Rock and Roll Busker - Softcover

Graham Forbes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857160184 ISBN 13: 9780857160188

Publisher: McNidder & Grace, 2013

Synopsis

A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you haven't rehearsed with whomever you happen to be standing onstage. Often, you have never played it before. Sometimes you might not have even heard the song before. When there is a big crowd in front of you, listening to every note, that's when the fun starts... Forbes has written an insightful, yet passionate and humorous book.

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Review:

It's the foot soldiers of Rock 'n' Roll that have always interested me. Those who keep at it whatever knocks they get along the way. Those who play not to make money, but to make music. Graham tells their story - his own story. --Tom McGuinness (Manfred Mann, McGuiness Flint, The Blues Band)

Terrific book about what it is really like to be a musician. Very, very funny and no pish. --Derek Forbes (Simple Minds, Big Country)

Highly original and very funny. Graham is fast becoming my favourite author. --Mo Foster (Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Gerry Rafferty)

About the Author:

Graham Forbes is an author and musician playing with anyone who calls, from the Incredible String Band to X Factor winner Michelle McManus. A consummate entertainer, 'Rock and Roll Busker' is the third book in his hilarious Rock And Roll Trilogy and is for all those working 'musos' who, like himself, never quite made it to the big arenas, but love the life so much they are still gigging in bars and clubs all over the world. He lives half the year in Glasgow, where everyone plays louder than him, and half the year in Florida, where everyone plays quieter.

About this edition

• Publisher: McNidder & Grace
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857160184
• ISBN 13: 9780857160188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304