Heroes And Villains: The True Story Of The Beach Boys
by Steven Gaines
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Author: Steven GainesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-08-22
ISBN: 0306806479
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: A REAL DOWNER....
Summary: 2 Stars
If U want the dirt, about who abused who, which family member slept with which, about the lawsuits that tore them apart, about Brian's unBELIEVable drug intake, this is yr book. (Some people LIKE that kinda stuff, & I read every word of Albert Goldman's ELVIS, which had nothing BUT dirt in it, so....)But there's not enuf about THE MUSIC or where it came from, Gaines' section on the SMILE era coulda bn 3 times as long, & Gaines sums up his outlook when he says "it was all downhill" after "Good Vibrations." Not so fast -- there's still a CD or 2 worth of really good overlooked songs in their middle period (1967-1978) when the Boys couldn't seem 2 GIVE AWAY their albums....
NEway, Gaines was 2 negative 4 me -- I thot he was a ghoul. U'd B MUCH better off with David Leaf's brilliant THE BEACH BOYS AND THE CALIFORNIA MYTH (5 stars), or Byron Priess's colorful THE BEACH BOYS (4 stars). Gaines' book is just 2 Dpressing, tho it'll tell U who & what 2 blame 4 this great American band's collapse....
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