Five Years Ahead of My Time
Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present
Distributed for Reaktion Books
224 pages
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40 halftones
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5 3/4 x 8 1/4
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© 2019
Review Quotes
Shindig!
"A concise, passionately written, and well researched account. . . . It should have you dusting down armfuls of those old nuggets before you’ve even reached Chapter Two."
Methodist Recorder
"The 'simplicity and energy' that characterized much independently created music over the years is told in Bovey's remarkable book Five Years Ahead of My Time. . . . Here in a myriad of factual information is the saga of how bands could spring up in backrooms and garages and initially find life outside of record companies. . . . Bovey delves into numerous garage music nuances and categories with skill. . . . For musicos this is a gem of a book."
David Stubbs, author of “Future Days" and "Mars by 1980”
“A fine and thorough account, copious in historical detail and explanation of a movement that has survived on sheer, unquenchable fuzztone enthusiasm.”
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