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- Version: First Edition Paperback
- SKU: 9798218412418
- Format: BOOK
- UPC: 9798218412418
- Street Date: 07/05/24
- PreBook Date: 05/31/24
- Label: Toxic Shock »
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Run Time: 200 mins
- Number of Discs: 0
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2024
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 40
- Territory: WORLD EX GAS
- Language: English
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Bill Sassenberger - Toxic Shock Assassin Of Mediocrity
A story of love, loss and loud music.
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This is the story of unflagging love-for music, for a partnership forged in passion and steel, for a life chosen, not imposed. Bill Sassenberger, owner of Pomona's Toxic Shock and Tucson's Toxic Ranch, friend and mentor to hundreds of music aficionados, writes with honesty and without self-aggrandizement about the adventure he shared with Julianna Towns, a briiliant beauty who walked into his record store and never left. Together they nurtured musicians, started their own record label, and explored the world, even when Julianna became confined by a series of strokes at an early age. Their love story intertwines with the history of punk rock and the musical revolution that was spawned from that in a book that will expand minds and break hearts.
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More and more, I consider memoirs and folk histories to be the backbone of long-term punk consciousness. I am not talking about vapid nostalgia -- cookie cutter monologues about there and then, or mere exercises in Xeroxed memory flashbacks, like I did x, y, and z -- but books with idiosyncrasies, novel precepts, or art of the tongue. And Toxic Shock does deliver because it has a framing device that is about tender love and huge loss, the suffering and joys of Bill's wife Julianna
—David Ensminger, Random Notes
