Writer/musician Alan Goldsher is the author of the forthcoming book Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read (Thomas Dunne Books, November, 2006) as well as Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Hal Leonard, 2002) and the music-themed novels Jam (Permanent Press, 2002) and The Record Haus (PublishAmerica 2003).
As a bassist, Goldsher has recorded with Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, and Naughty by Nature; toured the world with Digable Planets; and performed at the 1994 Grammy Awards. For the past four years, he has written about dating and relationships for MSN.com. Alan's sportswriting has been seen in Basketbull: The Official Magazine of the Chicago Bulls and Sport. He is a regular contributor to Bass Player, and his feature on Darryl Jones of the Rolling Stones was the magazine's August, 2005 cover story.
Alan lives in Chicago. Visit him at http://www.AlanGoldsher.com or http://www.myspace.com/aprettygoodread
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"MODEST MOUSE: A PRETTY GOOD READ"
The Unauthorized Biography of the Platinum Selling Indie Rock Band Modest Mouse
Unruly, antagonistic, and often downright depressing, Modest Mouse seemed like one of the most unlikely candidates for mainstream stardom. Yet the band has pulled themselves through arrests and allegations to earn platinum record sales and primetime television guest spots, and become one of indie rock's most surprising success stories.
Journalist Alan Goldsher uncovers the strange, little-known details of Modest Mouse's unlikely rise, chronicling the band's difficult decade-long career, from the bottom of the Washington State indie rock scene to the current success of their records and ongoing international tours. He also reveals the troubled background and fractured history of Isaac Brock, the difficult and often abrasive frontman who has spent as much time avoiding the media as he has attepmted to control it.
Thoroughly researched, sharply funny, and filled with pictures and posters from every step of the band's career, this unauthorized bio is perfect for new and old fans looking for the band's little-known history, as well as readers of rags-to-expensive-rags underground rock histories such as "Our Band Could Be Your Life."
Available November 28, 2006
As a bassist, Goldsher has recorded with Janet Jackson, Cypress Hill, and Naughty by Nature; toured the world with Digable Planets; and performed at the 1994 Grammy Awards. For the past four years, he has written about dating and relationships for MSN.com. Alan's sportswriting has been seen in Basketbull: The Official Magazine of the Chicago Bulls and Sport. He is a regular contributor to Bass Player, and his feature on Darryl Jones of the Rolling Stones was the magazine's August, 2005 cover story.
Alan lives in Chicago. Visit him at http://www.AlanGoldsher.com or http://www.myspace.com/aprettygoodread
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"MODEST MOUSE: A PRETTY GOOD READ"
The Unauthorized Biography of the Platinum Selling Indie Rock Band Modest Mouse
Unruly, antagonistic, and often downright depressing, Modest Mouse seemed like one of the most unlikely candidates for mainstream stardom. Yet the band has pulled themselves through arrests and allegations to earn platinum record sales and primetime television guest spots, and become one of indie rock's most surprising success stories.
Journalist Alan Goldsher uncovers the strange, little-known details of Modest Mouse's unlikely rise, chronicling the band's difficult decade-long career, from the bottom of the Washington State indie rock scene to the current success of their records and ongoing international tours. He also reveals the troubled background and fractured history of Isaac Brock, the difficult and often abrasive frontman who has spent as much time avoiding the media as he has attepmted to control it.
Thoroughly researched, sharply funny, and filled with pictures and posters from every step of the band's career, this unauthorized bio is perfect for new and old fans looking for the band's little-known history, as well as readers of rags-to-expensive-rags underground rock histories such as "Our Band Could Be Your Life."
Available November 28, 2006
BLOGS
A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT ISAAC BROCK WANTING TO BEAT ME UP
NEW CITY CHICAGO - 4/17/07
Modest Melee
Local author Alan Goldsher's bout with Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock
Forgive Chicago-based writer Alan Goldsher for not being in the crowd when Modest Mouse plays the Auditorium Theatre on April 22. Isaac Brock, the lead singer of the popular rock band, wants to beat the shit out of him.
Why would the lead singer of a group that's sold over a million records in the last three years want to pummel a poor little scribe? Because Goldsher recently published an unauthorized biography about the band that Brock doesn't like. "Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read" hit the shelves last November through Thomas Dunne Books and, according to the author, has sold over 5,000 copies so far. However, the band--or at least its ringleader--isn't buying into it.
Brock has since called Goldsher out on two different instances. In the winter issue of Under The Radar magazine, Brock proclaimed: "I can say this in print, and I'm willing to do the jail time--if I ever see that guy, I'm going to beat his ass into a bloody pulp. I will do everything short of killing him. My ears are burning. I'm going to fuck that guy up."
In the March issue of Rolling Stone, Brock said he hadn't read the book--which Goldsher wrote without having access to the band--and that "I don't know how you'd write a biography about a band without talking to any of the players or their families. I think it's written on speculation, from magazine articles and shit. I think the guy who wrote it is a fucking ass and an asshole."
Ouch.
As we sat at a Starbucks in Lakeview, Goldsher went on the defensive, saying he "reached out in every way I possibly could" to get access to the band in the initial stages of the project. He tried getting ahold of them through their label, Epic, their manager and Sub Pop...
NEW CITY CHICAGO - 4/17/07
Modest Melee
Local author Alan Goldsher's bout with Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock
Forgive Chicago-based writer Alan Goldsher for not being in the crowd when Modest Mouse plays the Auditorium Theatre on April 22. Isaac Brock, the lead singer of the popular rock band, wants to beat the shit out of him.
Why would the lead singer of a group that's sold over a million records in the last three years want to pummel a poor little scribe? Because Goldsher recently published an unauthorized biography about the band that Brock doesn't like. "Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read" hit the shelves last November through Thomas Dunne Books and, according to the author, has sold over 5,000 copies so far. However, the band--or at least its ringleader--isn't buying into it.
Brock has since called Goldsher out on two different instances. In the winter issue of Under The Radar magazine, Brock proclaimed: "I can say this in print, and I'm willing to do the jail time--if I ever see that guy, I'm going to beat his ass into a bloody pulp. I will do everything short of killing him. My ears are burning. I'm going to fuck that guy up."
In the March issue of Rolling Stone, Brock said he hadn't read the book--which Goldsher wrote without having access to the band--and that "I don't know how you'd write a biography about a band without talking to any of the players or their families. I think it's written on speculation, from magazine articles and shit. I think the guy who wrote it is a fucking ass and an asshole."
Ouch.
As we sat at a Starbucks in Lakeview, Goldsher went on the defensive, saying he "reached out in every way I possibly could" to get access to the band in the initial stages of the project. He tried getting ahold of them through their label, Epic, their manager and Sub Pop...
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