Goodbye, Guns N Roses, Art Tavana
Goodbye, Guns N Roses, Art Tavana
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Goodbye, Guns N' Roses
The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America's Most Polarizing Band

Author: Art Tavana

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/13/2021


Synopsis

A valentine and a breakup letter to one of rock's most controversial bands.

Goodbye, Guns N' Roses is a genre-rattling attempt to explain the appeal of America's most divisive rock band. While it includes uncharted history and the self-lacerating connoisseurship of a Guns N' Roses fetishist, it is not a recycled chronicle—this book is a deconstruction of myth, one that blends high and low art sketches to examine how Guns N' Roses impacted popular culture. Unlike those who have penned other treatments of what might be considered a clichéd subject, Art Tavana is not writing as a GNR patriot or former employee. His book aims to provide an untethered exploration that machetes through the jungle of propaganda camouflaging GNR's explosive appeal.

After circling the band's three-decade plundering of American culture, Goodbye, Guns N' Roses uncovers a postmodern portrait that persuades its viewer to think differently about their symbolic importance. This is not a rock bio, but a biography of taste that treats a former "hair metal" band like a decomposing masterpiece. This is the first Guns N' Roses book written for everyone; from the Sunset Strip to a hyper-digital generation's connection to "Woke Axl," it is a pop investigation that dodges no bullets.

About Art Tavana

Art Tavana is a writer who resides in the suburbs of California. He was previously a columnist at Playboy and LA Weekly, where he procured an L. A. Press Club award for a profile on reclusive guitarist Izzy Stradlin.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric

Wildly overwritten by someone not particularly capable of the task. It’s just so ridiculous and over the top and repetitive it feels like a parody of a Behind The Music script. Not great.......more

I have listened to some pretty good audiobooks over the past few months , sadly this was not one of them . Massively over done , really should have just been called goodbye Axl seing as 90 % is about him his ego his racist homophobic and all his alleged abusive behaviours. If you are looking for an......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

Marc Maron once observed in a bit about seeing The Rolling Stones af few years ago, that those who consider themselves big Stones fans have long since made their peace and learned to tolerate Mick Jagger. That notion could just as easily apply to Guns N Roses fans and Axl Rose and is what ultimatel......more

Goodreads review by J Earl

Goodbye, Guns N' Roses from Art Tavana is both interesting in many places and horribly self-indulgent throughout. Tavana tries often and fails consistently to be either humorous or insightful. On the positive side there is a good bit of information in the book. Unfortunately, one has to wade through......more