Joe Perryrsquo;s New York Times bestselling memoir of life in the rock-and-roll band Aerosmith: ldquo;An insightful and harrowing roller coaster ride through the career of one of rock and rollrsquo;s greatest guitarists. Strap yourself inrdquo; (Slash).Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Joe Perry was a boy growing up in small-town Massachusetts. He idolized Jacques Cousteau and built his own diving rig that he used to explore a local lake. He dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. But Perryrsquo;s neighbors had teenage sons; and those sons had electric guitars; and the noise he heard when they started playing would change his life. The guitar became his passion; an object of lust; an outlet for his restlessness and his rebellious soul. That passion quickly blossomed into an obsession; and he got a band together. One night after a performance he met a brash young musician named Steven Tyler; before long; Aerosmith was born. What happened over the next forty-five years has become the stuff of legend: the knockdown; drag-out; band-splintering fights; the drugs; the booze; the rehab; the packed arenas and timeless hits; the reconciliations and the comebacks. Rocks is an unusually searching memoir of a life that spans from the top of the world to the bottom of the barrelmdash;several times. It is a study of endurance and brotherhood; with Perry providing remarkable candor about Tyler; as well as new insights into their powerful but troubled relationship. It is an insiderrsquo;s portrait of the rock and roll family; featuring everyone from Jimmy Page to Alice Cooper; Bette Midler to Chuck Berry; John Belushi to Al Hirschfeld. It takes us behind the scenes at unbelievable moments such as Joe and Stevenrsquo;s appearance in the movie of Sgt. Pepperrsquo;s Lonely Hearts Club Band (they act out the murders of Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees). Full of humor; insight; and brutal honesty about life in and out of one of the biggest bands in the world; Rocks is ldquo;well-paced; well-plottedhellip;a mini-masterpiecerdquo; (The Boston Globe).
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Eileen HI think La Fosse does an excellent job with his origami instructions.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. not the bestBy solomonbundyAs an earlier reviewer pointed out; a lot of the "flowers" in here dont really look like flowers. I was put off by the prettier ones requiring cutting and glueing. Also; most of the flower patterns just fall apart once you put them together. The way that you secure the petals to each other is not secure; so dont think that once you make the flower it will keep together for 2 seconds (unless of course you glue them). The only plus to the kit for this was the bonus paper; which is why I gave it two stars rather than one.11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Lame excuses for flowersBy Mary KuntzThis book was written by someone who expected its readers to be morons who knew nothing about origami. Some of the patterns dont even look like flowers; and the ones that look nice mostly require cheating - cutting with scissors or using glue. There is also a huge lack in variety of leaf and calyx patterns. Dont waste your time with these two little pamphlets.