| 13 May 2008 | Faber & Faber | 086547964X |
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| Hardback edition of the memoirs of Mike Edison. Jon Spencer is mentioned in the book and produced/appears on the accompanying I Have Fun Everywhere I Go album released on CD and Download.
The book details the story around Jon Spencer appearing on the Edison Rocket Train album Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! and when Russell Simins and Judah Bauer appeared with Tom Waits on the David Letterman show and a joke got seriously out of hand. The paperback edition was published on 12th May 2009 and the book launch at The Manhattan Club, Bowery Electric featured a performance by Boss Hog. Jon Spencer has appeared on the Edison Rocket Train releases This Train, Yes!, Yes!!, Yes!!! , East River Delta, I Walked With a Zombie , the I Have Fun Everywhere I Go soundtrack to the book and they both appear on the Speedball Baby track from Salvo of 24 Gunshots and the Lost Crusaders album.
Mike Edison receives a credit for ‘The Good Word’ on Damage and has worked with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “as their “Minister of Information,” writing the band’s press releases and industry propaganda, fan communiqués, and dedicated web copy.” along with the extensive sleeve notes for the 2010 deluxe releases of Year One, Extra Width + Mo’ Width, Orange + Experimental Remixes, Now I Got Worry, Controversial Negro, Acme + Acme Plus and Dirty Shirt Rock N Roll: The First Ten Years. |
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| “Edison’s book is so funny and smart and delightfully filthy that I wish I had written it myself.” — Al Goldstein, founder of Screw magazine
“This book is beyond blurbs, so let’s just get to the jack. If you have any interest in pot, pornography, punk rock, or professional wrestling, just buy this fucking thing. Much more important than food for the table or the starving children of wherever. ” – Nick Tosches “A laugh-a-minute joyride through the back alleys of pre-internet sleaze culture.” – Daniel Clowes, author of Ghost World “Half the time I spent reading this laugh-out-loud saga of depravity and mayhem, I found myself wishing I’d lived this life; the other half, I was thanking sweet heaven I didn’t. In a world where many would-be rebels (myself included) would like to consider themselves or their work ‘anti-establishment’ or ‘punk rock,’ Mike Edison hasn’t just talked the talk, he’s walked the walk. May God have mercy on his soul.” – Todd Hanson, writer and editor, The Onion “Half-intellectual, half-media whore, (and all-man), Mike Edison takes you on the last roller coaster ride through the American counter-culture. Buckle up for a fabulous read.” – Josh Alan Friedman, author of Tales of Times Square |
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ARTWORK: [unknown] Jacket Ilustrations: Rick Tulka Jacket Design: Aaron Artessa Author Photograph: Dave Allocca BARCODE: 9 780865 479647 52500 MATRIX/RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING: n/a |
