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Hollywood Rocks!: The Ultimate Guide to the 1980's Hollywood, California Rock-N-Roll Music Scene

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This book is well worth the price for just the flyers alone. It is thick and large and in full exploding rock and roll color!! Many good Los Angeles bands are featured (Janes Addiction), and a few that never broke big but are still around (Rebel Rebel), and that is what makes this book the bomb. A Box Set CD and DVD companion will be out in 2005, featuring all the bands in the book. This book lets everyone in on the lifestyle that was the Sunset Strip during that time the 80's to 1990. I'm sorry I hadn't thought of the Idea first!!!

I knew this book would be cool, but after opening it I really felt like I was living on The Sunset Strip all over again... I had to get my husband to go in my storage and bust out my Guns and Roses T-Shirt and my studded belt....
Anna

Great Pictures of some of the great forgotten bands of the 80s. This book is a must for people who lived or was in a band through the era and for people who would love to know more on those underground Glam Sleaze Bands. Well worth it.

This book is the best way I have found to try to explain to people what it was like - what it felt like, sounded like, smelled like - to be in downtown Hollywood or on Hollywood Blvd during the mid to late 80s. Members of a band going down the street with a handfull of flyers and a staple gun plastering their images all over evey telephone pole or vacant place only to have another band come along 30 minutes later and cover it all up with THEIR flyers... going into the clothing and leather shops for spandex, studded belts, wristbands, bandannas, and shades - it was an amazing time and place that will never be again, but for those who were there even for a moment it will live forever, and for those who never got there, this book well help to to at least understand a little bit what it was like. I still HAVE some of the flyers in this book....

This book is a top notch reference guide to the 80's and early 90's rock scene in Los Angeles, California. The amount of research that was done here is very impressive. There's a section of the book dedicated to each of the main Sunset Strip clubs as well as a few clubs that were off the Strip such as The Troubador and The Country Club. Excellent photos as well! Highly recommended if you're an 80's hard rock fan like I am.

WOW!! HOW EXCITING TO RE- LIVE THOSE EARLY 80'S IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA!! A LOAD OF GORGEOUS ROCK BANDS, TRYING THEY'RE DARNDEST TO REACH THE STARS, AND I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE THEIR TO WITNESS THE KAOS AND SOME VERY SPLENDID TIMES!!!! SO INTERESTING NOW TO SEE HOW SOME OF THE MUCISIANS EVOLVED!! ALL THE BANDS WERE SO YOUNG AND EAGER FOR SUCCESS, AND WHAT FREAKIN' FUN IT WAS!! THIS BOOK AND THE CD'S ARE REMARKABLE AND ENJOYABLE FOR EVERYONE, EVEN IF YOU WERE'NT THERE! I SUGGUST PURCHASING AS MANY AS YOU CAN GET YOU SWEET LITTLE HANDS ON!! ENJOY! KELLY

This book has so much in it! It makes me feel like I'm back in that time period again.

Terrific pictures really show how hot the glam scene was in LA in the 80's. If you are an 80's rock-n-roll fan, you do not want to miss this book.

Hollywood Rocks is a collection of glam band photos, memorabilia, etc., which reflects on the 1980's and early '90's glam band era that was centered in Los Angeles and the Sunset Blvd. club scene. This was a special time and genre in hard rock history and this volume brings back many memories. My only criiticism of this work is that it was short on script.

I love this set! It's easy to find all the hits from these artist, but alot of these are rare gems. The book that goes along with it is also totally cool! Great stories and tons of rare photos!!! The book & cd set are each stylishly packaged... a true rock & Roll dream come true! AND... THEY'RE ONLY $15. BUCKS A PIECE!!! DON'T WAIT... YOU'LL BE GLAD TO HAVE THIS HISTORY AND INFORMATION BOTH IN AUDIO AND BOOK FORM!