I Gotta Rock by Cowboy Mach Bell

I Gotta Rock by Cowboy Mach Bell

Twenty Years of Tales 1965-1985

Aerosmith's Joe Perry put it this way, The new singer, Cowboy Mach Bell, was a rock'n'roll guy who grew up in the next town over from me (Holliston, Massachusetts) and had a group called Thundertrain. He loved to rave and be in a band.

In his tell-all, journeyman rocker, Cowboy Mach Bell, lead singer with the Joe Perry Project (1982-84), Thundertrain (1974- 80) and the Mechanical Onions opens up about his band's meteoric paths, his favorite rock musicians and how he found himself touring & singing alongside America's quintessential rock star, Joe Perry.

This is a Twenty Year 1965-85 memoir and through a series of vignettes, Mach Bell takes readers back to where it all happened: the little tent where he saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience perform; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage bust; the Thundertrain mansion and the spot where his first songwriting sessions with Joe Perry took place; the roadhouses and dragways where Thundertrain and the Joe Perry Project headlined nightly; the studios where Once a Rocker Always a Rocker was recorded; and the underground clubs that erupted whenever Mach Bell played.

I GOTTA ROCK is packed with never-before-told stories about fans, bands, rockstars, punks, the Sunset Strip, El Mocambo, groupies, backstage, the Rat and the Boston/NYC rock scene's most vital years. Cowboy gives a fresh perspective on 20 years of the most provocative moments in his turbulent rock'n'roll career.

Mach Bell also provides a detailed and stunning account of the time he spent on the road employed as a roustabout with Circus Vargas just prior to his joining the Joe Perry Project. Humorous run-ins with excited fans, famous musicians and more than one angry club owner. I Gotta Rock is at once a rocking 60's time capsule of the counterculture in Boston and beyond, a 70's reflection on what it means to find oneself as a rock performer, and an 80's tale of a life lived on the wild side. It's not only a must-read for Cowboy Mach Bell fans, but an essential volume of American pop culture history.

I Gotta Rock

492 pages Nearly 200 photographs

Bell, Cowboy Mach: - Cowboy Mach Bell is the lead singer and co-writer (with Joe Perry) of the 1983 Joe Perry Project album Once a Rocker Always a Rocker (MCA/Geffen). The recording has been re-released 18 times (and counting) in North America, Japan, Europe, Australia and Russia. This is the author's personal diary, kept during his years singing and touring with the Joe Perry Project during the early eighties.

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ISBN 13	9781733471244
ISBN 10	1733471243
Title	I Gotta Rock
Author	Cowboy Mach Bell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Panther Rock Books
Year published	2021-10-04
Number of pages	498
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