Prevost, Greg
On The Street I Met A Dog
"*2nd pressing of Greg Prevost' autobiography and the definitive Chesterfield Kings history! *The book features 420 pages including 48 of detailed previously unpublished color and black and white pictures. *Hard cover, glossy heavy paper *Richie Unterberger writes: "There are also encounters with an amazing roster of figures, not all of them the '60s garage rockers you'd expect, though some of them are here too, like Question Mark and Mark Lindsay. There are also meetings with Ray Davies, Graham Nash, Mick Taylor, and even (briefly) Mick Jagger that cast a somewhat different, and usually sympathetic, light on these superstars than usual. There are also some brief encounters that case big stars in an unflattering light (Elvis Costello, Joan Jett), and some interactions that are downright surprising (a double date including Lydia Koch, soon to rename herself Lydia Lunch). [...] It's a testament to the extraordinary perseverance needed to maintain a half-century or so career playing music more for love than for realistic hopes at stardom or even profit, though some brushes with major label interest and big-time media coverage made it seem momentarily possible. While critical at times of some of his associates, particularly as the Chesterfield Kings wound down and reached a cul-de-sac of sorts, he doesn't spare himself in examining faults and failures. His recent more blues-oriented efforts as Greg Stackhouse Prevost are also discussed, leaving the impression of a man more at peace with his stubbornly uncommercial approaches than he was at times when he achieved wider recognition in his youth." *The Chesterfield Kings, as Mike Stax of Ugly Things magazine wrote "[...] were also the first - along with The Unclaimed on the West Coast - to take a seriously purist approach to recreating the look, the sound, the feel, the smells of mid-Sixties American garage-punk. In doing so they inadvertently spawned a new mutation of the form that proliferated around the planet via a pre-digital grass roots network of friends, fans and fanzines. [...] Greg tells his story without affectation in a straightforward, chronological style laced with plenty of sarcasm and humour - much of it self-deprecating, all of it hilarious. He's not here to pump up his legend or settle old scores; he's here to put the facts on the record. [...] But this isn't just a book about the Chesterfield Kings; it tells the larger story of Greg's life from his birth in 1955 until the present day - a life that spans the entire rock 'n' roll era, all of it lived in the city Rochester [...]. Onstage with the Chesterfield Kings he was one of the wildest, most visully arrestings rock 'n' roll front men since Iggy. Offstage he's polite, friendly, humorous and intelligent". Mike Stax - Ugly Things Magazine Summer 2022"