, as a reader, you're not reading something you've read before."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Illustrations
41 b/w photos
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 237 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
844 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-6810-4 (9781493068104)
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Persons
Michael Goldberg is a journalist, novelist, and photographer. He has been interviewing and photographing musicians since he was seventeen. While a junior at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, he managed to interview the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia. He was a senior writer and associate editor at Rolling Stone magazine for a decade. In 1994, he founded the first web music magazine, the award-winning Addicted To Noise, and was a senior vice president at the SonicNet music site, and subsequently at MTV Online. His books include Wicked Game: The True Story of James Calvin Wilsey, Ture Love Scars, The Flowers Lied, and Untitled.