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Every Good Boy Dies First
Griff swings a wild, noisy trumpet with his punk band, Garbage Truck all over the wild streets of Hollywood. But his life suddenly becomes complicated when he finds himself dodging gay bashing skinheads, a homeless jazzman gone insane, a devious band that wants to twist his music away from him and the dead, bloody corpse of a nightclub bouncer he finds behind a Sunset Boulevard dumpster.
“Every Good Boy Dies First” is a punk rock noir novel based in the alternative-fueled Nineties scene and collides hardcore crime with feedback guitars. What starts out as a young man’s daydream of fronting a punk band quickly degenerates into a nightmare. Andy Seven’s novel “Every Good Boy Dies First” is written in a stark, rapid style, just like a white-knuckled hardcore punk record.
“Every Good Boy Dies First” is a punk rock noir novel based in the alternative-fueled Nineties scene and collides hardcore crime with feedback guitars. What starts out as a young man’s daydream of fronting a punk band quickly degenerates into a nightmare. Andy Seven’s novel “Every Good Boy Dies First” is written in a stark, rapid style, just like a white-knuckled hardcore punk record.
125 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 12, 2013
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Andy Seven
18 books153 followersAndy Seven has written for music magazines and is a veteran of the original Hollywood punk scene where he played with many legendary bands. Seven's writing employs roman noir/pulp fiction elements with a strong Fifties Beat influence to create a new genre of hard-boiled writing, punk noir. His novels Hot Wire My Heart and Every Bitch For Himself are prime examples of his crime fiction.
Mr. Seven lives in Hollywood and is the author of the bi-weekly blog Out Demons Out, which is now in its sixteenth year. His poetry can be read in the anthologies Will To Flutter and Horror Sleaze Trash Quarterly.
He can also be heard reading his poetry on the current Dawn of Darkness Experiment compilation at ReverbNation and The Internet Archive.
Mr. Seven lives in Hollywood and is the author of the bi-weekly blog Out Demons Out, which is now in its sixteenth year. His poetry can be read in the anthologies Will To Flutter and Horror Sleaze Trash Quarterly.
He can also be heard reading his poetry on the current Dawn of Darkness Experiment compilation at ReverbNation and The Internet Archive.
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August 29, 2013
My very first full-length novel about a young musician's dreams and nightmares in the pursuit of artistic freedom. With a cold-blooded murder and deceptive demons lurking in every corner.
March 11, 2015
If you digged gigs, if the thrill of seeing live music was a simple necessity for your soul, where you belonged to a gang of misfits and could ride the night high on beer, drugs or lightning bolt twangs of guitar, and you were either in a band or you had friends that were, then you'll certainly identify and sympathise with punk rocker riffer Griff and his rifts with the other members of Garbage Truck; a band on the scene who might be going somewhere or might just be stuck in the groove of a metaphorical bad B side, just like so many other bands.
Perhaps we've all known bands like Garbage Truck simply because the popular musician is a contradictory creature, especially in punk circles. You want your songs to be sung by millions but you always wanna fuck The Man. That age old debate of selling out your art. Coupled with dumb ass drummer probs.
This is a delight of a punk noir novel. The story doesn't matter as much as the action of the sharp words, fights and moshes. Having already read Andy Seven's other book Every Bitch For Himself, I almost enjoyed this one more, if only because I was more accustomed to his style. There's a depth to his almost comic-strip, crisp, at times Marlowesque writing that I had perhaps overlooked first time.
More than anything though, one can judge a book by how much of a smile is upon one's face whilst reading it. I was grinning aplenty. The wry wit and dark humour is what I liked the most, and the author has good fun with such things as naming songs, like 'Toss The Midget' and 'Green Blood and Ham'. They say: “Write what you know.” Andy Seven certainly does and he delivers it brilliantly. I'll never again remember EGBDF as Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
Harry Whitewolf, author of Route Number 11 and The Road To Purification.
Perhaps we've all known bands like Garbage Truck simply because the popular musician is a contradictory creature, especially in punk circles. You want your songs to be sung by millions but you always wanna fuck The Man. That age old debate of selling out your art. Coupled with dumb ass drummer probs.
This is a delight of a punk noir novel. The story doesn't matter as much as the action of the sharp words, fights and moshes. Having already read Andy Seven's other book Every Bitch For Himself, I almost enjoyed this one more, if only because I was more accustomed to his style. There's a depth to his almost comic-strip, crisp, at times Marlowesque writing that I had perhaps overlooked first time.
More than anything though, one can judge a book by how much of a smile is upon one's face whilst reading it. I was grinning aplenty. The wry wit and dark humour is what I liked the most, and the author has good fun with such things as naming songs, like 'Toss The Midget' and 'Green Blood and Ham'. They say: “Write what you know.” Andy Seven certainly does and he delivers it brilliantly. I'll never again remember EGBDF as Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.
Harry Whitewolf, author of Route Number 11 and The Road To Purification.
August 28, 2013
After being bombarded with punk memoirs this is a breath of fresh air. I know a loner like Griff it's nice to know what's goes on in his head. I like the story of him being an outsider in a band he created. Also all the idiots he encounters, it's so frustrating. I know people like this, I could see and smell everything.
I just had to keep reading. I could not wait to see what happened to all those jerks that tormented him. Best book I ever read about the 90's punk scene. A lot of the situations were similar to what I went through when I was in a band.
I just had to keep reading. I could not wait to see what happened to all those jerks that tormented him. Best book I ever read about the 90's punk scene. A lot of the situations were similar to what I went through when I was in a band.
April 10, 2020
Plot?
There's no plot. None. At all. Nothing. The book follows Griff for some amount of time, while he sings in a band, couch surfs, and drinks, end of book. I could almost say that that last sentence is a spoiler. Throw in the spelling mistakes, grammar problems, presumably missing words, and broken dialogue exchanges, and you've saved a couple hours of time by reading something else.
There's no plot. None. At all. Nothing. The book follows Griff for some amount of time, while he sings in a band, couch surfs, and drinks, end of book. I could almost say that that last sentence is a spoiler. Throw in the spelling mistakes, grammar problems, presumably missing words, and broken dialogue exchanges, and you've saved a couple hours of time by reading something else.
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