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by Wolf Marshall A step-by-step breakdown of the guitar styles of Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Mick Taylor and Ron Wood. 17 songs are explored, including: Beast Of Burden * It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It) * Not Fade Away * Start Me Up * Tumbling Dice * and more. ... Read more

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Excellent But . . .
Another Marshall book worthy of purchase. Not for the beginner. No lyrics. You need to know the songs to get the best experience. Since the Stones catalog is so huge, it is not reasonable to expect that your favorites would be here. The books description needs to make that clear. There are 17 Stones songs, that will give an excellent look at the techniques that were used spanning their entire career. Since the seller won't tell you, I will. The songs are:Beast Of Burden, Doo Doo, Hang Fire, Happy, Harlem Shuffle, Only R&R, Little Red Rooster, Miss You, Not Fade Away, Rocks Off, Shake Your Hips, Shattered, She's So Cold, Start Me Up, Tumbling Dice, Undercover, and When The Whip Comes Down. Missing some hits you say? Well get the book for the differing styles that were used on these songs. You will enjoy.

Satisfaction guaranteed
This is a wonderful instruction book for guitarists who wish to play the Rolling Stones repertoire in the style of the originals. The presentation is clear and to the point. Even beginners will get a great deal out of these lessons. ... Read more

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John von Neumann and Marshall Stone were two giants of Twentieth Century mathematics. In honor of the 100th anniversary of their births, a mathematical celebration was organized featuring developments in fields where both men were major influences.

This volume contains articles from the AMS Special Session, Operator Algebras, Quantization and Noncommutative Geometry: A Centennial Celebration in Honor of John von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone. Papers range from expository and historical surveys to original research articles. All articles were carefully refereed and cover a broad range of mathematical topics reflecting the fundamental ideas of von Neumann and Stone.

Most contributions are expanded versions of the talks and were written exclusively for this volume. Included, among others, are articles by George W. Mackey, Nigel Higson, and Marc Rieffel. Also featured is a reprint of P.R. Halmos's The Legend of John von Neumann.

The book is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in operator algebras and applications, including noncommutative geometry. ... Read more

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Sly Stone began recording There's a Riot Goin' On in late 1970 as a follow-up to the commercially successful Stand!. In this brisk, inventive book, Miles Marshall Lewis chronicles Sly's descent into a haze of drug addiction and delirium as he rejects the successful formula - "'Dance to the Medley,' dance to the shmedly" - and creates one of the most powerful and haunting albums to inspire the hiphop movement. ... Read more

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No soul.
Here is a passage from this book: "Around the making of Riot things were as chaotic for Sly as they were for Dirk Diggler in the third act of Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights." I'm not kidding. This is typical of the entire book.

After reading Douglas Wolk's excellent "James Brown Live At The Apollo" in this same series I was really looking forward to this. What a disappointment! Hardly a page goes by where the author doesn't try to tie Sly's legacy with modern rap music, as if Sly's impact on hip hop was ever in question. The writing style is trendy and cute and the author never misses a chance to include himself in the text. There is nothing here that can't be found in cd liner notes or David Marsh's "For the Record" Sly and the Family Stone oral history (which I do recommend).

"There's a Riot Goin' On" is genius, and deserves a much better book. Miles Marshall Lewis' work here is thin, uninspiredand ultimately soulless.

A Riot in Meditation
Miles Marshall Lewis tackles the challenge of writing about Sly and the Family Stone's infamous fifth album "There's a Riot Goin' On" (1971) in a very personable way.By presenting a presumably semi-autobiographical conversation between him (nee Ploot Parsley) and his long-ago scenester father when he was fifteen about Sly and the Family Stone, we get a sense of what Sly meant to his listeners, particularly the African American community.Lewis's approach is not academically tangential, a la Greil Marcus, or one of hero-worship (like so many other rock critics), but one that is grounded in the contradictory realities that Sylvester Stewart presented to his listeners -- an optimistic musical genius whose descent into drug abuse and the whirlwind trappings of fame rendered him null and void, a gloomy reflection of the paranoid times in which he lived.

Lewis's chronology of Sly and the Family Stone is fairly boilerplate, often interrupted by references HIGHLIGHTING Afrika Bambaataa, Puff Daddy, Prince, Andre 3000 and De La Soul instead of Sly, which can get tedious.But once Lewis gets into the album, his analysis is fairly convincing.I even smiled when he redeemed one of my favorite tracks on the album, "Spaced Cowboy," which is usually dismissed as the least effective track on the album.

The only weakness of Lewis's book is that he points out the flaws of this album, but never really gets around to saying why this album is as important as it is, warts and all.Can a record be flawed and masterful at the same time?He never really tackles this question of aesthetic sensibility head on.Sure, this book doesn't shed any new light on the crazy days and nights spent making this album, but it does mostly account for it's challenging appeal after all these years.

AVOID THIS CRAPPY BOOK
Riot is one of my favorite records, and there has been very good articles about the chaoic making of this seminal LP.This is not one of them, in fact I think this one is a piece of garbage.

The writer usually uses artists from today to a-historically connect the dots between a product of the early 70s and a product of the late 90s using passages like "Unlike the self-taught Diddy's sampling production for his early hits by the likes of Mary J Blidge, Sly had...."Please tell me what sense juxtaposing these two people makes at all as at the time of "There's a Riot Goin On" Sean Puffy Combs was 2 years old, and Mary J Blidge was barely born as well.Ugh, this writer always does this too.It is always the "Badu-ness" of this, the author making some imaginary link between Riot and LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" or even the connection Sly has to Hip Hop via Freddy "Rerun" Berry on What's Happening.They must have paid this author by the word.

As a reader, I know it was a seminal record or I wouldn't have bought the stinkin' book off the internet.So talk about the record, don't just blather on about Music and Social History you don't really know then lift all your relevant information from other already published texts.

In the end, the writer lifts 80% of his informative information from the For The Record series by Dave Marsh.If you want to know about this record find the Marsh text that actually covers the entire arch of the band front to back or at least, find the Mojo article (which also draws heavily from the Marsh text, but is fairly hip about it).

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

The missing manual to Sly Stone's RIOT album?
If not manual, then perhaps liner notes.THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON (1971) is one of those paradigm-shifting albums of which there is a before and after, musically speaking.Although the book has 117 pages of text -- lyrics take up the remainder of the 132 page paperback -- Miles Marshall Lewis actually doesn't begin discussing the album's tracks until page 86.That leaves a lot of space to set up the scenario for the album, mixing musical achievements, biographical info, and even gossip into a concise yet informative background study of Sly & The Family Stone.While some of the biographical details are sensationalistic (drugs blah blah blah more drugs), hopefully they won't obscure the brilliance of the group's music.

The album itself is examined in detail, including an attempt to separate fact from fiction in regard to the personnel.For one, it turns out that all or part of the Family Stone is missing from much of the album, with Sly often playing the parts himself (or using such guests as Bobby Womack).The book gets into the details, but suffice to say that the original lineup of S&TFS came to an end at this point in time.Although there's probably more to the story that is known at this time, the author does a good job of detailing the album sessions, attempting to decipher the lyrics, and pointing out many of the ways that the album influenced pop culture.Perhaps one indication of the albums' importance regarding Sly's career is that eight of the cuts were lifted for the 2-CD THE ESSENTIAL SLY & THE FAMILY STONE.The book does have a few errors, and I disagree with some of the author's opinions (for one, I think HIGH ON YOU from 1975 is an excellent, highly-underrated album).Still, this book is recommended to anyone who wants more info about Sly and the album RIOT. ... Read more

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MUST HAVE! For ANY ROCK & ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE FAN!
This is an AWESOME RARE ROCK COLLECTIBLE! Candid Photos (And I mean, some are Very Candid-Like Nude Duane Allman in the woods, and more) of Famous Legends of Rock n' Roll, that have been covered or featured in Rolling Stone Magazine. The book is from 1973, and I must note that the Pictures are Black and White, (I love that!) which add to the mystic of the Cool Rockers. Just a few pics of the Great Pics included are: Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Bob Dylan, Keith Richard, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Michelle Phillips & China, The Rolling Stones, John & Yoko, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper, Bette Midler, Bianca Jagger, The Band, The Allman Brothers, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, Carly Simon & James Taylor, Joan Baez, Miles Davis, David Cassidy, Joe Cocker, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Paul & Linda McCartney, Taj Mahal, George Harrison,Sly Stone, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ray Charles, Johnny & June Cash, and many more Cool Ground Breaking Rock Stars!! Also includes candid photos of the groupies, and Trixie. There are an incredible set of Janis Pics, that are truly amazing. And Annie Leibovitz photography is Stunning & Unique, as always. This cool book also includes many other incredible Rolling Stone Rock Star Photos by other extremely talented photographers.Art Photographers Listing in alpha-order: Jeff Albertson, Ed Caraeff, Nevis Cameron, Michael Cooper, Henry Diltz, Michael Dobo, Barry Feinstein, David Gahr, Herb Greene, Elliott Landy, Annie Leibovitz, Jim Marshall, Jim McCrary, Stephen Paley, Ethan Russell, Bob Seidemann, Norman Seeff, Peter Simon, Guy Webster, Thomas Weir, Baron Wolman.Also-Annie Leibovitz Edited this Wonderful Book, so you have to know she picked the Best of the Best Photos. -Love the pics especially the 'photo strip style' of Janis Joplin, Duane Allman (too funny!), Keith Richard with the 'Drug Free America Sign', Janis Joplin & Grace Slick-So Cool! Bette Midler at the Pub-Magical! Shirtless David Cassidy, Rod Stewart slumped in a chair looking his ROCK STAR Self, And many more pics! They all are just COOL! This is an AWESOME ROCK COLLECTIBLE, but is hard to find. If you happen upon one, grab it! It Rocks! ... Read more

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Key West is a tropical island at the end of the Florida Keys. Quiet, quaint and completely bizarre. The authors of True Secrets of Key West Revealed! went to great lengths to research the hidden truths about this island paradise. In a lively question and answer format you will learn what restaurant has a graveyard in it, what has protected Key West from hurricanes since 1918 and about the crazy count who lived and slept with his dead "wife's" body…for seven years! Indexed for easy reference you won't find a funnier or more accurate place for information about the odder side of Key West. ... Read more

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Easy to read history
This is a very informative, and sometimes light hearted, historical account of my new most favorite place on the planet!Very concise and easy to read.A must for someone planning to go there for the first time.

A must for Key West Travelers
We enjoyed this book very much - we read it on our way down to Florida and it truly helped us understand what a special place it is!I purchased it based on other reviewers comments and we did not go wrong....

The Best Travel Book on Key West
I've lived in Key West almost 20 years and this is the book I buy for anyone staying with me. In a fun way it covers the history, politics and social fabric of this quirky community.

I suggest you buy it before you visit and make note of the places mentioned in it that you might want to see. If you visit their website you can also download a free map with addresses of everything mentioned.

Key West Secrets Revealed...sort of
Cute book, mildly amusing, worth the few minutes it takes to read. Does make me want to go back to Key West, but that's not too difficult.

Excitingly Insiteful!
This book filled me in on Key West's Culture and History in a very funny and down to earth kind of way. It answered all my questions so that I wouldn't sound like a dumb tourist when I got down there on my Honeymoon. ... Read more

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Chapters: Stephen D. Lee, Dean W. Colvard, Robert H. Foglesong, John Marshall Stone, George Robert Hightower, John Crumpton Hardy. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen Dill Lee (September 22, 1833 May 28, 1908) was an American soldier, planter, legislator, and author. He was the youngest Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War, and later served as the first president of Mississippi A ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 109 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Egypt 1947 - A young archaeologist stumbles across an unknown artifact in an ancient Egyptian temple. His initial analysis leads him to believe that it may have sinister and diabolical powers. The artifact, a stele, calls to the Lion god of war, and a recently defeated army faction has targeted the artifact as a means for redemption. He writes to his former professor and acclaimed archaeologist, Marshall Mane, for assistance and the adventure stretches from the land of the pharaohs, across the Mediterranean, to the sunny shores of Italy. Redemption is in the cards, but will it be Professor Marshall Mane who has the fortune of savoring it and preventing a third world war? Ancient artifacts and an adventure in archaeology. Need more be said? ... Read more

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Salt Lake City is the home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the beautiful Salt Lake Temple and is next to the second saltiest body of water in the world. But there is so much more to this amazing place.

Did you know that the Salt Lake Temple was once hidden from an invading army? Or where you can find the mysterious "Joseph Smith Sphinx", who built it and why? Did you know that there is a racetrack made of pure salt where most of the world's land speed records have been set? Or why there are massive granite vaults built outside Salt Lake City in Little Cottonwood Canyon?

These are just a few of the secrets carefully researched, photographed, indexed and revealed for your enjoyment.

Not your typical travel guide, "True Secrets of Salt Lake City and The Great Salt Lake Revealed!" give you the fascinating facts and stories behind the host city of the 2002 Winter Olympics. ... Read more

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Irreverent
Not so much a travel item as an irreverent chat about the downside of the city.

Salt Lake City is Strange!
I'm originally from Salt Lake and half the things in this book I didn't know about. After reading it, I made plans to visit some of them (like the sculpture in the middle of the dessert and the Joseph Smith Sphynx). I brought my family along and we all had a blast playing "tourist" seeing all these cool things right near home.

If you're planning a trip to Salt Lake City, get this book along with a traditional "where should I stay and eat" travel guide. You'll use that to book the mundane stuff and this to discover what to explore.

Just like the other True Secrets of books they have a great map on their website ([...]) with all the addresses of things found in the book.

I Never Knew This Stuff
I bought a copy of this book primarily as a challenge. I've lived in Utah all my life and thought there's nothing a guidebook can teach me. Boy was I wrong! I learned something and I had fun reading it.
Something I think that's nice too is they put pictures of a lot of things they talk about. This is a really cool book. ... Read more

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Alaska is the 49th state admitted to the Union and is a huge source of oil and gold. But do you know anything else about this rugged frontier? We at Eden Entertainment Limited, Inc. decided to produce a handy book for the visitor and local alike.

It's called "True Secrets of Alaska Revealed!"

Full of questions and answers going through hundreds of years of Alaska history. The questions are carefully researched, photographed and indexed for your reading or browsing pleasure. Below is an example:

Whose shoes are bronzed in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art?

Bill Bishop, the geologist from Richfield Oil who marked where to drill for oil. Bishops heel mark was nothing short of extraordinary. It marked the first profitable oil well ever in Alaska and was the first drilling attempt there by the Richfield Oil Company.

Had Bishop made that mark 100 yards farther away the Swanson River oil well would have been another land office statistic, the 166th nonproductive Alaskan oil well. Fortunately, Bill Bishops boots were made for drilling, and that's just what they'll do... ... Read more

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Totally Amazing Book
My wife and I drive trucks in Alaska for a living. We've read just about every book there is about our great state but never have we read one with some much fun and strange information. I can't believe after 23 years there were still things I could learn, but this book taught me a bundle. And it was fun too.

If you have anything to do with Alaska, visiting or living here, you really should have this book. Oh and the map they provide online to find some of the stuff in the book is pretty cool too. ... Read more