No Encore!, Drew Fortune
No Encore!, Drew Fortune
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No Encore!
Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing Gigs

Author: Drew Fortune

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2019


Synopsis

"They hated us and started throwing cups, bottles, change, chairs, and anything that wasn't nailed down." —DEAN WEEN

This hilarious, sometimes horrifying, collection spans four decades and chronicles the craziest, druggiest, and most embarrassing concert moments in music history—direct from the artists who survived them.

"In the midst of my insanity, I thought it would be a very romantic gesture to go into Fiona Apple's dressing room and write a message on her wall in my own blood." —DAVE NAVARRO

From wardrobe malfunctions to equipment failures, from bad decisions to even worse choices, this is a riveting look into what happens when things go wrong onstage and off.

No Encore! is an unflinchingly honest account of the shows that tested the dedication to a dream—from Alice Cooper's python having a violent, gastric malfunction on stage to Lou Barlow's disastrous attempt to sober up at Glastonbury, from Shirley Manson's desperate search for a bathroom to the extraordinary effort made to awaken Al Jourgenson as Ministry was taking the stage. As Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote, "Buy the ticket, take the ride."

About Drew Fortune

Drew Fortune, a pop-culture journalist and screenwriter, has been actively publishing for the past ten years. He is a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Vulture, and his writings on music, film, and television have been published in Cosmopolitan, Playboy, SPIN, Billboard, the A.V. Club, Stereogum, and elsewhere. His favorite bands are Ween, Superchunk, and the Replacements. He loves fly fishing and loitering in record stores. His favorite bands are Ween, Superchunk, and the Replacements. He loves fly fishing and loitering in record stores.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Devin

The reason I awarded this book 5 stars isn’t because it is a great work of literature. Rather, it’s the most lighthearted, maximally entertaining book I’ve read in some time. With most musician’s accounts being no longer than 4 or 5 pages, this book provides many bite sized accounts of madness. In f......more

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Goodreads review by Michael

Moderately entertaining. Not that many great stories considering that there are so many tales from musicians floating around. Too much of the book is spent on artists that most people don't care about anyways. I really lost interest in it well before I finished the book. It could have been so much b......more

Goodreads review by Sara

An entertaining read. Horrible moments are going to happen onstage. Embarrassing gigs haunt a performer's emotional psyche (and sometimes more) for the rest of their career, and probably the audience too. I enjoyed hearing the stories relayed with the performer's voice intact, which allowed the char......more

Goodreads review by David

Drew Fortune did a fantastic job collecting, compiling and piecing together hilarious and cringe-worthy concert tales from an array of musicians. I especially liked the range of musicians here - rock, hip hop, pop, electronic, household names, touring band mates... Some of the contributions here see......more