Toph wrote:pinkfloyd1973 wrote:This is why people who really know, like Sterling Whitaker and Allan Hirt don't come onto this board anymore. What's the point of arguing with people like Toph who really doesn't know anything?
Allan Hirt is clueless. Sterling interviewed some people associated with the band and has some legitimacy, but none of the key players would talk to him, so everything he writes has second/third person bias associated with it, not to mention the agendas of each of the individuals. Where Sterling screwed up was in not hiring an editor. That book was 3x the length it should have been. Too many quotes that are straight quotes that don't advance the dialog. In short, that book was more about assembling quotes from secondary and tertiary sources vs. providing a dialog. And the most disappointing thing? Most of the book was about the years post Kilroy, where, with the exception of a few short periods of relevance were mostly members of the band desperately trying to be solo stars (none of whom were successful for various reasons). He should have devoted much more time/effort to the glory years, but that wouldn't sell books now would it?
I'm sure Allan would like to know he's clueless. Good Lord. Shut the fuck up, already.