Author Description

The world is full of glossy biographies that romanticise rock star lives, but did you ever wonder what it's really like to be a hardworking professional musician in a touring band? Author and guitarist Pete Fisher has compiled a selection of authentic tour life anecdotes, based on the detailed diaries he wrote while on the road with a successful reggae band from 2001 until 2008. During this time he played 420 concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Morocco, Surinam and California. Pete takes you with him onto the tour bus, into the dressing rooms and backstage areas and onto the stages at over 200 concerts spread over several continents. The venues ranged from small steamy 500-capacity clubs up to huge 10,000-seater concert halls, along with many major outdoor festival appearances in front of audiences of 30,000 or more. Pete doesn't pull the punches when it comes to describing the gritty realities of a musician's life on tour, but his canny and irrepressible sense of humour lends a hilarious note to his anecdotes and a unique charm to his adventures. This was also key to his surviving the rigours of the road. With nearly 70 colour photos and a treasure trove of memorabilia, this book will let you immerse yourself in a real life story of the road. You will literally feel the noise, be blinded by the lights and almost deafened by the crowd before you are whisked overnight in the tour bus to the next venue, in a book you'll find it hard to put down.