tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post1132454009597762242..comments2024-03-28T14:41:03.787-04:00Comments on PowerPop: Nick Tosches 1949 - 2019NYMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-51790468257076049732019-10-25T14:07:05.202-04:002019-10-25T14:07:05.202-04:00I haven't read those two, but "Hellfire&q...I haven't read those two, but "Hellfire", "Country", and "Save The Last Dance For Satan" are excellent.M_Sharpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-83367623975241750472019-10-24T09:47:12.355-04:002019-10-24T09:47:12.355-04:00I got only got into Meltzer because in the early d...I got only got into Meltzer because in the early days of the net there was a web rock magazine (Sonic Net? not sure of the name) in which he had a column, Me and the Night and the Music. The mag was all alternative rock, so of course Meltzer wrote about classical music, which was a new obsession for him at the time. the writing was pretty fleshed out for him. Tried to find an example of it on the Wayback Machine but failed. I was probably disposed to like him since he had the Minutemen and BOC associations. Through him, I got to Tosches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-53692154336090070792019-10-23T18:48:11.843-04:002019-10-23T18:48:11.843-04:00I loved the Dino bookI loved the Dino bookpetenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-60800438622048976372019-10-23T09:43:43.930-04:002019-10-23T09:43:43.930-04:00Lester, obviously, was a god to me, but I never go...Lester, obviously, was a god to me, but I never got Meltzer as a writer.<br /><br />I have a funny story about him involving a press junket to see Alice Cooper in 1973 we were both on, however. Get me drunk someday and I'll tell it to you. :-)steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-76828741880952972422019-10-23T09:18:35.133-04:002019-10-23T09:18:35.133-04:00I tend to see Tosches, Meltzer and Bangs as a scho...I tend to see Tosches, Meltzer and Bangs as a school of writing, with Tosches as the most literary, but all of them capable of dazzling you. Haven't read them in a long time, cos they really loved to WALLOW.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-52803351518534022862019-10-23T09:09:58.564-04:002019-10-23T09:09:58.564-04:00Brit film critic David Thompson described the Dean...Brit film critic David Thompson described the Dean Martin book as "inspired in its evocation of the drift, the haze, and at last, the numbing futility of being Dino, or being alive."steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.com