Dag Erik Asbjornsen has written this book about German progressive rock in the 1970’s in which he documents the experimental and progressive from West Germany.The book starts with a very short introduction in which he gives a brief overview of the beginning of this wave of bands that appeared in Germany towards the end of the 1960’s ad early 1970’s.
He mentions the well known and important groups and their influences; he then moves on to explain the purpose of this book: “to provide comprehensive information about the German rock scene of the 1970’s” and also about “some artists of the 1980’s” whom he considers tp have a merit entry
The main part of the book is devoted to the bands in the form of an alphabetic index where each band has a short bio, lineup and discography (if available).
Occasionally there are pictures of album covers or of the musicians. Depending on how much is known about the band and how productive it was, the length and depth of the bio changes appropriately.
At the end of the book comes a “Summary of collectable labels” providing succinct info on the various labels that either operated or still operate their catalog and in the case of the Brain label, the catalog includes a short description of each release.
An index of all bands and artists included in the book comes at the very end. The book is arranged in an easy to read and friendly way.
The writing is personal given from the experience, knowledge and impression of the author making it feel as if you were a guest at his house while he goes over his collection, explaining to you with patience about each and every band to the best of his abilitie (partial extract of review from Avestin - progarchives.com).
This is for the newly updated and revised 2008 edition with nearly 100 extra pages (320 pages in total).
It was issued in a limited release of 2000 copies and very hard to find now.
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CODE: 50907
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