First - thank you to everyone for the welcome, and secondly, apologies to Cherrypie! I just worked out how the names and ranks are laid out
Re the waste of plastic... and this also applies to another posting about songwriting on Nightmare 2. The author was directly quoting Alice. Maybe he or his editor should have pointed out that Alice was factually wrong on one and probably wrong on the other. Or maybe not. It's a judgement call, as are a few more of the "errors" pointed out in postings - Mike or Mick Mashbir, the T Rex business, the chicken and rabbit debates, but I will say on that one, I never got the impression the author said either was "true", just that they were a part of Alice's legend, which is what the introduction said the book was about. In fact, given the nature of the errors, I thought it was funny that Thompson admitted up front that he didn't have any interest in Alice's personal life. It shows, lol.
I was asked to start a conversation about the book's good points.
Compared to other Alice biogs, including Golf Monster, Me Alice and Bruce, the chronology was clear, concise, accurate and I think error free - at least I never saw any, and nobody else has mentioned them. The author's interpretations and opinions are not always agreeable, but that's all they are, interpretations and opinions.
I loved the coverage of the Schools Out and BDB periods, especially the controversies. The early days were very well detailed and explained as well.
The Billion Dollar Babies band project doesn't interest me, but its beginnings, and the whole break up of the original band was very informative and told me a lot I didn't know.
I really enjoyed the Special Forces - Dada chapters, never having read anything as in depth about the albums and the tours. (It helps that I really like those albums too).
And the concert description towards the end of the book made me jump onto Amazon and order up some of the later DVDs because now I need to see them.
Those are a few of the book's highlights for me; and I'd love to hear about other people's. And please don't say "there weren't any"