All These Things That Ive Done, Mitchell Cohen
All These Things That Ive Done, Mitchell Cohen
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All These Things That I've Done
My Insane, Improbable Rock Life

Author: Mitchell Cohen, Matt Pinfield

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2016


Synopsis

Matt Pinfield is the ultimate music fan. He's the guy who knows every song, artist, and musical riff ever recorded, down to the most obscure band's B-side single on its vinyl-only EP import. As a child, music helped Pinfield make sense of the world. Later, Pinfield would approach his music idols after concerts and explain why he loved their music. As an adult, rock music inspired his career, fueled relationships, and, at times, became a life raft.

In this expansive memoir, Pinfield traces his lifelong music obsession - from the heavy metal that infused his teenage years, to his first encounters with legends like Lou Reed and The Ramones and how, through his post-MTV years, he played a major role in bringing nineties alt rock mainstream. Over his long career, Pinfield has interviewed everyone from Paul McCartney to Nirvana to Jay-Z, earning the trust and admiration of artists and fans alike. Now, for the first time, he shares his five decades of stories from the front lines of rock and roll, exploring how, with nothing more than passion and moxy, he became a sought-after reporter, unlikely celebrity, and the last word in popular music.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucky

I enjoyed this book. Pinfield's obsessive passion for rock and rock gods is definitely contagious and his knowledge is part scholar and part geek fanboy. I also read memoirs by Carrie Brownstein, Chrissy Hynde and Kim Gordon this year. What sets Pinfield's memoir apart from the pack (not in a good w......more

I know Matt Pinfield only as the gravelly-voiced music nerd VJ from MTV's "120 Minutes," on the air back in the latest Cretaceous when one could still discover new and exciting musical acts on the network. Pinfield tells his story, from shoplifting CDs, to a local radio show in Jersey, to MTV, to be......more

Goodreads review by J.J.

My Improbable Life- Matt Pinfield Matt Pinfield was easy to like as a deejay at the Jersey Shore in the 1990s. By his admission here, he was bald, build like a rock and had a granite chewing voice. The thing was, he loved the music. He knew about bands and he knew bands. He was a normal guy who could......more