BOOK S T ORE
For the Coffee Table... Green Day:
The Ultimate Unauthorized History By Alan di Perna (hardcover) $35.00 Lauded for bringing punk rock to the masses, Green Day’s remarkable rise from teenage garage band to multiplatinum artists is documented here for the first time to coincide with the band’s 25th anniversary. Di Perna’s revealing text is accompanied by more than 300 visuals, including concert and candid off-stage photography, gig posters and handbills, 7-inch picture sleeves, rare vinyl, backstage passes, and more, all presented in a stunningly designed package.
Kalamazoo Gals By John Thomas (paperback) $21.95 The author discovers that, during World War II, Gibson employed a nearly all-female workforce to build thousands of guitars, each marked with a golden “banner.” Tracking down a dozen of the women, he time travels with them through the Great Depression and into WWII. He also wanders the abandoned Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, steps into an imaging clinic to seek radiographic evidence of the sublime quality of the Gals’ craft, and tracks the “Banner” Gibsons from the factory into the hands of their first owners. Along the way we’re led straight into the hearts of the Kalamazoo Gals.
The Fender Telecaster:
The Life & Times of the Electric Guitar that Changed the World By Dave Hunter (hardcover) $40.00 It’s the 60th Anniversary of the Fender Telecaster and this new book is the first, detailed history of one of the true icons of guitars and the music world. The book tell how the Tele became the ultimate blue-collar guitar, with the complete history from development, through the CBS years, to present day Artist Series models and other variations. The book is also chock-full of beautiful photography, period advertisements, great quotes, album covers, diagrams and more. 14 April 2013
www.musicconnection.com
The Fender Stratocaster Handbook 2nd Edition:
How to Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot and Modify Your Strat By Paul Balmer (hardcover) $27.00 Fender’s Stratocaster is THE ICON of the guitar world. It’s not just a manufacturer’s hype that this is the most popular guitar of all time. Introduced in 1954 and thus now more than 50 years old and counting, Fender’s electric Stratocaster not only revolutionized guitars but also popular music. Strats can be modified and customized in a myriad of ways. This book will explain how to do it all yourself. And like a car manual, even if you don’t do the work, it’ll be ideal for dreamers or people who want to talk the talk.
Musician’s Notebook: For Lecture and Notation
By Brian W. O’Keefe (softcover) $15.00 As a former student, the author found it challenging to keep musical notations, comments and lecture notes orderly and accessible. So he created a notebook that stores everything in one binder. Divided into four sections and three formats, it provides areas for notes and analysis as well as assignments and compositions. Complete with staff/manuscript paper, it enables note taking on the same page and has perforated edges for assignments. It is available at http:// lakeyboardproject.com.