Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top: the ZZ Top Letters...and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n' Roll
    My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top: the ZZ Top Letters...and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n' Roll
    My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top: the ZZ Top Letters...and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n' Roll
    Ebook155 pages38 minutes

    My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top: the ZZ Top Letters...and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n' Roll

    By Jon Glaser

    3/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    With this shocking tell-all, revealing the all-true, 100% fake secrets about music’s biggest names, Jon Glaser—a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and the creator and star of Adult Swim’s Delocated—is about to rock the world of, well, rock and roll. The long-buried (or possibly, never-yet-imagined) dreadful secrets of music’s most notable talents—including Prince’s bar mitvah remixes, Fleetwood Mac’s deals with McDonald’s, and more—are, in the vein of John Hodgman’s More Information Than You Require and The Onion’s Our Dumb Century, a wry and blasphemous tribute to the popular culture icons we hold dear.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 8, 2011
    ISBN9780062042286
    My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top: the ZZ Top Letters...and More 100% Real, Never Before Seen Documents from the World of Rock n' Roll

    Related to My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top

    Related ebooks

    Humor & Satire For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Robert Plant

      Nov 12, 2019

      Robert Plant
      16 min read

    • Article

      Drive-by Truckers

      May 19, 2022

      Drive-by Truckers
      4 min read

    • Article

      Nearly Lost You

      May 16, 2019

      Nearly Lost You
      9 min read

    • Article

      Led Zeppelin

      Apr 28, 2020

      Led Zeppelin
      2 min read

    • Article

      Best Of Both Worlds

      Aug 16, 2021

      In 1985, when Van Halen singer David Lee Roth quit the band, Eddie Van Halen was left facing the toughest challenge of his career. He was the most famous guitar player on the planet – the guy who had revolutionised the art of rock guitar in the late

      5 min read

    • Article

      Nearly Lost You

      Jul 21, 2020

      Nearly Lost You
      9 min read

    • Article

      Albums

      Jun 22, 2021

      Albums
      26 min read

    • Article

      L.a.man

      May 4, 2021

      MYTHS AND MYSTERY pervade nearly everything about the Doors. But at the heart of those myths are real people. And real people are never one-dimensional, are they? The same may be said about the Doors as a collective, and perhaps even more so, as indi

      16 min read

    • Article

      This Woman’s Work

      Sep 9, 2022

      This Woman’s Work
      22 min read

    • Article

      Metal Thrived

      Dec 8, 2022

      Metal Thrived
      5 min read

    • Article

      Rebel Rousers

      Jul 27, 2021

      Rebel Rousers
      11 min read

    • Article

      Universal Monsters

      Nov 11, 2021

      Universal Monsters
      7 min read

    • Article

      Jenny Boyd as Jennifer Juniper

      Apr 27, 2020

      One of the best parts of writing for Goldmine is that I get a chance to write about an era that I not only grew up in but whose music, and the people involved in its creation, remain indelibly etched into my DNA. The sudden upheaval of the coronaviru

      6 min read

    • Article

      Roxy Musıc

      Apr 21, 2022

      Roxy Musıc
      10 min read

    • Article

      Soul Asylum

      Apr 28, 2020

      Soul Asylum
      1 min read

    • Article

      Unlimited Love

      Apr 19, 2022

      By Amit Sharma, Jim Beaugez, Damian Fanelli, Joshua Miller, Joe Bosso and Damon Orion “John has always been an MVP in any band he performs with. He always writes the perfect part, and his passion for vintage recording gear captures his tone magnific

      8 min read

    • Article

      JakobDylan

      Jun 17, 2021

      JakobDylan
      3 min read

    • Article

      Pantera Goes Wylde

      Feb 12, 2024

      Pantera Goes Wylde
      18 min read

    • Article

      Time Has Told

      May 11, 2023

      Time Has Told
      3 min read

    • Article

      High Times

      Feb 4, 2020

      High Times
      13 min read

    • Article

      AtoZ

      May 19, 2022

      AtoZ
      24 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top

    3/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      The Good Stuff * Truly unique, I can honestly say I have never read anything quite like this before * You will snort out loud at times - obviously still have not learned to read stuff like this on public transit * Prince's set list for Spielberg's daughters bat mitzvah is hilarious * The reason behind the naming of the Butthole surfers will make you snort coffee out your nose -- trust me DO NOT read this bit in public * The before they made it section is funny * Quick short read when you are looking for something to pass the timeThe Not so Good Stuff * A little too obscene at times & I am not prudish * Expected it to be funnier * lot of it lost on me since I am really not the intended audience for this one * The Rod Stewart bit grossed me out!Favorite Quotes/Passages"And your suggestion of "several slices of Lindsey Bucking-ham, white cheddar cheese that represents the cocaine Stevie Nicks is addicted to, Mick Fleet-wood smoked bacon, and John and Christine McVie-al (veal)" does sound yummy." But two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun seems to work very well for us, so we're going to stick with that.""The father of the Butt-hole Surfers' lead singer Gibby Haynes, was a Navy SEAL who was killed in the line of duty while surfing the butthole of Idi Amin."What I Learned * About Paul Anka berating his band and some of the quotes from this recording were used in Ocean's Thirteen * Nothing else since it is all fake -- but it was funWho should/shouldn't read * This is one for fans of rock and roll, especially classic rockers * Not for prudish, there is a lot of obscenity and naughty descriptions * Great coffee table book, will start some interesting discussions * Again if you are easily offended by off colour language, this will offend you!3 Dewey'sI received this from HarperPerennial in exchange for an honest review

    Book preview

    My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top - Jon Glaser

    My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top

    100% Real,* Never-Before-Seen Documents from the World of Rock and Roll

    Jon Glaser

    With a Foreword by Ira Kaplan

    For Leslie, Nathan,

    and my as-this-was-going-to-print-still-alive father

    "I bought a ticket to the world,

    But now I’ve come back again.

    Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

    Oh, I want the truth to be said."

    —SPANDAU BALLET

    Contents

    Epigraph

    Foreword

    Introduction

    Van Halen

    Kings of Leon

    The Runaways

    The B-52s

    Fleetwood Mac

    Secret Sellouts

    Bob Dylan

    David Bowie

    Cream

    Deep Purple

    Jethro Tull

    Kiss

    Led Zeppelin

    Bruce Springsteen

    The Rolling Stones

    Cut to: 48 Years Later

    Elton John

    Lola Layla L????A

    MC5

    Grateful Dead

    Alice Cooper

    T. Rex

    Santana

    Prince

    The Beatles

    The White Stripes

    The Sea and Cake

    The Butthole Surfers

    Before They Made It

    Boston

    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Foreigner

    Motörhead

    The Doobie Brothers

    Van Morrison

    Flock of Seagulls

    System of a Down

    Foo Fighters

    I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness

    Pink Floyd

    Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

    Rod Stewart

    The Guess Who

    The Modern Lovers

    The Jesus and Mary Chain

    The Jam / Paul Weller

    The Who

    The Velvet Underground

    Yo La Tengo

    The Tonight Show

    Epilogue

    Appendix

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

    Credits

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    FOREWORD

    Regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again too few to mention. Words to live by, whether you come to that sentiment via Frank Sinatra (whose birthplace of Hoboken, New Jersey, has been my home for decades) or Sid Vicious or even Paul Anka (if you have never heard the recording of him berating his band, put down this book immediately—after paying for it, of course—and seek it out). But I do have one regret I’d like to share with you.

    Time was I proofread books for a cheapo paperback publisher. Most of my assignments were sexy postapocalyptic survivalist dramas and sexy Old West cowboys and Indians dramas, but on one occasion I was given a compendium of rock ’n’ roll trivia to correct. This book was riddled with mistakes to a laughable degree, and my regret is that I didn’t xerox the thing in its original form, because all these years later the only example of its slapdashitude I can recall is a reference to Maria Muldaur’s 1974 hit record

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1