Rockin' a Hard Place: Flats, Sharps & Other Notes from a Misfit Music Club Owner
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (503 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891885995 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With a wry and irreverent voice, Jeter describes the concert business from the bottom of its food chain, where one band's backstage demand includes one hamster dressed like Indiana Jones, one dressed like a police officer, where a landlord seeks to evict him over an ice machine, and where he is reduced to standing in the dark behind his club with a decibel meter.Singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor tells him at the grand opening: Never book anyone just because you re a fan. Thompson once called a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free. A promoter's memoir, this is the story of a naive plunge into an industry that Hunter S. After all, it's the small clubs where the likes of
Petersburg Times, John Jeter is the author of the novel The Plunder Room (St. A former editor and reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, San Antonio Express-News, and St. He has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, has appeared on Oprah!, and lives in Greenville, South Carolina. . Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne, 2009)
"Ultimately, Rockin' A Hard Place is less about the rise and quirks of the artists than it is about Jeter's journey as a fan and businessman, and his candid approach makes the book equally fascinating for music lovers and casual readers." The Huffington Post"It s a uniquely and skillfully told, ultimately inspiring look at an until-now unexplored side of the music business." The Tennessean"Music fans who adore artists who turn their body and soul into transcendent live performances will gain with this book a greater appreciation for the scrappy venue owner who gives his own body and soul to provide a stage for that transcendence to take place." Paste magazine"Rockin' a Hard Place sets out to tell the story of a club and winds up becoming a love letter to the power of music itself." Real South magazine"An essential read for music lovers Jeter fluctuates effortlessly between pages that anger us, pages that make us laugh, pages that make us cry, and pages that make our hearts and souls soar, like only the greatest songs can." Independent Publisher"A hard, sobering look at what it really takes to bring live music to the fans." --Kirkus Reviews
Great Read! Ann W. John Jeter's memoir about running the Handlebar, a music venue/club in South Carolina is a must read for anyone interested in the business. More than a batch of anecdotes about musicians, Jeter delves into the other "behind the scenes" issues of running your own business. Also an experienced journalist, he brings a voice of reason to many unreasonable events and recounts matter-of-factly some very sensitive and personal trials that occur while he and his wife run the club.. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? In the Office, Trying to Book an Act! Most behind-the-scenes accounts of intriguing industries or professions are written by journalists who embed themselves in the milieu for a few months and resurface from the underworld to report their discovered secrets to fellow mortals. (I'm old enough to remember George Plimpton turning such fun into a profitable genre). But here is rarity: the author, a successful but burned-out editor and reporter with the Chicago Sun and St. Petersburg Times, quits the frying pan of daily journalism and, with no more than a few bucks in his bank account, dives head first into the fire of the local concert biz.Every page of this gem of a memoir f. Entertaining and Fascinating John Jeter was long on passion but short on know-how when he dove head-first into the music business -- as the owner of a small club that offered live music to the folks of Greenville, SC. Little did he know: sharks and other strange creatures lurked in the music world ready to prey on a small fry like him. John's sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking, always heart-felt account of his foray into the music world as owner of The Handlebar is entertaining and fascinating reading, even for someone (like me) who is not a huge music fan. John recounts his transformation from wide-eyed neophyte to jaded veteran with crisp prose and a