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Has anyone read this book?

Stealing all Transmissions - by Randal Doane

http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-All-Tran ... 937330206/

http://stealingalltransmissions.wordpress.com/2012/10/

here's the guy's blog:

http://stealingalltransmissions.wordpress.com/


edit: replaced google books preview link with amazon item because the url was so fucking long.
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esteemantis wrote:Has anyone read this book?

Stealing all Transmissions - by Randal Doane

http://books.google.com/books?id=nEkv4- ... on&f=false

http://stealingalltransmissions.wordpress.com/2012/10/

here's the guy's blog:

http://stealingalltransmissions.wordpress.com/

Not read the book but have just watched a Joy Division DVD which references that title "All that is solid melts into air".
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I only just found out about this book and searched IMCT to see if anyone had read it... this is somehow the only thread about it? Seems really interesting.

A very complimentary blurb —
“Randal Doane’s Stealing All Transmissions is not the story I was expecting from the title. Thankfully. We have all read those books about artists of all stripes (and zippers), from which we learn only about misery, malfeasance, and bad behavior. But this is not that book. The Clash is at the center of the story, but the heart of it belongs to other players. People drawn into the orbit who cared, who pushed both themselves and the band forward, who took risks because they felt and knew they were seeing and hearing a revolution. The people who were excited and inspired by the catalysts (The Clash), whose stories are integral to the core of the band’s American journey, and fascinating to finally read about, all in one place.

I loved (and envied) The Clash—the gang of four who dressed better, who wore their hearts and mistakes on their zippered sleeves, and played songs with the force of racehorses bursting from the gate. A good number of people got it from the outset—and because of them as much as the band themselves, an even greater number eventually ‘got it.’ And they are still getting it.

A large and raucous cheer to Randal Doane for choosing the near-mythical Baker to write the foreword. We are treated to nearly two books in one! Ladies and gentlemen, please raise your glasses and cans to Messrs. Doane and Auguste. A triumphant work from this unlikely Gang of Two.”

—Hugo Burnham, founder and drummer, Gang of Four, associate professor, New England Institute of Art

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I’ve got it but I don’t think I have read it yet, in the same way that I have loads of Clash DVDs that I haven’t watched yet!

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Joe doesn't actually sing "stealing all transmissions" in Radio Clash though, does he? It sounds like "resuming" or "assuming."
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
09 Dec 2017, 6:33am
Joe doesn't actually sing "stealing all transmissions" in Radio Clash though, does he? It sounds like "resuming" or "assuming."
Receiving and resuming IIRC.
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Wolter wrote:
09 Dec 2017, 10:41am
Heston wrote:
09 Dec 2017, 6:33am
Joe doesn't actually sing "stealing all transmissions" in Radio Clash though, does he? It sounds like "resuming" or "assuming."
Receiving and resuming IIRC.
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Wow, really?

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Inder wrote:
09 Dec 2017, 12:10pm
Wow, really?
Go read your stories about multiple jokers or whatever.
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I seriously didn't know. I'm going to listen to the song again.

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Inder wrote:
09 Dec 2017, 12:27pm
I seriously didn't know. I'm going to listen to the song again.
Oh, I thought you were making fun of the anorak levels.
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Wolter wrote:
09 Dec 2017, 12:36pm
Inder wrote:
09 Dec 2017, 12:27pm
I seriously didn't know. I'm going to listen to the song again.
Oh, I thought you were making fun of the anorak levels.
I also only recently discovered the last line of Tomorrow Never Knows is "play the game / existence to the end / of the beginning" and not "resistance," which changes its meaning slightly...

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It’s a great book.

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