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Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berserker's Guide to World Tour Domination. by Zakk Wylde Foreword by Rob Zombie - Hardcover
With Eric Hendrikx, foreword by Rob Zombie In this ultimate guide to Heavy Metal, Zakk Wylde, wild prankster and guitar god of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society fame invites all who dare onto the tour bus for tales of glory, debauchery, and general mayhem. The man who turned heavy metal touring into a journey of fantastical excess shares what really goes on behind tour bus windows and backstage doors in Bringing Metal to the Children. Wylde details his survival techniques for maintaining a berzerker's life on the road, managing a band of raging Vikings, and somehow making it on stage and blowing the crowd away night after night after 25 years in the biz. Wylde tells epic stories about life on the road and uses his Black Label Society coaching techniques to instruct the reader on proper touring hygiene, pre-concert preparations, and post-show etiquette. He tells of wild nights with many of heavy metal's ultimate gods including; Rob Zombie, Eddie Van Halen, Dimebag Darrell, Alice In Chain's Mike Inez, Skid Row's Snake Sabo, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, professional wrestlers Chris Jericho, Bubba Dudley and Stone Cold Steve Austin, UFC Former Light Heavyweight Champion Forrest Griffin and of course the Godfather of heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne. Bringing Metal to the Children also features Wylde's roadmap for success in the music business, tour planning and exclusive tips for the aspiring metal musician, as well as the best methods for destroying a guitar on stage, and tongue-in-cheek plans for how to set up a shooting range on the tour bus. This is the ultimate guide to rock on the road. What you'll gain from this book: * Take the Berserker Challenge to see if you are a True Rocker * Find out how not to make it in the music business * Study Rules of the Road, like No Shitting on the Bus * Learn to explain crabs and other STDs to pharmacists in foreign countries * Brush up on your Moshpit Survival Techniques * How to avoid being ravaged by a giant horny moose
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So you've watched the movies This Is Spinal Tap and Monty Python and the Holy Grail a hundred times each, and now you desire another brilliant opus to tickle your cranial sponge in a similar fashion. Well, look no further, fellow Berzerkers! Golden god Zakk Wylde and his brother-in-Metal Eric Hendrikx are about to take you on a Black Label Crusade of World Tour Domination, sharing never-before-told stories of backstage lunacy and Metal-maniacal anecdotes for the aspiring Berzerker like you.
Why would you need to buy this book about a modern-day Viking who strums his own fiddle for a living? You'd better ask yourself one simple question: Would you rather have us come beat the money out of you, or do you want to give it up the easy and painless way?
As a twenty-five-year veteran of the Ozzy Osbourne band and Black Label Society, Zakk Wylde has managed not only to stay alive against all odds but has also survived numerous attacks on his life by members of his own band, his wife, his children, his manager, and even his dogs. Among deranged tales of onstage indecent exposure and booze-fueled destruction, Wylde continues your Metal awakening with the sacred founding myths—explaining, for instance, how the forging of Metal in Valhalla begot the Black Label Empire—and lays out the battle-tested Rules of the Road.
For the young Metal Loki, Wylde offers exclusive tips on how not to make it in the business, insights about planning your band's tour and outfitting the Black Vatican recording studio, plus more useful advice on how to set up a shooting range on a tour bus and how to survive a mosh pit. Bringing Metal to the Children will make you laugh, weep, vomit—maybe even soil yourself—and if you aspire to new heights of Metal mayhem, get on the bus and get ready for the Metal ride of your life.
In the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over. Wylde has won nearly every guitar award imaginable, graced countless magazine covers and is a major influence to a new battalion of rock guitarists. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now iconic Black Label Society in 1998. To date, Black Label Society has sold more than 3.5 million albums worldwide and continues to be a massive presence on the worldwide touring and merchandising circuits.
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0007386036
- ISBN 13 9780007386031
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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