Fascinating misfit, Brian Tristan has the best CV in 80s rock. President of the West Coast Ramones fan club that he launched in 1976, at the dawn of his 20s, creator of the Gun Club with Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the guitarist of the Cramps who renamed him Kid Congo then for Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds, not to mention numerous solo adventures or as leader of some more personal groups, including a torrid duo tour with the techno musician Khan who passed through Pulp in the early 2000s. Of course his autobiography is a mine of tender anecdotes about this fauna and an era much less sanitized than ours. But what is most touching in this highly sensitive autobiography is that it tells above all the journey of a young homosexual of Mexican origin, coming out or returning to the closet depending on the situations and the people he talks to, towards self-acceptance, freed from an addiction to heroin which served him as a crutch for a long time. More than a rock book, a learning novel.
Kid Congo Powers with Chris Campion Some New Kind of Kick Edition Le Bolon
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