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Index
Cover
Title Page
Other Books By This Author
Dedication
Contents
Intro - Bruce Springsteen Is a Rock Star, You Are Not
Gratuitous List #1: Bands Shamelessly Overexposed by the “Alternative” Press
Chapter 1 - The DF Starter Kit (No Assembly Required!)
Interlude: Paradise Theater, American Classic
Chapter 2 - Moving in Stereo
Reluctant Exegesis: “(I Bless the Rains Down in) Africa”
Chapter 3 - How I Became a Music Critic
Interlude: Why Covering the Grammys Is Not as Glamorous as You May Have Been Led to Believe
List #2: Ten Things You Can Say to Piss Off a Music Critic
Chapter 4 - Configurations (or How The Industry F’d Us)
List #3: Rock’s Biggest Assholes
Chapter 5 - What Songs Do
Reluctant Exegesis: “Fade to Black”
Chapter 6 - Nil Lara Was Our Messiah
Interlude: Five Really Stupid Things I’ve Done as a Drooling Fanatic
Chapter 7 - On the Varieties of Fanatical Experience
List #4: Rock’s Top Ten Religious Freaks
Chapter 8 - How Hip-Hop Sounds in a Canyon
Interlude: Winter in America with Gil Scott-Heron
Chapter 9 - In Which Mr. Joe Henry (Rather Unwittingly) Becomes My Writing Coach
Interlude: A Mercifully Brief Survey of Prog Rock Lyricism
Chapter 10 - The Mating Habits of the Drooling Fanatic
Reluctant Exegesis: “All Out of Love”
Chapter 11 - The Marriage of Fanatico
Interlude: The Kip Winger Canon
Chapter 12 - Burying the Dead with Ike Reilly
List #5: Top Ten Covers of All Time
Chapter 13 - Why in God’s Name Am I Managing a Band? The Boris McCutcheon Story
Interlude: A Frank Discussion of My Mancrush on Bob Schneider
Chapter 14 - How Dave Grohl Taught Me to Stop Whining and, Against Every Known Impulse in My Body, Embrace Happiness
List #6: I See Your Muffin and Raise You a Pirate: The Many Silly Names of Rock Star Spawn
Chapter 15 - Dayna Kurtz Sings the World a Lullaby
Outro - Drooling Fanaticism in the Age of Actual Drooling
Appendix A
Appendix B
Acknowledgments
Permission Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
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