Review: Great realism in the writing, the living of the music...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2013
WOW, such impressive writing about the inner world of the talented potential performer fighting himself and his potential. The opening  writing about the dissipation experienced by one trying very hard to bury himself takes the reader inside his head and his life quickly and distinctly.As a Vocal Therapist and Voice Teacher of many heavy metal rockers and other singers fighting their battles with their resistances and fears of not being good enough, not experiencing enough success, wondering if all the work -- vocally, emotionally, spiritually & in the music business... --  is really worth it, rings so amazingly, detailedly, heart-wrenchingly true to life.  The author's absolute knowledge of "the wrenching roller-coaster journey" to re-developing dangling skills to a reliable level to be become capable of moving  forward as a top-level performer shared the deep fears, guilts, worries, self-doubts, brief joys, awkward giving-up attempts, and the delicious little surprising victories along the tenacious way....  His descriptive writing about how music feels to us, is deeply affective, bringing you right into the music itself.  His sharings about the jazz and blues performers and lifestyles of earlier times were spot-on.  Awesome concise read in one evening, stimulating thought a long time onward, which got me back to progressing in the writing of my own book on vocal & singing develpment.