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Stories from a Hard Rock Life

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Access All Areas

By: Scott Ian
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 Entertaining, crazy, and hilarious stories from Scott Ian of Anthrax

Scott Ian, famous for cofounding legendary thrash metal band Anthrax and only slightly less so for his iconic beard, has done and seen a lot in his decades of touring. Those of you who have read Scott's memoir I'm the Man may know the history of the band, but Access All Areas divulges all the zany, bizarre, funny, and captivating tales of what went on when the band wasn't busy crafting chart-topping albums.

In his more than thirty years immersed in the hard rock scene, Scott has witnessed haunting acts of depravity backstage, punched a legendary musician, been a bouncer at an exclusive night club, guest-starred with Anthrax on Married with Children, invaded a fellow rock star's home, played poker professionally, gone on a non-date with a certain material girl, appeared on The Walking Dead, and much more.

Access All Areas allows its readers to do just that. With humor, candor, hindsight, and writing chops that would make Stephen King jealous (nope, not even on Bizarro world), Scott Ian takes his fans along for the ride at all the parties, hot spots, and behind-the-scenes shenanigans they will never hear about from anyone else. And none of it would have happened without a bit of divine inspiration from KISS. (No, seriously. Read chapter two.) Best of all, Scott seemingly lacks the ability to be embarrassed, making Access All Areas howlingly funny, self-deprecating, and every bit as brash and brazen as one would expect from one of the original architects of speed metal. Entertainment & Celebrities Music Celebrity Funny Witty Comedy Poker
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The Dimebag Darrell phone call story is worth the price of the book alone. A definite buy.

Still The Man

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Great story telling by the man. Seen him live as well for his talking tour. Some great piss funny stories. He needs new material though.

Great story telling by the man.

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maybe because I'm more a music fan the first one really spoke to me. there's still a few great stories etc but it trails off sometimes still very enjoyable if you're a Scott fan like myself.

first one was better

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Worth it for the Dime / Sebastian Back story. Brilliant. Was funny elaborating further on the Lemmy story which I first read about from interview back in Metal Magazine days.
I disliked the poker/ gambling stories and am happy about this. I don't have money to burn and enough issues lol. The audiobook lets me tune in and out and skim like a conversation on a topic I'm not too interested in. I gave up for a while with the printed copy.
I recently saw Scott playing his perfectly crunch rhythm guitar with Mr Bungle. Still crushing it. This lineup is really worth seeing if you get a chance.

Worth it for the Dime / Sebastian Back story

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Just a bunch of "nice" stories. Nothing "hard" here. The chapter about Dime pranking him almost makes up for the rest of the books' blandness. Can't recommend unless for the die hard fan.

There's no hard stuff here

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