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Feel the Music

Paul Major author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Anthology Editions

Published:1st Jan '10

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Feel the Music is a deluxe tour through the farthest-out reaches of rock and roll history.

Paul Major has lived resolutely at the edge of outsider music culture for nearly a half-century. As an early private press and “real people” record collector turned eminent, underground rock ‘n’ roller, his influence is felt if not heard all around us—until now. Feel the Music traces Paul’s trajectory from his formative days in the Midwest, his years in the late ’70s New York punk scene, and into his curious career as a connoisseur and campaigner of the weirdest records of all time. Brought to life with unseen photographs, rare record covers, and cut n’ paste ephemera from Paul’s long running mail order catalog, while animated by Paul’s storytelling, Feel the Music is a fanatical mystery tour through the further, outer reaches of music history. Alongside Paul’s writing, Feel the Music features essays by Johan Kugelberg, Jack Streitman, Michael P. Daley, Rich Haupt, Stefan Kery, Patrick Lundborg, Geoffrey Weiss, Jesper Eklow, and Glenn Terry. Each book also comes with a special Sorcerers and Endless Boogie split 7? vinyl record.

Without Paul Major I would know nothing about all the great records people know nothing about - Marc Maron
Some books give up what they have speedily. But there's something about this one that might just be inexhaustible... ... Next to fond memories of stinky '70s NYC and essays by like-minded devotees, Major's free-form purple-prose record catalogues make for hypnotic reading - MOJO
A fascinating chronicle of his exploits as one of the world's premier dealers of psychedelic recordings... - NPR
"Talking to Paul is like getting a history lesson in the development of obscure record collecting and together with several other devotees, he was part of laying the foundation to the collector community that we have today." - Arkivet

ISBN: 9781944860073

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 771g

272 pages