The New Like Novel - 5 Star Amazon.com Review

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" Like, Misunderstood " by Rick Brown & Mike Stax

 

This amazing story Rocks!, January 10, 2008

By S. Wolfe " Johnny Ricochet " (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews

 

For those who are interested in the real history of rock and roll this

book is a must read. I knew about this band long ago and wondered what

happened to em. Now after finding out about this new book and reading

it I'm glad to see this story got written.

 

The Misunderstood, who's name is even more appropriate now then in the

60's, was on the road to huge stardom before the lead singers (Rick

Brown) life boomeranged when he got drafted. He had written some of the

early psychadelic anthems like " I can take you to the sun " and others

which were recognized by music historians.

 

Having grown up myself in the 60's as a teenager in California and

being a devout fan of the Yardbirds (with the original members of Eric

Clapton and then later Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) if you were hip you

knew about The Misunderstood.

 

When the Misunderstood went to England they were doing things on stage

which were later aped by such luminaries as Pink Floyd, Zeplin and

others. Eric Clapton describes in his new book a lot about this whole

magical period in England. It was during that time when Clapton had

joined the Yardbirds and the swinging 60's London had taken off.

 

This was the scene the Misunderstood got dropped into and they were

just ready to take off on a huge worldwide tour when the dream took a

differt turn...and Rick the lead singer got drafted.

 

The story talks about Rick being invited by Jeff Beck to stay at his

pad for a while, the parties, the insanity and just the whole rock and

roll dream that was so within reach. You got to read the book just for

this part of the story...its a riot.

 

However, I found the most interesting part of this whole amazing story

is Rick Browns hiding out in India/Nepal and doing everything from

living in misquito invested jungles as a monk to becoming friendly with

the President of India to discovering ancient ruby mines. Now thats

rock and roll.

 

Anyway, this is an amazing story that is fun to read. A true " can't put

it down til you finished " type read and with an unusual writing style

called " surf talk " or something.

 

This is an unusual and highly entertaining and somewhat enlightening

story of the irony of a true rock star that played his life out on a

different stage. At least a genuine peace of true Rock history has not

been left buried in antiquity with the release of this book. ---Keep

rockin, Johnny Ricochet

 

Ref.

http://www.amazon.com/Like-Misunderstood-Rick-Brown-Mike/dp/0977816613/ref=pd_bb\

s_sr_1?ie=UTF8 & s=books & qid=1200354340 & sr=1-1

 

 

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