Music Autobiography and Memoirs

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Slash, Duff McKagan

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You should also read Adler's (as well as Adler's mom's).

Dave Mustaine
Van Halen
Marty Friedman

The Dirt by Motley Crue is an entertaining read.
There's also an oral history of hair metal - Nothin But a Good Time - that's solid. Lot of good stories about that era - like how Lita Ford saw some utility line worker with ripped jeans and she bought them off of him for $50.

I am Ozzy. It's laugh out loud funny

I just bought Adler’s book.

How was his mom’s book? I feel that’s kind of strange that she wrote one.

I loved all the stories Slash had about Adler in his book. He said Adler would practice his drumming under a street light at a dead end street. Also Slash said at 13 Adler only wanted to do two things in life, play rock n roll and bang chicks.

Marilyn Manson's was fun

Orr


"Benjamin Orr was the co-founder, co-lead singer, and bassist for the platinum-selling rock band The Cars. Often considered the band’s heartthrob, Orr possessed an incredible voice, diverse musical talent and rare stage presence, all balanced by an enigmatic personality and a relentless determination to reach rock stardom.

Selling over 30 million albums worldwide with fifteen Billboard Top 40 hits, The Cars certainly achieved success. Within a decade of the debut album, though, Orr found himself without a band and adrift. Veteran music journalist, Joe Milliken, draws together interviews with over 120 family members, friends, bandmates and music associates from Orr's life, as well as many unpublished and never-before-seen photos from private collections, to reveal an intimate portrait of one of classic rock’s greatest talents. From Orr’s first live performances as a house-band musician for the Cleveland TV show UpBeat, through his creation of The Cars with Ric Ocasek, to Orr’s eventual rebirth with the supergroup Big People, this definitive account of Orr’s life is a roller coaster ride that sheds new light on the history of The Cars.

Orr is no longer able to rock with The Cars, but the music he made with them continues to attract new generations of fans. Coinciding with the band’s 2018 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, this first-ever biography of Benjamin Orr immortalizes his legacy as a deeply kind-hearted and exceptionally well-rounded musician and vocalist who would stop at nothing to live his rock and roll dream."

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The Hollywood Brats were a British glam rock and protopunk band in the early 1970s. They found little commercial success at the time, and split up in 1974, but are regarded as influential on the later punk rock scene

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The band became noted in London for their flamboyant make-up and clothes, and aggressive musical approach, influenced by, and in many ways parallel to, the New York Dolls... The group was championed by Keith Moon, who said they were the best band he had ever seen,

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This is by far the funniest music book I have ever read (written by the band's lead singer)

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Rules for a Rock ’N’ Roll Band
~ The Template ~

1, Four or five members maximum. No sax, no horn section, no keyboards, no Moog-synthesizer boffin, no backup chanteuses, no nothing. Two guitars, a bass, drums, and singer, that’s it. Think the Beatles, Kinks, and Who for four, Stones for five.

2. The singer sings. That’s it. No hanging a guitar around his neck mid-show and strumming a few cowboy chords to show he can play, no sitting at the piano for a poignant ballad or two, and definitely no tambourine bashing. And for Christ’s sake, no standing on one leg and sucking and wheezing into a flute like that hobo in Jethro Tull. At a pinch a shake of maracas but just for a portion of a song then toss them aside. If a singer can’t think what to do with himself during a bandmate’s solo he should consider a career as a bank teller.

3. Great hair, straight hair, is a must and is nonnegotiable. If a member starts going thin on top put an ad in the Melody Maker immediately. If he has too tight a natural curl or, saints preserve, a perm, well, shame on you for hiring him in the first place. Be firm about this; a hat won’t work.

4. No facial hair. Girls, or at least girls you’d ever deign to paw, do not swoon over the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia is no sane, recently showered girl’s idea of a pinup.

5. No girlfriends. They are cancerous for the esprit de corps. They lower the band’s collective sexual currency and can twist a measly bass player’s brain until he thinks he should get a triple-album solo deal and headline Vegas.
Two words: Yoko and Ono.

I still believe in these rules but as fate would have it we broke most of them.

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He is. I think he does not get enough credit for what he has done. He should probably get half the credit for all the success they all had. He also was the glue that kept the band together. Stan Lynch (drummer) wanted out very early and a lot of the albums would have been different without him.

Mike talked about the success of Don Henley's Boys of Summer. Mike said Don came to him after he wrote the lyrics and told Mike that he had just written the best lyrics he has ever written to Mikes music.

Stan Lynch (original drummer) teased Mike after Boys of Summer became so successful. Mike would play something new for the band and Stan would tell him it sounds too much like Don Henley. His book was great.

Goodness. I just bought his book.

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when Ozzy fed that cake to the traveling priest that was laced with Afghan Hash

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When Ozzy "sucked his clack".