{"id":12208,"date":"2020-06-06T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12208"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:11:01","slug":"chuck-prophet-pre-order-for-book-and-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12208","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Prophet – pre order for book and new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

“How do you define success? If you let somebody else define what success is, you\u2019re a sucker. I\u2019m no sucker.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Chuck Prophet<\/strong>\u00a0started out as a post-punk California kid who helped kick-start the alt-country genre when he joined Dan Stuart\u2019s\u00a0Green On Red<\/strong>, then making a name for themselves as part of the so-called Paisley Underground alongside bands like The Dream Syndicate and The Bangles. While Green On Red established a reputation for self-destruction illuminated by flashes of brilliance in the studio and on festival stages around Europe in the late 1980s, Prophet simultaneously immersed himself in roots music and forged a solo career via backroom and basement venues across his adopted home of San Francisco. He has emerged as one of the most respected musicians of his generation, admired for his talents as a songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and live performer. He has worked with the likes of\u00a0Tony Visconti<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Warren Zevon<\/strong>, and his songs have been performed by artists as diverse as\u00a0Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Solomon Burke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Those who know him through his social-media presence or his live shows are well aware that\u00a0no one tells a story quite like Chuck Prophet<\/strong>; here, his voice rings clearly from the first page to the last as he gives\u00a0his perspective on writing, recording, and performing<\/strong>, and talks candidly about his struggles and remarkable recovery from years of addiction. As Prophet\u2019s official archivist,\u00a0author Stevie Simkin<\/strong>\u00a0draws on over a hundred hours of interviews with his subject, as well as contributions from fellow musicians, producers, friends, and associates, and\u00a0unique access to unreleased songs and live recordings and scores of previously unseen photographs<\/strong>. Time and again, Simkin puts the reader in the room with Chuck as he talks, or in the studio as he plays, and the live experience is captured from both sides of the stage monitors.<\/p>\n

An exciting rock\u2019n\u2019roll odyssey<\/strong>,\u00a0What Makes The Monkey Dance…<\/em>\u00a0is essential reading for every fan of this phenomenal artist, but also for anyone with an interest in alternative music during a period seismic change, offering a fascinating portrait of how a true artist has managed to carve out a career at the sharp end of a notoriously ruthless industry.<\/p>\n

Pre Order his book and new album Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“How do you define success? If you let somebody else define what success is, you\u2019re a sucker. I\u2019m no sucker.” Chuck Prophet\u00a0started out as a post-punk California kid who helped kick-start the alt-country genre when he joined Dan Stuart\u2019s\u00a0Green On Red, then making a name for themselves as part of the so-called Paisley Underground alongside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[155,157,5068,5067],"class_list":["post-12208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chuck-prophet","tag-green-on-red","tag-what-makes-the-monkey-dance","tag-yep-rock","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12215,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions\/12215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}