THE AGE OF ROCK, VOL. 2 -JONATHAN EISEN, ED. - RANDOM HOUSE VINTAGE - $2.95

It’s a prank. It’s also the best rock book ever published. The reason that’s so is because it isn’t a rock book at all but a very good book which happens to have something to do with music but not much. What has made most rock books dull has been that they have been about music and the freaky scene and the musicians and what they have been about music and the freaky scene and the musicians and what they do and the groupies who ball them and philosophy and shit like that. They have all treated rock. The Age of Rock (I) was a great book but it too was essentially a treatment, even though some of the writing in it took off on its own. It was all content.