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Someone Counts to Four and Then You Start Playing

Radical Insights for Aspiring Rock ‘n’ Roll Musicians

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Someone Counts to Four and Then You Start Playing

By: Mike Edison
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SOMEONE COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING is a bold call to return to the fundamentals of rock’n’roll — Rhythm, Rebellion, Sex, and Soul. It is seductive, subversive, dangerously wry, and radically authentic. It encourages curiosity, adventure, imagination, protest, and a little bit of trouble. It is all about creating possibilities.

SOMEOME COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING puts the dirt and grime back in rock’n’roll music by putting the people back in power. It offers raw insights for aspiring musicians looking for an uncorrupted worldview with hard-fought lessons in blues and punk rock. It exposes the tyranny of taste, talent, and technique, and rips the sheets off of traditional music theory.

SOMEONE COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING tears a path from Little Richard and Bo Diddley through the Sex Pistols, Nirvana, and the White Stripes, and along the way celebrates the New York Dolls, the Stooges, the Cramps, and America’s rich tradition of juvenile delinquency. It is a love letter with a happy ending, a self-empowering, life-changing book for anyone who wants to disturb the universe by opening up their hearts and having an unapologetic good time.

Author MIKE EDISON dances freely with anarchy and existentialism, quantum physics, and cheap pyrotechnics. This isn’t just a book about rock’n’roll, it is the thing itself, a rock’n’roll manifesto that should be nailed to the front door of the local music school—and the local bar.

SOMEONE COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING is about that moment when you let go and realize perfection isn’t the goal, excitement is.
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