Ronnie: The Autobiography by Ronnie Wood
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Book Reviews of Ronnie: The Autobiography
Book Review: Seriously impaired memory. Too much substance abuse, or old age?
Summary: 1 Stars
In August 1968, The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page on lead guitar play their last ever gig at Luton Technical College in England. The band then breaks up. Page begins looking to form a new band. Manager Peter Grant agrees to continue working with Page. Teri Reid suggests Robert Plant. Plant suggests John Bonham. John Paul Jones, a colleague from Page's session days offers his services. The New Yardbirds are born, soon to change their name to Led Zeppelin. Why this history lesson? Ron Wood is so completely out of it, he actually believes that Grant forms the New Yardbirds, that Grant recruits Plant and Bonham, and that Grant then asks Ronnie to be their guitarist, which Ronnie turns down, followed by Grant "hiring" Jimmy Page. If Ronnie Wood is this completely historically inaccurate, how can we trust anything else he says? Sure it's possible that this is his only inaccuracy. But for an error, or memory lapse, or whatever it is, of this magnitude, so easily corrected, it is remarkable that it slipped passed the editor(s). Bottom line: purchase this book with caution as to it's accuracy.Book Review: horribly written
Summary: 1 Stars
First off, as anyone who reads this book most likely is, I'm a huge Stones fan. I've been w/ them through thick (Exile, Some Girls) and thin (Dirty Work, Bridges), but, if you have any desire to read this, I'd strongly recommend against it.
It's really pretty bad. It's like it never has been edited -- he's skipping around on the timeline, it's riddled w/ cliches, he's talking about things that any even remote Stones fan would know (oh, The Stones performed right after Brian Jones died in Hyde Park? Really?). Plus he's a pretty horrible person when it comes to parenting and money management. You end up having a lesser opinion of him (at least I do) as opposed to empathizing w/ him or learning some real news.
This was a huge disappointment and revealed little that I didn't already know. What it did reveal was not revelatory.
Plus, there's little concentration on the music (how it was written, how it was recorded, what's been left in the vaults).
huge, huge disapopintment. Really bad.
Book Review: Scatterbrained
Summary: 1 Stars
I love musicians' bios and have read some gems over the years but this one is a dud. It's all over the place, for one thing, and the casual way he dismisses his addictions and his devil-may-care attitude towards destroying property that doesn't belong to him is very off-putting. His lack of remorse for the pain he caused along the way disturbs me, as well. While trumpeting his love for family and his devotion to his art he also admits that he was drugged and drunk most of the time so one must question his integrity throughout. Skip this one altogether.Book Review: Boring, pointless, superficial
Summary: 1 Stars
What a disappointment. I'm a longtome Stones fan, so I already know the story and the details. But other than about two pages of interesting anecdotes about hanging with Keith in the 70's, there's nothing here-- just a quick summary of his life. An incredible disappoinment and waste of money.