From Dan Walsh (he didn't want the book cover putting up, but it's worth reading):
Happy New Year, Gary and family. Love the mag, love the blog, and love you, man. You were right - I should have stayed independent. Punk rock and roll swindle smash-mouth and lolly-grab backfired and the book was soiled-stupid by big business bad faith and bullshit. We could have retired - instead I lined the pockets of gombeen men and snakeoil salesmen. Which is nice.
Can I post a pic? Full size image available for your blog if you like it - not a drift, but a great piece of Cuban design - ideal for this 50th anniversary of Cuban independence and self-determination.
Suerte, Dan Walsh
PS - Answer is 'no, i can't post a pic...
Is there a place for us to order DIRECTLY from Dan? I know another Dan selling a motorbike book and if he sells it direct he gets full bucks for it vs. a buck a book. I'd rather give Dan the money than anyone else.
ReplyDeleteJonathan, I'd say he isn't set up for that. You sign up with a big publisher (and few are bigger than Random House) and they do the distribution, but give you an advance and a share of the much larger sales you could ever get independently. G
ReplyDeleteHola Comnpaneros.
ReplyDeleteHiding in Spain from the Salford rain. Gonna be in Europe this year and need a custom bike to complement the G650. Something like that BA chop. Something funny as fuck yet fast enough, fairly cheap but functional. Any clues?
Also - just got hold of The Loveless Soundtrack if any of you tattooed teds want a copy of this rockabilly classic...
Suerte, Dan
Just wanted to say good luck to you lot at Sideburn and to Dan Walsh...bloody excellent book!
ReplyDeleteCan whole heartedly recommend These are the days that must happen to you. I read it on the most un rock and roll holiday ever with my kids and it were great.
ReplyDeleteTom, Lancaster
Just had Dan's book drop through the letterbox. I have only glanced through, but it feels like the first time I thumbed Sam Shepard's Motel Chronicles, the best read ever. Dan, for all the miles, trials and gettingintoprint tribulations, I salute you already.
ReplyDeleteThe road’s what counts...don’t worry about where it’s goin’."
ReplyDelete- Sam Shephard
'Buddy, keep the noise down, will ya? Man, it's four in the mornning...' shouted Sam Shephard out of his bedroom window. California scheming, summertime 2003, and for some wet-brained no-reason, Trys and I celebrated United's League Title with a couple of cheeky vimtos in The Townhouse on Windward and some giddy beer betting on hobo shopping trolley racing round the back of some Venice Beach villas.
The cops showed up. Surprisingly smiley. 'Just keep it down - you don't want Angelica Houston coming out here without her make-up on...'
Hang on - Angelica Houston. Not Jessica Lange. Which means that wasn't Sam Shephard at all. And there goes my anecdote. Cock.
Thanks for the kind words. And the recommendation. Reading Motel Chronicles today. And reading up about Sam. Shared an apartment with Charlie Mingus Jr, dated Patti Smith, married Jessica Lange. Wrote a song on the Easy Rider soundtrack, wrote a song with Bobby Dylan. And rode a bike.
Sam Shephard - 'rock and roll Jesus with a cowboy mouth.'
Suerte, Dan
Dylan & Shepard penned Brownsville Girl is a 10-minute epic of breathtaking scope and quality... if you dig all-girl harmonies and tales of dead-end Mojave dirtracks and Rolling Thunder Revue-era Dylan. I do, so it's the only song I know how to harmonica.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of RTR, Shepard's Rolling Thunder Logbook is also utter genius. Senor Che.Lynch, if there is a safe address for gifts to be sent ya, I'll post you a copy.