Books I Would Like to Read (Updated)

Hi,

Klaus Schulze - By Greg Allen
Exhaustive listing all the way to 2007 and is as complete as you will ever find, and reviews every single album. Not sure that I can review that fairly and as detailed as this work was. Trying to write this one. The words for writing this are not coming. The whole book is an album review, more than anything else.

Got a Revolution - The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
Strong record of the SF scene, just like the Garcia book, as it pretty much shows how the whole thing started and came to fruition, and one of the groups that was at the forefront of it all. Strong read, although many folks will not like the many moments that Grace Slick was out of control (so it seems), but in the end, the point was made, and the group maintained and survived. Also a great history of Hot Tuna. Tough book to review, as it is not really a "positive" look at the whole thing, and it has a tendency to say that Grace was just a bitch!

Nick Mason
Finished ... working on a review. Not sure I can review this as heavy as the book is, btw! 

Not planning on reviewing this ... for me it has nothing new, really, since I was around since 1972 and a lot of this I had seen, and catching it on a book, creates an inner feeling that ... something is wrong here. There are, a couple of comments Nick makes that seem to explain a thing or two, but in the end, they still will not explain the making of WYWH and putting it out before they did ANIMALS. The two rockers were excellent and vibrant. The material that became WYWH was nice, but not half as well put together and interesting as what they did, and then made fun of the record company by having someone sign the hands of a devil (man on fire), and having a song putting down the very machine that paid them millions. AND after that a very cynical song sung by Roy Harper, that should have been on a Roy Harper album, not a PF album!

Too many ... missing too much in between ... and I think that sometimes things were done just because people could see the direction and the thread.

Tangerine Dream
We finally have a deadline for Edgar Froese's book. On his birthdate next year. It's review should be fun! A deadline that has been delayed forever, but the book is now out as of 09/29/2017, but is subject to the turtle delivery system, and it took almost 4 weeks for them to make it to the country next to them, which means that it will be another 4 to 5, maybe 6 months before it gets here to the American West Coast ... does the West Coast have ANY folks that love TD? I doubt it, sometimes!

A few other things:
Still trying to get Daevid Allen's CD/DVD's of him talking about his early days, but they seem to be impossible to get and one of them was on sale for over $200 ... way over my head and budget! Mine is the used book variety for the most part, or I can't get anything!

Kinda running dry of reads lately, but sadly some of that German stuff is not getting translated, so I'm out of luck on those German books, Italian books and (probably) Japanese books. A compiled book with the stuff from the videos from YMO and Sadistic Mika Band, would be an interesting thing. Ryuichi, seems to have a lot of material and videos on the tube and for all intents and purposes these make a nice bunch of chapters, and my favorites are actually his solo piano stuff, and that is yet another thing that is more than just the progressive/experimental material that he was doing.