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Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses: The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America’s Most Polarizing Band Kindle Edition
Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses transports the reader into a mind-altering trip through the colors, scandals, nihilism, and mythology that make Guns N’ Roses so much more than another “hair metal” band.
A valentine and a breakup letter to one of rock’s most controversial bands.
Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses is a genre-rattling attempt to explain the appeal of America’s most divisive rock band. While it includes uncharted history and the self-lacerating connoisseurship of a Guns N’ Roses fetishist, it is not a recycled chronicle — this book is a deconstruction of myth, one that blends high and low art sketches to examine how Guns N’ Roses impacted popular culture. Unlike those who have penned other treatments of what might be considered a clichéd subject, Art Tavana is not writing as a GNR patriot or former employee. His book aims to provide an untethered exploration that machetes through the jungle of propaganda camouflaging GNR’s explosive appeal.
After circling the band’s three-decade plundering of American culture, Goodbye, Guns N’ Roses uncovers a postmodern portrait that persuades its viewer to think differently about their symbolic importance. This is not a rock bio but a biography of taste that treats a former “hair metal” band like a decomposing masterpiece. This is the first Guns N’ Roses book written for everyone; from the Sunset Strip to a hyper-digital generation’s connection to “Woke Axl,” it is a pop investigation that dodges no bullets.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publishera misFit book
- Publication dateApril 13, 2021
- File size4134 KB
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Art Tavana is a writer who resides in the suburbs of California. He was previously a columnist at Playboy and LA Weekly, where he procured an L. A. Press Club award for a profile on reclusive guitarist Izzy Stradlin.
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- ASIN : B08Q2GK3VV
- Publisher : a misFit book (April 13, 2021)
- Publication date : April 13, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 4134 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 254 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,832,933 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,929 in Rock Music (Kindle Store)
- #2,010 in Music History & Criticism (Kindle Store)
- #3,102 in Popular Culture
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Tavana obviously knows his facts when it comes to GN’R. For the die-hards like me, there are some cool tidbits about the various lost “eras” of this band (1994-2000, 2003-2005) and interesting perspectives on the band since Slash and Duff rejoined in 2016. Unfortunately, all of this gets lost among tawdry, flowery prose which reads like something out of a first year college essay or a young songwriter’s attempt to sound serious. I can’t say I do not recommend this book for die hard fans, but man was it a chore to read.
This book is part Goodbye Norma Jean and part Farewell to Arms.
Since my almost 30 year GNR fandom has led to an extraordinary friendship with the woman who said to Axl Rose , Don’t Cry there’s a Heaven above you, words which has literally saved my life on several occasions. I think Art Tavana is a good writer in search of a great story. I think he would be much better suited to writing fiction so I am going to leave this book right here 2 blocks away from Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home for another literary pilgrim to find. Because I will never say goodbye to Axl Rose and GunsnRoses.
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2021
This book is part Goodbye Norma Jean and part Farewell to Arms.
Since my almost 30 year GNR fandom has led to an extraordinary friendship with the woman who said to Axl Rose , Don’t Cry there’s a Heaven above you, words which has literally saved my life on several occasions. I think Art Tavana is a good writer in search of a great story. I think he would be much better suited to writing fiction so I am going to leave this book right here 2 blocks away from Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home for another literary pilgrim to find. Because I will never say goodbye to Axl Rose and GunsnRoses.