I'm In the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593762992 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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One of its kind in so many ways!!! Surferofromantica I love this book. I'd been a fan of White Zombie for quite some time, and was very sad that they broke up (since Rob Zombie never fulfilled his potential as a solo artist, in my opinion). Sean's book is fantastic, in that it's the first autobiography from any musician of any of the great heavy bands of her era (Sonic Youth, Raging Slab, Corrosion Of Conformity, Warrior Soul, eyehategod, Pantera, the Cramps, etc); it's also in a cool format, being half-text, half photo collage, and with a weird horizontal flip format! Yes, stylish/garish to the max, everything we'd expect from a goo
Art rock? Noise rock? Punk-metal? Alternative? White Zombie may have been unclassifiable, but it didn’t stop them from carving out a place for themselves in music history. From 1985 to 1996, Sean Yseult was the sole woman not only in White Zombie, but in the entire metal scene.With I’m In the Band, Yseult has created both a coffee table book and a striking visual memoir. But while most people will remember their bizarre look and macabre lyrics, what many failed to realize was that their lanky, high-octane bass player was a woman.I’m In the Band combines eleven years of tour diaries, flyers, and personal photos and ephemera to chart White Zombie’s rise from the gritty music scene of New York’s Lower East Side in the eighties to arena headliners during the nineties. The band became a multiplatinum, two-time Grammy nominee with the release of their 1992 album, La Sexorcisto. It also shares the unlikely story of a female musician who won the respect and adoration of male metal musicians and fans. Her personal memorabilia offers fans a unique vantage on the life of a mega-band during rock’s last golden ag