Dirty Windshields: The Best and Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries
Grant Lawrence
(Author)
Description
Dirty Windshields is the long-awaited memoir from CBC host and award-winning author Grant Lawrence, baring all the salacious and hilarious details from his touring days as the lead singer of Vancouver-based rock and roll band The Smugglers. Formed when most of the members were still in high school, The Smugglers came of age during the height of the grunge explosion in the early 1990s, when Grant, working as a concert promoter, put on shows for Nirvana, Green Day and Bad Religion, among many others. In Dirty Windshields, Grant chronicles the band's booze-fueled, sweaty, broke and wayward attempts at rock and roll glory as they trekked across Canada, the United States, and eventually, Europe and the Pacific Rim. In their sixteen years of touring, the Smugglers experienced all the highs and lows the road can offer, from playing a gig at New York's legendary CBGB club to starting a riot in a Denver nightclub to having their performance tuxes stolen in Australia. Through the fights, sexual misadventures, new friendships, dance contests and mayhem, the band grew up together on the road. Told with Grant's signature self-deprecating wit, the anecdotes develop into a compelling story of the growth of an independent, do-it-yourself touring band, a community, and a musical movement. So crack open a semi-cold can of Black Label beer, stick a Smugglers tape into the cassette deck and let the good times roll.
Product Details
Price
$26.95
$25.06
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Publish Date
October 10, 2017
Pages
320
Dimensions
5.9 X 0.9 X 8.9 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781771621489
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Grant Lawrence, une personnalité connue du réseau anglais de Radio-Canada, est l'auteur de trois ouvrages pour adultes: Adventures In Solitude, The Lonely End of the Rink et Dirty Windshields. Les deux premiers lui ont mérité un prix Bill Duthie (choix des libraires) aux BC Book Prizes, faisant de Lawrence le premier auteur à être deux fois lauréat. Au cours de sa carrière, Grant Lawrence a aussi remporté un prix Écran canadien, il a été chroniqueur au North Shore News et gardien de but pour l'équipe de hockey de garage les Flying Vees. Il vit à Vancouver avec son épouse Jill Barber et leurs deux enfants.
Reviews
"Buckle up for a wild, rock 'n' roll ride that can veer sharply from hilarious to poignant to introspective.... As much as it is a diary of life on the road, Lawrence's book is also the story of the rise and fall of a band, and readers are along on the journey, sharing in the band's victories and suffering their disappointments over a decade. Readers should be prepared for puking, spitting, and urinating, and, of course, sex and drugs, but also for a great road trip."--Publishers Weekly