Black Heart Fades Blue, Jerry A. Lang
Black Heart Fades Blue, Jerry A. Lang
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Black Heart Fades Blue
Volume One

Author: Jerry A. Lang

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/24/2022

Synopsis

If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my story and I'm sticking to it. That's the one thing I have, the truth.

Volume one of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rock's most notorious acts, Poison Idea

In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over thirty years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart.

Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life.

About Jerry A. Lang

Jerry A. Lang is the former frontman and founder of the seminal punk band Poison Idea, which has performed since 1980 and recorded seven albums and dozens of EPs in the forty years of their existence. Poison Idea was an influence on bands like Nirvana, Turbonegro, Pantera, Napalm Death, and many, many more. Black Heart Fades Blue is Jerry's first book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea on February 04, 2022

Not giving this five stars because it’s a great work of literature but because it is so fucking readable. Especially if you live in Portland and know the people and places Jerry talks about. I can’t wait to get on to the next volume.......more

Goodreads review by Jason on January 04, 2025

This review is dedicated to the memory of D.H. , the biggest Poison Idea fan I've ever known. I miss you, brother. By the late 1980s, hardcore punk was starting to run out of steam. People were bored with three cord thrash so both bands and audiences began branching out into other styles that were......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 13, 2024

I came to this book – part one of a 3 Volume set - because I’m a fan of Poison Idea, the legendary U.S. underground punk band Jerry fronted for forty years, but I don’t think you’d need to approach Black Heart Fades Blue from that direction to find it an engaging read. I’ve been reading chapters bef......more

Goodreads review by Michael on May 24, 2022

Required reading for any Poison Idea fan A lot of stories about child abuse in the beginning. Pretty horrifying, especially if you're expecting a typical music biography. But a page-turner nonetheless... I'm not sure this needed to be three separate books, volume one is only about 250 pages. But that'......more

Goodreads review by Abel on May 18, 2022

This is an amazing story of of someone who came from nothing and found himself fronting one of the most legendary and influential punk bands of all times. The vignettes and stories range from hilarious to tragic. A big thumb's up.......more

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