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Myths and legends form the foundations for all cultures. The Greek and Roman myths were early tales created to explain the world and are now inextricably woven throughout music, art, film, theater, literature, politics and daily life. Thousands of years old, these myths continue to inspire and intrigue, and this audio keeps these stories vibrant with new recordings by an intriguing array of artists including Iggy Pop, George Clinton, Suzanne Vega and others. ... Read more

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Today the walking miracle that is Iggy Pop continues to record, perform and shock. Yet in terms of music and celluloid history, 1972 was the year. During this time, Iggy & the Stooges-at the height of their musical powers and legendary excesses - recorded the now-seminal album Raw Power and performed their only UK gig at London's The Scala.

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Where The Stooges disappeard 1972?
In March 1972, Iggy and James, both completely off heroin, went on England to recruit a new band and start recording the album for CBS. In June joined Ron and Scott Asheton, and together worked on the new recordings untilSeptember same year. During their stay in London, The Stooges played onlyone concert in the King's Cross Cinema. Iggy was dressed only in silverlame trousers and had silver hair, black boots and black lipstick, his showand his mistreatment of audience had schocked all present. It was to betheir only show outside America. This book is photographic report from thisshow, a few photo sessions of the whole band, and also contains commonphotos with David Bowie and Lou Reed, captured on camera by legendary rockphotgrapher, Mick Rock. The book also contains his introduction andinterview between virtuoso with camera Mick Rock and rock monster Iggy Pop,conducted in 1972. If you like album cover of "Raw Power", thisbook is made for you. Since there is no audio or video recording from anyof The Stooges concert in 1972, this book offers unique experience for theband admirers. Raw Power! Look for the answer from the title in the book.

Some of the most exciting Rock n Roll pictures ever taken
IGGY POP & THE STOOGES, OUTTA DETROIT, WERE PRETTY MUCH THE UNIVERSALLY UNDISPUTED GREATEST INFLUENCE ON THE PUNK ROCK SCENE OF 1976-1977, WHICH PRODUCED CLASSIC BANDS LIKE THE CLASH AND THE SEX PISTOLS. IGGY & THE STOOGES' RECORDING CAREER LASTED FROM 1969-1973, RECORDING3 STUDIO ALBUMS AND ONE NOTORIOUS LIVE ALBUM.1972 WAS THE PEAK OF IGGYAND THE STOOGES BRILLIANCE AND OUTRAGEOUSNESS - IGGY'S ANTICS ANDAPPEARANCE MAKE THE SEX PISTOLS LOOK TAME IN COMPARISON.IF YOU WANT TOACTUALLY SEE ROCK N ROLL, BESIDES HEARING IT - THIS IS THE BOOK THAT SHOWSWHATROCK N ROLL, AT IT'S MOST EXCITING, LOOKS LIKE. BLOOD AND MAKEUP ANDBIZARRE/COMICAL/SICK POSES AND VISUAL RAW POWER!A MUST FOR EVERYIGGY/STOOGES/PUNK ROCK FAN, AND VERY LIKELY A FEAST FOR THE EYES FOR FANSOF ALL TYPES OF MUSIC! ... Read more

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My Brother's Autobiography
Being a "coming of age journey" Danny's story is about struggle on several fronts.Missplaced guilt on himself for our parent's divorce. The interwoven conflict between the seduction of the rock and drug life style as exemplified by Morrison as a role model,versus sober living,our father's world. Danny's final struggle against addiction with ultimate death and coming back to life is pretty wrenching stuff. Ikeep copies of Wonderland in my office and frequently give one to young patients that seem troubled with similar issues. Danny never thought of himself as "great author". However, his story has a universality about it which makes reading it a touchstone in the lives of a lot of people. I get letters expressing thanks and telling me of the impact Wonderland Ave had on them.Before he died of lung cancer, I told my brother that he had immortalized himself and his times.He laughed softly, but it seemed to comfort him quite a bit.

If you ever wondered how we got to "Just Say No", this will show you.
Let's be real.Danny Sugerman was involved with both the Doors and Iggy Pop, but this is not really a book about the music scene.This is a drug book, pure and simple - a memoir of addiction and recovery (mostly addiction, the recovery part is really short) that happens to have some famous people in it.It's not preachy and it's certainly not boring, but it gets the point across that if you use drugs, especially heroin, you've got an excellent chance of winding up dead or grossly incapacitated.The end of the book is a lengthy recitation of the fate of all of the major characters who have not already OD'ed in the earlier pages.It's about a page and a half of people dying, ending up in prison, or being paralyzed in a wheelchair somewhere.Just say no to drugs, kids.

Having said that, the book is somewhat contradictory in that it makes being young running loose on the Sunset Strip with a ton of drug money and a beautiful underage girlfriend seem pretty dern cool, and only gets heavy at the end when Our Hero realizes that it's time to pay the piper for all of his fun, and that unless he radically changes his ways the curtain is coming down.The book reminded me a bit of Anthony Kiedis's "Scar Tissue" but Anthony's book, while an honest first-person account, was also sort of flat and didn't really convey the sense of joy and glamour that would lead a young person down the path to drug addiction.By contrast, "Wonderland Avenue" will totally make you want to do drugs and then show you (not just tell you, show you) why you shouldn't.

The first half of the book shows Sugerman skipping down the path to Wonderland (the name of the street he eventually lived on during his heavy drug use period).A hyper kid who has a troubled relationship with his own parents, young Danny meets Jim Morrison and immediately casts him in the role of surrogate father figure.You'd expect Morrison to just brush this annoying fanboy aside, but instead he takes a real interest in the kid, recommends and lends books for Danny to read, gives him advice and even takes him to see a fellow musician (Tim Buckley, father of Jeff Buckley) who is unattractively addicted to heroin, as a caution against Danny getting involved with the stuff.Obviously, Jim's attempt at a lesson did not take.

After Jim's sudden death, Danny is understandably devastated and becomes close to Pam Courson (until she too dies) and Ray Manzarek as all attempt to get over their grief.Ray comes up with the idea of buying a house that will serve as the base for future musical projects and letting Danny live in it and take care of it in return for performing some management duties, which leads to Danny buying the house on Wonderland Avenue where the second part of the story takes place.This part of the tale seems a bit far-fetched as I wasn't sure why Ray would be leaving a kid as young as Danny, who by now is in his late teens or very early 20s, in charge of a house.One wonders if Danny was serving some kind of Kato Kaelin role or if maybe part of his job entailed finding drugs for folks, something which he obviously could do with ease.

No sooner has Danny moved into the house than he's taking in a girlfriend who, like most of the rock kids running wild in LA at that point, is beautiful and about 14 or 15.She is also not the sharpest knife in the drawer and you kind of wonder why, out of all the girls available, Danny picked her, but he explains that she's beautiful and that he doesn't need her to be smart because for intelligent conversation he has Ray to talk to anyway.Um, ok - just another reminder that we're not dealing with Mr. Mature here.Along the way, Danny decides to manage Iggy Pop, who is a mesmerizing performer and very popular with men and women alike, but is also himself a severe substance abuser and basically seems to wreck the joint wherever he goes.The rest of the book is an endless parade of Danny scoring drugs, cleaning up after his and his girlfriend's messes (at one point they actually crash a car from the freeway onto someone's roof, leave it there and walk away) and cleaning up after/ bailing out Iggy.Mackensie Phillips also makes a cameo appearance as a good friend of Danny's who is about the same age and also heavy into drugs. The book ends with Danny in rehab figuring out his life and reconciling with his father.Unfortunately, things don't work out so well for his girlfriend.

Don't read this book looking for stories about anyone's music or in-depth analyses of the Doors or Iggy.Instead, read it as sort of a real-life and actually true version of "A Million Little Pieces" with a rock soundtrack.Then go out and jog and drink some orange juice and be glad you're healthy - or get yourself to rehab if you're not.

Danny Sugerman: The Ultimate Doors Fan
Danny Sugerman was your typical precocious twelve year old filled with the enthusiasms and natural extremes of exuberance that comes with youth. His first was wrestling, the second was reptiles, which grew in greater proportions from his bedroom to the backyard; and when there was a flood his menagerie became a neighborhood collection with turtles and snakes being captured blocks away. Then came his parent's divorce and life took a turn for the worse in the form of his step-father, Clarence, a man who's treatment of Sugerman is mild in being called abusive. Clarence drove Sugerman out of the house and into some wild adventures ditching school, or pulling pranks at school. Then came the third obsession The Doors and Jim Morrison. Sugerman meets Morrison through an older friend of his who was promoting Doors shows and one night needed an extra hand to help move The Doors equipment. That night Sugerman met Jim Morrison and his life was seemingly changed forever. Through a series of misadventures at school and the worsening relationship with Clarence, Sugerman took to ditching school and showing up at The Doors' office in the hopes of seeing the band and Morrison. After a while it became natural, if he was going to be at the office anyway, to give him a job answering fan mail for the band, and from there his job duties increased as did his relationship with The Doors.

Despite the abusive relationship with his stepfather, and darker events of Sugerman's life his telling of the stories is quite often humorous. Sugerman has a natural knack at story telling and his adventures and tales of excess make them instantly accessible to the reader.

The major shortcoming of the book is when Jim Morrison goes to Paris so does the energy of the book. Sugerman's post Morrison life may have been marked by darker episodes with Pamela Courson, his own burgeoning drug habit, becoming Ray Manzarek's manager and getting him together with another Jim, Jim Osterberg aka Iggy Pop, as they tried to form a band, but Pop was too much the direct heir of Jim Morrison and after Iggy fails to show at a show at The Whisky; Ray having been through it all before quit's, the band. And with any autobiography it becomes a cautionary tale with the eventual reclamation of his life.

Wonderland Ave is an important book in The Doors canon. It gives the reader a firsthand account of Jim Morrison, and in Sugerman's discussions with Morrison it's clear that Morrison respected Sugerman, he treated him and his feelings as an adult and encouraged Sugerman in writing calling the editor of Creem magazine and got Sugerman his first writing assignment, an interview with Jim Morrison. And Sugerman is a good writer; in his telling of the stories of his life he's able to relate the humor of the situation, and the people he encounters are rendered in vivid, living, breathing colors.

Guide to addiction
Danny details his journey from out-of-control 3-year-old to addict to author. Some of the stops on the journey are horrifying, such as his father's walking out because of Danny's unruliness, and Danny's obsessive searches for a heroin supplier. It is hard not to identify with Danny, even if the reader does not share his weaknesses. His writing the book evidences his recovery.

Autobiography of Danny Sugerman and his friend Heroin
This book was longer than it needed to be, at 460 pages.While it is a good (if not essential) read for any real Doors fan, it is mostly a one-dimensional biography of Danny Sugerman.Sugerman's difficult childhood is enough to make any sensible person shudder - we thought Morrison lived fast and died young!But Sugerman gives us about 200 pages of 13-16 year old outlandish, unsustainable, juvenile delinquency nightmares, and "Bad Ladds."

Much of the book is a fearful account of the horror of heroin addiction and the narrow little slave-like life of an addict.Jim Morrison is portrayed in a strange prophet like manner - but, as the aftermath of the book points out, the path of this rock n' roll excess is death.

Manzarek comes off like a real good guy to know, and sets up Sugerman on Wonderland Avenue where he proceeds to throw it all away.Sugerman comes off as a selfish addict, leaving a swath of death and destruction. Maybe it wasn't Sugerman, but the disease.

I am listening to Manzarek's "Solar Boat" from Golden Scarab (1973), the album he composed at the time of the book.I'd never listened to any post-Morrison song before.It's 2009 and hard for me to imagine life in the Hollywood Hills, Laurel Canyon, Wonderland Avenue, 1973.Hard to imagine the 13 year old runaway climbing up the steps to the Doors office.But this book gives you a sense of what it was like to be there.And so as I finished reading the last page and set the book down, I leave Manzarek to have a seat at the keyboard on a bright sunlit day on Wonderland Avenue, and sing about Moonlight drives and tightrope rides into the sun, in the middle of a blooming decadent chaos. ... Read more

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Iggy.........I still need more.....
It's a great book for Iggy fans, as there isn't much out there- except for lately, which is good, because he's going to retire---- and if you've read CREEM magazine over the years- the best interviews are in there.

Aside from that, you really need to see him LIVE to get the full-on Iggy.

I have the first edition of this, with the cover photo of him kissing the statue.That was worth the price of the book.He also signed it for me, which is nice too.

If you're a big Iggy fan, you'll "get it"if not, go and buy Britney's bio.lol.

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Down and Dirty: Legends of Rock (compilation CD) Tracks: 1. Bluntman - Belladonna 2. Marching Off to War - Motorhead 3. Hit and Run - Girlschool 4. Isolation - Dessau 5. Search and Destroy - Iggy Pop 6. Tied to the Bells - Tuff 7. Cold Hearted Woman - Streets 8. The Hunter - GTR 9. Seven Stars - Uriah Heep 10. Thirty Days in the Hole - Humble Pie ... Read more

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The former editor of Mojo magazine tells the story of Iggy's life, mega-hits and then hitting rock-bottom in jail and mental institutions. It is the image of Iggy Pop versus the man behind that image. This is a portrait of the real man behind the the rock star image. ... Read more