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Amp'd: A Fathers Backstage Pass (Michigan State University Sesquicentennial Histories)
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by Gary Fincke and Keith R. Widder
Sales Rank: 177519
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Discount: 22 %
List Price: $19.95
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 544 pages
Published by: Michigan State University Press July 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0870137298
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0870137297
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Tom Perrotta, author of Election and Joe College
" is a wild ride, a fathers on the road account of his sons sudden rise to rock stardom."
Book Description
Most rock stars aren't looking to go on tour with their parents. But that's just what Aaron Fincke - a guitarist with the Hollywood Records' band "Breaking Benjamin" - did.
Set against a backdrop of aggressive rock, frenzied fans, moshing, stage diving, crowd surfing, security brutality, and occasional outright violence, Ampd: A Fathers Backstage Pass follows four years in the life of Gary Finckes son, Aaron, a rock- and-roll guitarist. From bands such as Breaking Benjamin (signing with Hollywood Records and releasing CDs in 2002 and 2004), Strangers With Candy (winning MTVs Ultimate Cover Band Prize in 2000), to Lifer (signing with Universal/Republic Records and releasing a national CD in 2001), Fincke gives a unique perspective to the bizarre and fantastical world of commercial rock and roll. Aarons rock life is chronicled first-hand by his father, who attends more than fifty shows, spends time with the bands before and after shows, follows them to national tour sites, and talks intimately with his son as well as the members of the bands and some of their fans and managers. Ampd emphasizes the character and life of the band members through the eyes of a widely published writer, college professor, and father who immerses himself in the high-adrenaline world of contemporary rock and roll. This is not only a page-turning first-hand account of a lifestyle about which many fantasize, but also a literary narrative that looks at the greater issues of celebrity, success, and family.
Reader Reviews
Gary Fincke, Amp'd: A Father's Backstage Pass (University of Michigan Press, 2004) Breaking Benjamin are one of the country's most exciting rock and roll bands presently working. And luckily (for us, anyway), their guitarist happens to have an award-winning poet for a father who really, really digs alternative rock. Said father turns in a quasi-biography quasi-memoir on five years of his son's rock and roll life, from Strangers with Candy (winners of MTV's Ultimate Cover Band contest) to Lifer to Breaking Benjamin. And it's great, great stuff. Fincke takes as much (if not more) pleasure in chronicling his family and friends' reaction to his love of the music as he does in chronicling the music itself, and the chronicling of the music spends as much time talking about the drudgery of day-to-day life as a "rock star" as he does about dealing with labels and being on stage. Fincke's style is very much indulgent father, and there's rarely a critical eye to be found anywhere in the book, its only weakness. But as far as the whole vastly overdone memoir genre goes, this is by far the best of the lot I've encountered. In fact, one of the best books I've read this year, in any genre. **** ½
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