Entertainment For Lively Minds
Keef on life
Posted by Molesworth on 17 August 2010 - 9:21am.
Just picked up a dvd of The Stones in Exile, only had a chance to take a quick look at the bonus interviews.
A real pleasure to see Keef taking the interview process seriously rather than giving us the Cap'n Jack thing he's ben doing for years. Gives me sufficient hope for the forthcoming autobiography that I've just preordered it from Amazon - comes out in October, called "Life: Keith Richards".
Are any of the other Keef tomes worth a look? I never did get Bockris' version.
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Answer me this
Who does anyone pre-order anything on Amazon, or indeed anywhere? I've even seen people do it on iTunes. It's not as if anything's going to go out of stock, is it? So why do it? I'm genuinely interested.
Dunno
I've done it once (The Cribs' Ignore the Ignorant). I was on iTunes and thought 'may as well order it now whilst I remember'. I can't think of any major advantages, other than that.
Pre-ordering
I pre-order all the time. Checking my account now, I've got the new Rough Guide to New Zealand coming to me at the end of September, and the Noma Nordic Cookbook arriving in the first week of October.
I do it because a) if I see something I want forthcoming on Amazon it saves me having to remember to go back and order it months later (I placed the cookbook order in April), and b) I like the surprise when the package does show up, because I'll inevitably have forgotten that I placed the order in the first place - it's like Christmas in October. Or March. Or whenever.
Always cut a stick when you find it
I pre-order on Amazon because it saves having to remember it later; guarantees delivery on the release/publication date*; ensures lower price if it should fall; and, given that my memory isn't what it was, it's often a lovely surprise when it arives.
Currently have the Station To Station reissue pending.
*Word subscriptions department take note.
(Sorry, couldn't let it pass, never mention it again etc.)
If you pre-release order through some record labels
Domino certainly and others, they quite often chuck in extra stuff - samplers, badges, sometimes 7"s too
Don't you remember
pre-ordering the Beatles' singles back in the day? We used to do it at our local "record bar" all the time.
As you say, it's not like they were ever going to run out or become unavailable, but we wanted to make sure we got one on the day of release, just in case.
It also made the whole magical process even more special - a new Beatles' single! And there's one with my name on it!
Plus, it was quite likely we hadn't even heard it before purchase.
We just trusted them to be fab every time.
Keef
Two worth reading
Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (his other book on Keith is only okay).
Robert Greenfield's Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones
Bockris' book is worth a go but these ones are better.
Stanley Booth is an excellent read
although from what I recall he didn't have the happiest time afterwards.
Pre-ordering
I pre-ordered the Richard Thompson cd because it has a bonus cd of demo versions which is supposedly a limited release. This could either be extremely good marketing and I have been suckered in or it could be true and the edition could disappear off the face of the Earth within weeks of release. Somehow I think the first scenarion is more likely but as a die-hard fan I dont want to take the risk of missing out.
Bokris - yes!
In my top ten music biog's. A well researched, accurate and informative offstage take bottling the essence of Keith and Keef.
Question - is much pre-order
Question - is much pre-order stuff discounted? I suppose that would be another reason to get in early.
Not neccessarily
But what Amazon guarantee is that you'll pay the lower price if it drops between the time of ordering and the time of shipping. So if it's £10 when you order, then drops to £8 a week later, then rises to £9 at the time it's actually released, you pay £8.
Thats one reason I do it
and another is that it's no different really from buying stuff that's currently out.
I have the new cds from Robert Plant and Grinderman on order because I know I'm going to want to hear them when they come out, so I might as well click now as have to come back and do it in six weeks time, especially with the lower price guarantee. If its stuff by other artists where I'm happy to wait 12 months and get it for half the price, I dont click.
Thanks for the Keef recommendations above!