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Keyboard Presents: Classic Rock
Author(s): Ernie Rideout
- Publisher: Backbeat
- Publication Date: May 1, 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 0879309520
- ISBN-13: 9780879309527
Book Description
Keyboard Presents: Classic Rock brings out the stories behind the hits on drive-time radio, as told by the keyboard-playing artists and sidemen who created them. What was Billy Joel thinking when he wrote “Piano Man”? Who played the pounding piano on the Doobie Brothers’ “China Grove”? What was it like to back up Jim Morrison in the Doors? How did synthesizers create the sound of Genesis? It’s all here: the gear, the songs, the road stories, and the inspiration behind some of the greatest songs of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s by Chicago, Deep Purple, Tom Petty & the Hearbreakers, Blood, Sweat & Tears Steve Winwood, the Grateful Dead, and many more.
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About the Author
Ernie Rideout (San Francisco) was playing classic rock long before it was classic. As the former editor in chief of Keyboard magazine, he got to know many of the greatest rock musicians, and he brings his personal experience and musicianship to everything he writes about. He enjoys writing about music and video technology and participating in the music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area.
