Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
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Maybe I’m writing myself toward an emotional breakdown and I’m the last one to realize it. That actually sounds like a pretty great book.
Brian
But then you like David Markson
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I’m a pretty normal-looking straight white dude with all of the general societal acceptance that status entails, and yet I am still grateful to have found some encouragement to resist conformity in the way I look at and think about the world.
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I was never sure exactly why I thought they deserved to be punished. Maybe it was just for liking stupid bullshit like Black Oak Arkansas.
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Not everyone has this reaction, but opiates energized me. The warm maternal sense of well-being that every opiate addict loves was there, too, of course, but for me at least, it was like waking up from the perfect night’s sleep. I was alert, motivated, and clearheaded. I felt normal.
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No part of being in a band and making records and putting them out on your own label is so awful that you can’t find a way to make it more creative and interesting. I highly recommend it if you have the energy and opportunity to do so.
Brian
And thus is born Headstrong Records
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Back at the Loft, Tom and I know when we’ve been tweaking a song for too long. He says it’s when I start focusing on things that “Will not affect sales.” If I’m thinking about what the hi-hat sounds like, it’s time to stop. I’ve gone too far and I’ve lost my mind. Nobody in the world gives a fuck what a hi-hat sounds like. As long as it doesn’t break the spell, nobody cares. If somebody does care about it, then they work in a recording studio and they’re already too far up their own asses to ever truly like anyone’s record anyway.