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03499aam a2200397 i 4500 001 3B31722EDABE11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240305010131 008 230320s2024 nyuaf bk 001 0beng d 020 $a 9781635768992 020 $a 1635768993 035 $a (OCoLC)1373232158 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d WIM $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Selvin, Joel, $e author. 245 10 $a Drums & demons : $b the tragic journey of Jim Gordon / $c Joel Selvin. 246 3 $a Drums and demons 250 $a First Diversion Books edition. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Diversion Books, $c 2024 300 $a 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. 520 $a "The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies' biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the most shocking crime in rock history--a story of musical genius, uncontrollable madness, and the big fill. Jim Gordon was the greatest rock drummer of all-time. Just ask the world-famous musicians who played with him--John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, and many more. They knew him for his superior playing, extraordinary training and technique, preternatural intuition, perfect sense of time, and his "big fill"--the mathematically-precise clatter that exploded like detonating fireworks on his drum breaks. And as best-selling author and award-winning journalist Joel Selvin reveals, the story of Jim Gordon is the most brilliant, turbulent, and wrenching rock opera ever. This riveting narrative follows Gordon as the very chemicals in his brain that gifted him also destroyed him. His head crowded with a hellish gang of voices screaming at him, demanding obedience, Gordon descended from the absolute heights of the rock world--playing with the most famous musicians of his generation--to working with a Santa Monica dive-bar band for $30 a night. And then he committed the most shocking crime in rock history. With full cooperation from the late Gordon's family, and based on his trademark extensive, detailed research, Joel Selvin's account is at once an epic journey through an artist's monumental musical contributions, a rollicking history of rock drumming, and a terrifying downward spiral into unimaginable madness that Gordon fought a valiant but losing battle against. One of the great untold stories of rock is finally being told."--Amazon.com. 600 10 $a Gordon, Jim, $d 1945-2023. 650 0 $a Drummers (Musicians) $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Rock musicians $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Schizophrenics $v Biography. 650 6 $a Batteurs (Instrumentistes) $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 $z EÌtats-Unis $0 (CaQQLa)201-0407727 $v Biographies. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 $a Musiciens rock $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 $z EÌtats-Unis $0 (CaQQLa)201-0387198 $v Biographies. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 $a SchizophreÌnes $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 $v Biographies. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378258 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 941 $a 2 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240502011010.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240305011752.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3B31722EDABE11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search