Live at Leeds 2 - The Book

I compiled a book / scrap book of the Leeds Uni show from 2006.

This featured fan photos and every article I could track down about the gig.  It was available on lulu.com as a self published hard copy book, I had a free download on Lulu that seams to have disappeared so here's another copy.

LAL 2


2008 Articles

Q 03/08


Classic Rock 04/08

Record Collector xmas 08

2007 Articles

Drum Gods

Classic Rock 01/07


Guitar World 02/07

Goldmine 02/07 pt 1


Goldmine 02/07 pt2

Goldmine 02/07 pt 3

Uncut 04/07

Times 28/04/07

Sunday Times 29/04/07

Guitar and Bass 05/07

Manx Tails 05/07

Rhythm 05/07

Record Collector 06/07

Independent 17/04/07

Classic Rock 08/07

EQ 08/07

Classic Rock 10/07

Q 11/07

Uncut 12/07 

2006 Articles

Classic Rock 01/06

Mojo 02/06


Music Week 20/05/06

Clash 06/06

Relix 06/06

Mojo 70s Special pt 1


Mojo 70s Special pt2

Mojo 70s Special pt3
Q 07/06

Word 08/06

Observer 09/06

Bass Guitar 11/06

Q - 11/06

Rolling Stone - 11/06

Radio Times 25/11/06

Mojo 12/06

Uncut 12/06

Telegraph 14/12/06



2005 Articles

Uncut 05/05

Wall of Sound 05/05

2004 Articles

Q - Insane Moments in Rock

Uncut 02/2004

Classic Rock 06/04

Record Collector 07/04


2003 Articles



Uncut 01/03

Modern Drummer 09/03

Classic Rock 10/03

Jack 10/03


2002 Articles

Blender - Who Buying Guide

Q Life thru a Lens

Entertainment Weekly - 07/02

Mojo 08/02

Mojo 08/02 pt 2

Guitar World 09/02

Record Collector 09/02

Rhythm 11/02

Guitarist Xmas 02

2001 Articles

Classic Rock

Korg World Winter 01

Wonderous Stories 05/01

Uncut 10/01


After a long delay a few new posts

2000 Articles


Acoustic Guitar No 38 part 1

Acoustic Guitar No 38 part 2

Independent 26/02/2000

Total Guitar 08/00

Goldmine 11/08/00

Guitar One 09/00

Guitar One (pt 2) 09/00

Guitar Player 09/00

Mojo 09/00

Record Collector 10/00


Twilight of the Gods - Tony Klinger

Tony Klinger
Twilight of The Gods

John Blake Publishing
2009

ISBN 978-1-84454-766-1

I don't honestly know what to make of this book, apart from the fact that it is a miracle that The Kids Are Alright ever got made.

This is a story concerning the making of The Kids Are Alright film from one of the protaganists. Tony Klinger was initially hired to direct TKAA by Bill Curbishley, but unbeknownst to the rest of the band Pete Townshend had already agreed that Jeff Stein could make the film.

As the story unfolds, Bill Curbishley comes out of it very badly, motivated by money and self promotion, Pete comes out as a being a diva, the story regarding John and anti semetic comments - are disturbing, Keith totally out of control and Roger comes out of it probably better than the rest.

From the film side Sydney Rose manipulated to high heaven, Jeff Stein somewhat of a brat and Klinger himself "the victim" and scapegoat.

But this is a version of events, I suspect everyone involved could give a version.

That the film was subject to delays and huge cost over runs is generally accepted, but this book tries to explain why and to give some insight about why. It does make for an interesting read, and it could never be accused of fawning over the band.

It is not the easiest of books to read, and to put it mildly Klinger should have left well alone telling any of the background Who story, it just doesn't flow, and stick to telling the story he does have first hand knowledge about - The Kids film. The motivation would appear to be to clean the slate and show the problems on the film were not his fault, putting the book out 30 years after the event does appear to be a little pointless as there are few that still care about what happened.

Unfortunately in Klinger's version of events he comes across as the one who gave all the answers but was ignored. He does not seem to be able to accept any is his fault. His relationship with Stein is one hell of an ego clash and down to a pissing contest. Klinger doing things via Curbishley where as Stein had access to the band.

If you can pick up a cheap copy its probably worth a read, but I wouldn't spend a lot of money on this book. It is one of the few books I have ever read where everyone comes across as self serving egotistical bast@rds. That's show business



2009 Who Are You?

As of today there have been nearly 2300 downloads of the articles on the blog. With the 1990 articles I've just put up there are around 230 articles on the site, some of which have been downloaded about 50 times.

For my interest

Who's downloading the articles? it wouldbe nice to hear from some of you, and find some people with a similar interest.

What other material would you like to be made available? there are articles from 2000 onwards but I need to check if any are still available as back issues from the publishers, but anything else - I've got some ideas.

What have you thought of the articles? You enjoyed the read.

Theres a fair few where I am not certain of publication dates can you fill in the gaps?


I know I do not have every article ever published, has anyone got anything else they would like to donate?


If you feel shy about posting, please drop me a line to longliverock@btinternet.com it would be nice to hear from you - don't worry I won't be scamming you for any money.


dave

1999 Articles

Winter 1999 Classic Rock

1999 Q

1999 Record collector - British Rock Symphony

1999 Record Collector - Lifehouse

1999 Record Collector - Tommy

09/1999 Guitar

02/1999 Rhythm


11/1999 Sunday Times


1999 Experience Hendrix

1998 Articles

03/1998 Guitar Player

08/1998 09/1998 & 10/1998 Record Collector

09/1998 Mojo

1997 Article

I think this is from 1997

Record Collector

1996 Articles

1996 Q

1996 Bass Player

1996 Hyde Park Articles

07/1996 Mojo

08/1996 Guitar


08/1996 Guitar World


12/1996 Guitar World pt 1


12/1996 Guitar World pt 2

1995 Articles

Record Collector

05/1995 Guitar Techniques

06/1995 Guitar Shop

1994 Articles

10/1994 Guitar World

1994 Mojo

1994 Q

1994 Record Collector

1994 Vox


28/02/1994 people

04/1994 Guitarist

06/1994 Guitar World pt 1

06/1994 Guitar World pt2

08/1994 Rhythm

09/1994 Record Collector

1993 Articles

Rolling Stone

04/1993 Record Collector


05/1993 Guitar pt 1


05/1993 Guitar pt 2

05/1993 Vogue


05/1993 Record Collector


03/07/1993 The Times

1991 Feature

Not an article, rather a transcript of the Classic Album radio programme by Radio 1 in the UK - It's about Who's Next btw

Classic Album