| Druggy Stardust & The Empress of Clubland Contributor(s): Bomb, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 191070587X ISBN-13: 9781910705872 Publisher: New Haven Publishing Ltd OUR PRICE: $24.23 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 302 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The second book release in rocker Adam Bomb's arsenal is an illumination through the dark New York City club scene during it's decadent rock 'n roll heyday. Picking up where his first book, 911 Is Disconnected... So This Is Rock & Roll' left off, Druggy Stardust is a cautionary tale describing the ins and outs of the rock music biz, and the ups and downs of falling in love and starting a family in the cocaine glitter palace known as Limelight. The dichotomy of a love story in a musical world fueled by sex and chemicals, this book is Adam's secret diary. It chronicles the behind-the-scene stories of Adam's work with such musical luminaries as Johnny Thunders, John Paul Jones, Chuck Berry, Steve Stevens & Billy Idol, record producer Jack Douglas (John Lennon, Aerosmith), Hanoi Rocks and Michael Monroe, touring with Motorhead, Ronnie James Dio, and a long list of other music legends and Hollywood celebrities. It is a star-studded romp through the parties and hotspots of the elite New York City club scene and the gritty London rock discos of the late 80s and 90s. Druggy Stardust is an apologue of the louche, with incredible photos by some of rock and roll's most renowned photographers like Mick Rock, Bob Gruen, Mark Weiss, and Limelight in-house photographer Miss Chickie. Insightful and entertaining, this true-life story is a peek behind the velvet rope and the dressing room doors when rock stars ruled the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bomb, Adam: - "Adam Bomb (Adam Brenner to his lawyers) was born sometime in 1963 and grew up in Seattle, where, in his early teenage years, he played guitar in a metal cover band called Tyrant. The band featured an equally peach-fuzzed Geoff Tate, future Queensryche front-falsetto, on proto-prog metal vox. Two years later, he joined legendary Seattle hard-rockers TKO. Although Kjarten Kristofferson (later of the Bang Gang) is credited on the album cover, Mr Bomb was actually the guitar player for TKO's finest album, 1984's In Your Face, which was actually recorded in '81, but shelved for years. Shelved albums have been a mainstay of Bomb's career. Rumour has it that Adam Bomb took the TKO gig after his first audition, with Kiss, fell through. He was 16 in '81, by the way. In 1982, Bomb quit TKO and moved to LA, to become a solo artist. He shared a room with a pre-GNR Izzy Stradlin, who lived next door to Black N' Blue axeman Tommy Thayer, who gave 'em the "Bomb" part of his name, 'cuz 'Adam Brenner' wasn't gonna cut it in a town full of, well, Izzys and Slash's and Dukey Flyswatters. Adam briefly joined Steeler, replacing Yngwie Malmsteen after he split for that hare-brained Viking solo project of his, but mostly, he spent the next year and half recording songs for the first Adam Bomb record. Adam Bomb signed to Geffen in 1984 (admittedly, not a hard thing for a metal band to do in 1984, but still) and released Fatal Attraction a year later. Word has it that Adam Bomb himself actually played everything on the album, but the back cover credits Billy Idol's bass player Phil Feit, ex-Riot man Sandy Slavin on drums, and ex-Aerosmith fill-in Jimmy Crespo on guitar. There's about 500 other people credited on this 'un too, including AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams, who added a little extra chug on I Want My Heavy Metal. In 1988, Adam Bomb-the-band still had no new record out. Adam-the-man, however, was having a hell of a year. He jammed with Chuck Berry on New Year's Eve. He did a solo three week tour of the UK, using ex-Babysitters drunk-glam legends The Last of the Teenage Idols as his backing band. Then he went to Stockholm and played guitar in the Johnny Thunders band for two months. '88 was a good year for me too, man, but not that good. In '89, Adam wrote and recorded songs with Steve Stevens, but you know how it goes with that cat. A year later, Pure Sex was finally released. However, it was on a French label, Musidisc, which was really no help to you and I. Meanwhile, the studio in New York where Bomb and Stevens recorded their new flash metal tracks went bankrupt, and their master tapes went missing. Or so the story goes. A year later, Adam emerged in the UK, where he formed the Last Bandits, with Dogs D'Amour bassist Steve James. They toured England throughout 1991. Then Little Steven asked him join his band. Then Axl told him Izzy almost asked him to join GNR in'84. Then somebody held his master tapes from the Stevens sessions for ransom. Then Adam played a few gigs with Mike Monroe. And so on. It's the craziest goddamn rock'n'roll story you ever heard, and almost all of it is true. And while Adam has mostly stayed a solo act in the past couple decades, he has definitely not kept quiet. In the late 90's, he formed, recorded and toured with the furious Get Animal band. In 1999, Adam Bomb (the man) released a 9/11 themed album called Third World Roar and toured England with Swede sleaze-rock sensations the Diamond Dogs. In 2012, Adam Bomb-the-band released the aptly named Rock On Rock Hard Rock Animal, and just last year he toured the world in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Fatal Attraction. According to his online bio, Adam's goals are to 'Promote the electric guitar and keep rock'n'roll alive." And I believe him, brother. That part I know is true. - SLEAZEGRINDER" |