Not Dead and Not For Sale
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Not Dead and Not For Sale

A Memoir

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eBook - ePub

Not Dead and Not For Sale

A Memoir

About this book

In the early 1990s, Stone Temple Pilots - not U2, not Nirvana, not Pearl Jam - was the hottest band in the world. STP toppled such megabands as Aerosmith and Mötley CrĂŒe on MTV and in the mainstream charts. Lead singer Scott Weiland became an iconic frontman in the tradition of Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Robert Plant. Then, when STP imploded, it was Weiland who emerged as the emblem of rock star excess, with his well-publicized drug busts and trips to rehab. Weiland has since made a series of stunning comebacks, fronting the supergroup Velvet Revolver, releasing solo work and, most recently, reuniting with Stone Temple Pilots. He still struggles with the bottle, but he has prevailed as a loving, dedicated father, as well as a business-savvy artist whose well of creativity is far from empty.

Weiland's memoir explores his early years as an altar boy, along with his first experiences with sex and drugs. Weiland discusses his complex relationships with his parents, stepfather, siblings, and the love of his life, Mary Forsberg Weiland. Readers learn the fascinating stories behind his most well-known songs, and what it was like to be there at the beginning of the grunge phenomenon - as Rolling Stone proclaimed on its cover, 'the year that punk broke'.

Not Dead & Not for Sale is a hard rock memoir to be reckoned with - a passionate, insightful and at times humorous book that reads with extraordinary narrative force.

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Information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781841959900
eBook ISBN
9780857861610
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Also by David Ritz
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Dedication
  8. PRELUDE to the PRELUDE
  9. PRELUDE
  10. A TALE of TWO FATHERS
  11. A TALE of TWO STATES
  12. “TRIPPIN’ as I’M THINKIN’ ”
  13. FORMER MOVIE STAR RONALD REAGAN is PRESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES
  14. WHAT the FUCK DOES “SOI-DISANT” MEAN?
  15. The TALE of the PORK CHOP
  16. NEW KID in TOWN
  17. ART SCHOOL GIRL
  18. HIGH as the SUN
  19. SUMMER of MARY
  20. SUMMER of MUSIC
  21. “I SEE that THESE are LIES to COME”
  22. WINTER of our DISCONTENT
  23. SUMMER KISS
  24. PURPLE WOUNDS THEY EASE the PAIN
  25. “WHAT’S REAL? WHAT’S for SALE?”
  26. “BREATHING is the HARDEST THING”
  27. “CONFUSION IS MY ILLUSION”
  28. “I’M a SELFISH PIECE of SHIT”
  29. “WANNA MAKE a ROCK RECORD?”
  30. “The PAINTED CLOWN”
  31. “FALLING FURTHER with a FLAMING HAND”
  32. POSITIVE SOUL REGENERATION
  33. NOAH
  34. The DEVIL’S in the SUN
  35. LUCY
  36. I WAS BACK OUT THERE
  37. WIND and ROCK
  38. “JOURNAL of MEMORIES, FEELING LONELY CAN’T BREATHE”
  39. TENACITY
  40. “I WANNA KNOW WHY YOU HAVE TO GO”
  41. The DAY WE LOST OUR LIVES
  42. The SMOKING GUN
  43. PARISIAN NIGHTMARE
  44. SHOES of a DARK CLOWN
  45. CLEANING JIMMY CHOOS with HOLY WATER
  46. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS