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Punk Diary, 1970-1979: The Ultimate Complete Day-By-Day Reference Guide to Punk

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This book is riveting. I label it dangerous, because after you'ver read it, you will be compelled to go out and spend all kinds of money seeking out records from all the bands that are spoken of in the book. Nothing is missing. Concerts that I attended are there with dates, times and copies of ticket stubbs. You thought you knew who played for who...........then you read this. Fascinating.

Unlike any other book on the market about the Punk Rock revolution. It can be read cover to cover (as I did!) or you can pick and choose the entries searching for information on your favorite bands. If you are a music enthusiast, this book is definitely for you. It has all the stories on ALL of the bands whether they were comercially successful or not. Perhaps the best thing about the book is the excellent CD that comes with it. I can't wait to read the follow up!

Getting this book is like striking gold for anyone who loves punk rock. It's a treasure-trove of information, in meticulous order. This is the kind of book you can open randomly at any page and just start reading. The author really did his homework. If you want to learn more about punk, you can definitely get the information reading this book.

Anyone interested in the history of Rock should get this book. It's written in chronological order, and I found myself spending hours following the intricate relationships between the various bands.

George Gimarc's low-budget book is crammed full of interesting and (to me) unknown facts about various punk and new wave bands (and their early years). Obviously culled from various articles in (mostly) British rock magazines and other sources, you won't be able to put this book down. George's new book: POST PUNK DIARY, is coming in the fall of 1997. I can't wait for it to come out

I routinely taped his radio program "Rock and Roll Alternative" in the late 70s to early 80s. He was always introducing new songs and educating me about the new music going on. If one of the new bands happened to be in town he almost always had them in the studio for an interview. This book is a great retrospective on that period of my life.

If you are into punk, this book will elighten you as to the roots of the punk scene. I'm too young to have been a part of it, but reading about it was cool. The best thing about it though are the tracks by Hagfish included on the CD. It's the only way to get a CD with these rare Hagfish songs