(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series lets you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab; listen to the audio to hear how the guitar should sound; then play along with the backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are included so you can sing; or simply to help you follow along. 8 songs: Lets Go Trippin * Out of Limits * Penetration * Pipeline * Surf City * Surfin U.S.A. * Walk Dont Run * The Wedge.
2014-07-30 2014-07-30File Name: B00FVU5LVW
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. a great short readBy jmalI really enjoy this book. So much so that Ive actually read it a couple times. It certainly breaks from the usual mold of 33 1/3 books but I find that quite refreshing. Its engaging and fun... but not a literary masterpiece by any means. For someone whos read most of whats been written about The Band; I find it a creative way of delivering the same information. So when Im in the mood to read about The Band; I generally reach for this book. Its a quick read that; for me at least; can transport you back to that time and place. Plus; I usually skip over a couple of particularly heavy-handed scenes.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. different but still goodBy thomgonzalesnote it is fiction based on fact and different than the other books in the 33 1/3 series. Interesting nonetheless.21 of 24 people found the following review helpful. I applaud the authors and publishers attempt to do something different in this series ....By Clare Quilty... but the fact remains: This album deserves a more fact-based approach from the 33 1/3rd series.Author John Niven takes a unique strategy in writing about the Bands classic debut; "Music From Big Pink."He writes a short novel that follows a character through key events in the history of the Band during the late 60s and in rock music in general.Anybody who loves this group is bound to have; at some point; looked at Elliott Landys photographs of the guys hanging out at their country house in Woodstock; or read Levon Helms biographical account of the time; and thought it mustve been great to have been there.The guys were making great music in the basement; spending their new money on booze and fast cars; playing pick-up gigs; hanging out with hippie chicks and frequently cranking out a tune with a post-crash Bob Dylan. Sign me up; Im down for exactly all of that.And so is Nivens fictional main character; Greg Keltner; a young dope dealer who befriends Rick Danko; Richard Manuel; Garth Hudson and Levon Helm (and -- ha ha -- gets a cool brush-off from Robbie Robertson).Through Keltner; we get an enthusiastic (almost stalkerish) witness to the bands rise and its eventual stagnation.But there are problems:Keltner has an almost "Forrest Gump"-ian ability to be in the right place at the right time. Hes there when Manuel offers up an early solo version of "I Shall Be Released" (at Robert Ryans apartment in the Dakota; no less); hes there when they read their first "Rolling Stone" rave; hes there the very day the guys pack up and move out of Big Pink (which happens to be the exact same day Andy Warhol gets shot). Granted; Niven wants to hit the high notes; but after a while Keltners timing begins to feel a bit on the nose. History dictates the storys narrative flow and so dictates where Keltner will be; which makes him seem even more synthetic.More troubling; however; are the sections were Keltners *not* dropping in on the Band; when he is in fact taking a chapter to attend his mothers funeral and go on a bender; or checking out a new film called "The Graduate" while ripped to the gills on LSD; or visiting his downtown smack connection (who just happens to be hanging out with Lou Reed and listening to an early pressing of "The Velvet Underground Nico") or spending a few pages writing a song.I realize Niven largely wants to illustrate how "Music From Big Pink" soothed the hungover heads and hearts of a lot of burnt-out hippies in 1968 and 69; but since Keltners a fiction ... do we care about his sad and extensive family history or his floundering romantic life? I didnt so much.In fact; Keltners a pretty hapless contradiction -- a heroin dealer with a heart of gold.He deals hard drugs (and; in one scene; actually gives Bob Neuwirths snarky entourage a dose he knows is too potent); but also vomits with despair when the girl of his dreams reveals shes actually in love with Richard Manuel. Fortunately for him -- but not for the reader -- he later gets her on the rebound and it just feels icky.Heres one of their encounters:"She was eating fried chicken; her perfect teeth tearing meat off the bone; her fingers getting greasy and slippery while she talked and laughed. I ordered some too. She looked like shed gotten some sun. You look like youve gotten some sun; I said."Which is to say that the writing ... could be a little tighter and a lot better. If the style and syntax were as good as the research; this would be an excellent little book for fans.But even if it were better; I still dont think this is the appropriate venue for "faction;" or the right place for some characterizations of real people that are; frankly; uniformly undercooked.I cant help it. I want actual *information* about this great album -- I want the secrets; the liner notes; the science of John Simon (who gets two brief mentions in the current context); the genuine schematics of Albert Grossmans plotting; a deeper look at the songwriting process. Yes; Ill admit it; I want the standard; boring music book info. Music books tend to be steak and eggs. And when you order steak and eggs; you dont want a cake that looks uncannily like steak and eggs."Big Pink: A Novella;" alas; is kind of that cake.