![]() ![]() The chapter on critics is worth a read in particular. Supernatural Strategies is a comprehensive text that encompasses the world of rock as we know it. Whether Svenonius is serious or not I’m not really sure, but this book is quite enjoyable when one suspends their own disbelief. Some notables being Brian Jones, Richard Berry, Jim Morrison, Willie Mae Thornton, and Paul McCartney (Paul is dead man, miss him, miss him, miss him). The basis for this work grows around a séance Svenonious and friends performed in order to channel the souls of dead rock stars. area, his current being Chain & The Gang. Some would argue that the written word is a safer and more detached form of expression than the open stage, but Svenonius speaks from a place of personal experience, being a member of numerous bands in the D.C. Much in the same way that George Carlin joked about the false pretenses of American culture, Svenonius snickers at modern music trends with the same genius and verve. Supernatural Strategies will serve as an indispensable guide for a new generation just aching to boogie.Yes, as pessimistic and cynical as this book may sound, it is all done in good humor. This volume features essays (and black-and-white illustrations) on everything the would-be star should know to get started, such as Sex, Drugs, Sound, Group Photo, The Van, and Manufacturing Nostalgia. Smith, Genesis P-Orridge, Chan Marshall, Ian MacKaye, and others. He was also the host of VBS.tvs Soft Focus, a different breed of chat show, where he interviewed Mark E. Therefore, he's written an instructional guide, which doubles as a warning device, a philosophical text, an exercise in terror, an aerobics manual, and a coloring book. Svenonius is the author of the underground best sellers Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock n Roll Group, Censorship Now, and The Psychic Soviet. ![]() Svenonius's experience as an iconic underground rock musician-playing in such highly influential and revolutionary outfits as The Make-Up and The Nation of Ulysses-gives him special insight on techniques for not only starting but also surviving a rock 'n' roll group. Strategies plays to these same strengths by allowing him to run roughshod riot over hallowed ground he's already trod-and sometimes paved-more than a few times. Svenonius seems uniquely qualified.Svenonius' contrarian, anti-establishment rhetoric is his greatest gift. If 'write what you know' is one of authorship's prime dictates, then Ian F. #IAN SVENONIUS SUPERNATURAL MOD#Svenonius has walked the walk.Even today-as the frontman of Chain & The Gang and the host of the online talk show Soft Focus-he remains cool, cryptic, and impeccably dressed, a mod magician with a trick always lurking up his tailored sleeve. /rebates/2fSUPERNATURAL-STRATEGIES-MAKI-Svenonius-Ian-F2f308928468782fbd&. Like its author, Supernatural Strategies is part tongue-in-cheek, part deadly serious-a satire of rock's consumerist origins but also a thoughtful treatise on what it means to devote yourself to a collective.Drawing from the wisdom of rock 'n' roll's most famous ghosts, Svenonius' advice ranges from hilarious to cryptic to surprisingly useful. Neither bourgeois nor prestigious, Supernatural Strategies may be the rare book by a rock musician to retain any power or threat. He's always seemed delighted by the fact that the profound and the preposterous can sound awfully alike, a realization that puts him in line with an avant-garde tradition that stretches back before rock 'n' roll crystallized this fact.Svenonius has the spirit of a long-gone punk past, but his book has more to tell us about rock's here-and-now than about its hereafter. So much of the allure here is in watching Svenonius skirt absurdity. Verdict: Svenonius's sociopolitical analysis of rock and roll is intellectually interesting, as when he posits that the genre was 'brought about by the industrial revolution, the harnessing of electricity, and the miscegenation of various poor, exploited, and indentured cultures in the USA.' Proscriptive how-to advice ranges over a wide number of subjects (e.g., sex, band photos, etc.) and can be seen both as skewering the cultural idolatry associated with rock and as genuine counsel. ![]()
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