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 enlarge | Author: Dean Wareham
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 29488
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594201552
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42166092
EAN: 9781594201554
ASIN: 1594201552
Publication Date: March 13, 2008
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Reality Rock and Roll June 3, 2008
Am a late Luna fan who only first heard them in 2005 on WFUV. This is a great read that was a real insight into a great band most of us never heard of. Wareham takes you on a journey of starting a band with freinds (for enjoyments sake) all the way through Luna's last show in NYC 2005. You also get all the wear and tear of how hard it is to keep a good thing going. On the down side, I can't say I have much hope for good music reaching the audience who craves it - mostly because of how messed up the music business is. On the up side, you'll begin to appreciate that good music is out there but just a little harder to find. Read the book, then download the songs, then read the book again. This book and Luna's music is a real diamond in the rough.
 Lonely on a Friday May 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In his beautifully written, yet understated book, Dean Wareham shares with us his disdain for being asked, "Why aren't you more famous?". It's a fair inquiry and probably for most questioners even meant as a compliment. It is one I've have admittedly wondered myself and I think Dean has provided a compelling background to the vagaries and fickleness of the music industry that relegates a man with indisputable talent to relative obscurity. However this is what gives his memoir its distinction over other sex, drugs, and rock & roll tomes. Dean and his band mates suffer through the indignities of touring, recording, and internal discord without the trappings and success of the "typical" rock lifestyle. This is eminently more interesting than anything you might read about the latest celebrity imploding from their excesses.
Dean has steadfastly held to his indie cred and while his lifestyle may have suffered for it, his art certainly hasn't. Thank you for Black Postcards - both of them.
 standing in line eating a twinky .. + another .. May 9, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
this book had been reviewed by liz phair in the ny times - i knew her as a musician but i was stunned by her brillant writing.
it is that short review by phair that was interesting to me, not the pedestrian small wordage of warehams 'black postcards'. the only engaging page or two is when he quotes a letter written from one of his struggling old friends who hit rock bottom / badly; the sole spot of radiance in a very, very painfully dull account of warehams trails + tribulations ..
well written & funny May 8, 2008
I loved this book. I would have loved it even more though as an audiobook with a soundtrack and a commentary by Britta and the other band members.
 Please, stop whining!!! May 8, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dean Wareham made some pretty good music through the years, both with Galaxie 500 and with Luna, and continues to produce listenable, if unremarkable music with his wife Britta. You would think that he has a lot of interesting stories to tell, and it turns out he does... but you have to dig through the self-absorption and self-pity to find the stories. Halfwway through the book you start to realize that this is a man who either has a steel-trap memory, or he has kept copious notes on his every move for every day. I guess we're reading his diary, and if that's the case - it's no wonder that his bands all break up in acrimony. As a musician myself, I know how hard it is to be in a band, but this guy gives Dysfunctional a new meaning. I was hoping for some more insight into the music industry, and there are nuggets here and there. Breaking through the miasma of unwarranted hubris becomes tedious and unrewarding. Such a pity.
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