cyndilouwho5's review
3.0
The book is very interesting. Vulgar, but that's the rock n' roll business.
moreadsbooks's review
1.0
For those who don't live in Denver & might not know, Barry Fey was the top concert promoter here for many years and he made Red Rocks into what it is today: hands down the best place on the planet Earth to see a concert. I'd thought that he had been one of the last hold outs against Ticketmaster, but according to this, he basically put them in business. He also did not shine a very flattering light on himself with this book. I suffered through oh so many superfluous commas ("But, for The Who, I could make . . ." "But, they were incomparable . . .", why so many But,s?) long enough to get to the part where Fey is literally shoveling dirt onto Bill Graham's grave and grinning, and then I had to give up. Yes yes, The Who was a great band & sure, the Rolling Stones were too, but do we really need another book that celebrates the dinosaur ages of rock n' roll? This reads like one of those Rolling Stone phoning-it-in Best Of issues. Are we still at the point in music where we can say that no one will ever play guitar better than the guy who died 30 years ago or the guy who hasn't made a decent contribution to music since the 80s?
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