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Title: Too Much of Nothing
Review: This book is filled with information on the LA singer song writer music scene focusing on the late sixties to the eighties. For me the scope was too broad with too many artists featured. The timelines get layered and out of synch. And there is way too much information on the music moguls to be of much interest to anybody but music business insiders. Complex relationships are reduced to the simplist: who slept with who, egos clashing, who was doing what drugs...My biggest complaint was the redundancy: the point that money, drugs and fame corrupts gets beaten to death.. There is really not enough focus on the music..saying all that, the book was chock full information and did a decent effort to capture the LA singer song writer scene of that time. That the author felt the music was that important to write this much detail is well... indulgent..Only a hand full of the artists he tracks thru time are worth the mention today...
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