The Show I'll Never Forget

In The Show I'll Never Forget , writer Sean Manning has gathered an amazing array of unforgettable concert memories from a veritable A-list of acclaimed novelists, poets, biographers, cultural critics, and songwriters. Their candid, first-person recollections reveal as much about the writers' lives at the time as they do about the venues where the shows occurred or the artists onstage. Ishmael Reed on Miles Davis Luc Sante on Public Image Ltd. Heidi Julavits on Rush Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer on Metric Diana Ossana on Led Zeppelin Maggie Estep on Einsturzende Neubauten Dani Shapiro on Bruce Springsteen Gary Giddins on Titans of the Tenor! Nick Flynn on Mink DeVille Susan Straight on The Funk Festival Rick Moody on the The Lounge Lizards Jennifer Egan on Patti Smith Harvey Pekar on Joe Maneri Thurston Moore on Glen Branca, Rudolph Grey, and Wharton Tiers Chuck Klosterman on Prince Sigrid Nunez on Woodstock Jerry Stahl on David Bowie Charles R. Cross on Nirvana Marc Nesbitt on The Beastie Boys And many more . . . No matter where your musical taste falls, these often funny, occasionally sad, always thought-provoking essays-all written especially for The Show I'll Never Forget -are sure to connect with anyone who loves, or has ever loved, live music.

“Paste, 11/13/09 "A simple, genius idea: Get an army of extraordinary writers to dash off remembrances of extraordinary concerts."”

Editor Sean Manning's writing has appeared in the New York Press and Black Book magazine. He lives in New York.

It is one of the more universal questions that offers a glimpse into a person's soul: "What was the greatest concert you ever saw?" A rite of passage, a life-changing experience, a catalyst of musical epiphanies, a concert is an auditory, visual, and social experience unlike any other. In The Show I'll Never Forget, music journalist Sean Manning has collected an amazing array of memorable concert testimonies from a veritable A-list of writers and musicians. Take a trip back to 1955 with the poet and novelist Ishmael Reed to see Miles Davis in Paris; relive New York City's club glory days with Low Life scribe Luc Sante while taking in a Public Image Limited show at the Ritz; raise your lighter high along with novelist and Believer editor Heidi Julavits at a Rush concert; get your industrial groove on with downtown novelist and poet Maggie Estep at a cacophonic Einsturzende Neubauten show; or resurrect The Notorious B.I.G. on his Brooklyn home turf with best-selling emo scribe Andy Greenwald. No matter where your musical taste falls, these essays, all written especially for The Show I'll Never Forget, are sure to connect with anyone who loves live music.

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