shadoe42
71 posts
Nov 22, 2011
8:20 AM
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So I was finally able to get this thru the Kindle store. YAY! and I must say it is indeed an enjoyable read. If you have not read this book i would highly recommend it and its is only 10 bucks if you buy the electronic Kindle copy. and you can get Kindle readers for both the pc and all smartphones.
Now hopefully they will get Journeyman's Road available the same way. I am such a tech head :) can't recall the last time I read a print book
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chromaticblues
1065 posts
Nov 22, 2011
8:32 AM
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I also liked it very much. I would have liked it more if it didn't jump back and forth time line wise. I was also hoping for it to be a little more in depth about Mr. Satan and Adam's personal relationship with him. The few times I met Mr. Satan he seemed to be very interesting. The type of person you seldom meet.
Great book! I feel like it left me wanting more somehow?
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shadoe42
73 posts
Nov 23, 2011
8:35 AM
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One thing the book has gotten me thinking about is the 'double' life a lot of musicians lead. For example one could say (to put it in comic book terms) Adam is a mild mannered educator. By night the wicked harp blower. Or rather blower of wicked harp :) Reading the book it seems that the two worlds did not often intersect.
In a similar fashion I spend my days working an IT development/support job for the local 911. Weekends I am on stage in a completely different world. Also I actually live 4 hours from the city my band is based out of so I am even farther removed on most days from that world of music where people know me.
On most days I count this as a blessing. But it is an interesting concept to think about. Because typically the two worlds do not care about each other. Nobody in the music world for example really cares beyond a passing 'that's nifty' that I work at 911. And most people in the IT world look at me like I am nuts when they find out I am a musician and then ever further nuts when they discover I am in a band that dresses like pirates :)
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kudzurunner
2837 posts
Nov 23, 2011
1:54 PM
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For the entire period covered by the book--i.e., 1985 through 1991--I was NOT a mild-mannered educator. I was neither a grad student nor professor. I was an unemployed musician scrounging a living. I had no intention of ever setting foot on a college campus. My nocturnal identity was my daylight identity. True: I spent a fair bit of time at my desk, struggling with a first novel about an American busker in Europe. But no: I was not an educator--except for the blues harmonica classes I taught at the Guitar Study Center. I had affairs with several female employees of the GSC. (I left those out of the memoir.) I was not mild mannered.
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oldwailer
1776 posts
Nov 23, 2011
3:10 PM
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Funny--I listen to your CD almost every day at the gym (on my ipod) and, just judging by the music, I would have never guessed that you have ever been mild mannered. More like an ass-kicker by day and ass stomper by night--but that's just me. . .
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shadoe42
74 posts
Nov 24, 2011
8:31 AM
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Adam - Honestly i realize that but at the same time through out the book it seems that you had a bit of a double life going :) Which is really all I was commenting on.. 'mild mannered' was again as i said a phrase borrowed from the comics. You know by day he is a mild mannered reporter..but when danger calls..BANG...SUPERMAN BABY!!!
Wasn't actually saying you were mild mannered :) It was a geek analogy :) And apparently a bad one :)
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Andrew
1485 posts
Nov 24, 2011
11:14 AM
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"I am in a band that dresses like pirates"
OMG, are Adam and the Ants still together?
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shadoe42
77 posts
Nov 24, 2011
11:52 AM
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wrong pirates :)
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