Reviews for Guitar World Presents Pink Floyd

The average rating for Guitar World Presents Pink Floyd based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-22 00:00:00 Jhony Pierre I bought this years ago, and it has sat on my bookshelf for a long, long time. I am a big RHCP fan, and I read Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis a few years ago when it came out, and I never really felt the need to read this. However, I saw it on my shelf the other day, and thought I'd pick it up and give it a go. Firstly, I am not a huge fan of biographies, memoirs and autobiographies on the whole... so I wasn't expecting to love this. And I didn't. The writing was not great, and I kept finding spelling mistakes, which took me out of the stories. I am no great writer myself, so I am loathe to criticise this too much, but I found this a little tedious. I did enjoy reading about the band and the members, whilst I knew a fair bit about Anthony Keidis after reading his book, I didn't know much about the others. I found most of the stories fairly interesting, which kept me reading. However, the author is obviously a fan, and also likes the newer Chilli's music, whereas I prefer the older punkier, funkier stuff, so I found myself disagreeing with his opinions on the music. For the most part he is fairly impartial, but occasionally he does put across his own views and opinions on the music, which I didn't always agree with. The book does cover a little bit of the personal lives of the band as well, when they affected the bands, the drugs, new members, deaths, overdoses etc. and the musical influences. It's not as personal as Scar Tissue (obviously) and there were also little bits here and there which seem to contradict what I remember from Scar Tissue as well... that may be my bad memory as much as anything though... If you are a big fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, then maybe give it a read. But Scar tissue was better, and I am sure there are better books on the band out there.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-08 00:00:00 Patrick Day Bible black, and about the same dimensions as that holy tome, over seven hundred pages and each page split into two columns. Take me back some four decades, and this is a work I would have clung onto like some religious fanatic. Unfortunately, 'The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia' was only extracated from the burning bush of Michael Gray in 2006. The author parted the waters back in 1972 with his highly acclaimed 'Song and Dance Man-The Art of Bob Dylan', which remains for me the essential must read of this subject. However, parted waters eventually flow on, hence this encyclopedic addition, which Gray has set out in alphabetic order, not just a critic's research of Dylan's art, but a highly prized reference to twentieth century Americana.