Adrian Smith is known to all metal audiences as guitar player for Iron Maiden, one of the biggest and greatest most legendary metal bands on this planet. But, little is known about Adrian’s second love besides music, that being angling, or fishing if you want. This book speaks about both of Adrian’s love with emphasize being more heavy on fishing and it is beautifully written and interesting, even to me who is not angler but the stories about Adrian’s fishing adventures I read with most avid interest. What is more interesting those stories about fishing adventures are interplayed with Iron Maiden’s tours and anecdotes and short stories from those tours seen through Adrian’s eyes and thoughts thus seeing the other side of only concerts, being weary travelling, some perils, food poisonings, getting to know other fellow musicians, intentionally or per pure chance. This makes this book an interesting read. I bought my book in Rockmark bookstore in Zagreb, if you are interested try to find it there.
Earth Island Books continues to amaze us with all of their book releases. This time, I read this book by Welly Artcore, Welsh punk who played in bands for decades and released more than 40 issues of his fanzine called ‘Artcore’. What I always loved to read in fanzines was tour reports and gig/festival reports. This book is one huuuge tour report divided in two parts. First part is when Welly joined legendary punk band Chaos UK on their American tour in 1994 and it was a blast to read, being a fan of this band and reading about all the road stories and succesfull and failed gigs, also about other scenes, venues and especially loved the part when Chaos UK and New Orleans sludge legends EyeHateGod toured together and it was chaotic but blast! Each gig, travel to each venue/town is divided into short chapters, so it was fun to read without too long chapters and this book did not get boring for one single second! Second part of this book, second tour if you like is about Welly’s own Welsh hardcore punk band in which he sang, being Four Letter Word and their trials and tribulations across USA and Canada with their tour in 1998. I don’t know which part of the book I liked better. Both are extremely interesting, especially Four Letter Word tour with story about now defunct legendary label BYO and Youth Brigade, 7Seconds and many other bands that shared stage with Four Letter Word on that tour.
This is a great book, so I recommend it to every one who love to read fanzines, tour diaries and punk hardcore!
Meni najdraži fanzin iz ove regije, Out Of The Darkness je izdao svoj četrnaesti broj. Ovaj fanzin, lijepog izgleda i layouta, štampan i na solidnom broju stranica je lekcija kako se radi fanzin i vječna inspiracija i meni i ovog što radim s Kraykullom, iako je moj webzine, a ne fanzin, ali krenuo sam iz te fanzinaške priče 90-ih i 2000-ih. Ovaj broj sadrži kao top priču novo poglavlje odnosno novu generaciju Beograd hardcorea, interviewe s bendovima Neven, Nabog, Majak, Chemical Tomb i Bednici. Tu je i interview s danas pokojnim pjevačem Red Alerta i meni jedan od najzanimljivijih interviewa s bubnjarem Spermbirds i osvrt na njihov nastup prije više od trideset godina. Od interviewa tu su još Fuck Yoga Records i Bait. Ono što najviše volim čitati u OOTD fanzinima kao i u drugim zinovima su tour dnevnici, u ovom broju tu su Mižerija tour diary, Smrt Razuma, Bronze i Death Side, kao i kolumne od kojih su mi najinteresantnije bile o 30 godina albuma ‘Maora..’ Atheist Rap-a viđen iz kuta benda kao i kolumna o legendarnim Vrisak Generacije. Tu su još i gig reporti i još jedan broj ovog odličnog fanzina ide kraju. Tiraž je pri kraju pa potraži jel ima još.
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