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Adventures Of A Waterboy Remastered
Adventures Of A Waterboy Remastered
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Description: " I was six or seven when I noticed the music in my head. It was there in the classroom on the football pitch at the dinner table when I went to sleep and when I woke up. And it's continued ever since." As a teenager in Scotland Mike Scott played in punk and garage bands hitchhiked to see Bob Dylan play and scammed his way into Patti Smith's inner circle during an eye - opening weekend in London. In 1983 he formed The Waterboys with an ever - rotating cast of collaborators including The Fellow Who Fiddles (Steve Wickham) and The Human Saxophone (Anthony Thistlethwaite) and soon found international success with the "big music" sound of songs like Don t Bang The Drum and The Whole Of The Moon. In 1986 Scott travelled to Ireland to spend a week with Wickham and ended up staying for six years. During that time he developed a deep interest in roots and folk music resulting in The Waterboys best - selling album Fisherman's Blues. After scaling the heights of success and moving the band to New York he followed another fascination and went to live in the Findhorn spiritual community in Northern Scotland. Adventures Of A Waterboy is an evocative memoir by one of the great British songwriters of the past four decades. It is an honest and revealing work by turns heartfelt and funny that tells the story of a cocky Scot with a sound in his head and his lifelong efforts to reproduce that sound - a story that runs from teenage fandom to international stardom from Scotland to New York City and beyond. This remastered edition adds ten "extra scenes" written and handpicked by Scott plus a selection of rare images not included in the original book.
Title: Adventures Of A Waterboy Remastered
Author(s): Scott Mike
Publisher: Outline Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781911036357
Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Date: 11/7/2017
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups
Description: " I was six or seven when I noticed the music in my head. It was there in the classroom on the football pitch at the dinner table when I went to sleep and when I woke up. And it's continued ever since." As a teenager in Scotland Mike Scott played in punk and garage bands hitchhiked to see Bob Dylan play and scammed his way into Patti Smith's inner circle during an eye - opening weekend in London. In 1983 he formed The Waterboys with an ever - rotating cast of collaborators including The Fellow Who Fiddles (Steve Wickham) and The Human Saxophone (Anthony Thistlethwaite) and soon found international success with the "big music" sound of songs like Don t Bang The Drum and The Whole Of The Moon. In 1986 Scott travelled to Ireland to spend a week with Wickham and ended up staying for six years. During that time he developed a deep interest in roots and folk music resulting in The Waterboys best - selling album Fisherman's Blues. After scaling the heights of success and moving the band to New York he followed another fascination and went to live in the Findhorn spiritual community in Northern Scotland. Adventures Of A Waterboy is an evocative memoir by one of the great British songwriters of the past four decades. It is an honest and revealing work by turns heartfelt and funny that tells the story of a cocky Scot with a sound in his head and his lifelong efforts to reproduce that sound - a story that runs from teenage fandom to international stardom from Scotland to New York City and beyond. This remastered edition adds ten "extra scenes" written and handpicked by Scott plus a selection of rare images not included in the original book.
Title: Adventures Of A Waterboy Remastered
Author(s): Scott Mike
Publisher: Outline Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781911036357
Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Date: 11/7/2017
Category: Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups