Prices for Krautrocksampler seem to be £150 - £350 and above. Cope doesn't want to reprint it and it does have errors. Personally I leaned more from the Japanese book but they are both wonderful "gateway drugs". I found a battered old bookmark from Shakespeare & Company in the hardback - not that that is where I bought the book.
@djh Interestingly, Krautrocksampler is available for free download on Archive.org. Is this legit?
Prices for Krautrocksampler seem to be £150 - £350 and above. Cope doesn't want to reprint it and it does have errors. Personally I leaned more from the Japanese book but they are both wonderful "gateway drugs". I found a battered old bookmark from Shakespeare & Company in the hardback - not that that is where I bought the book.
@djh Interestingly, Krautrocksampler is available for free download on Archive.org. Is this legit?
I don't see how it can be but if you believe in open access specifically for research material not otherwise commercially available at a reasonable price... I flicked through my copy and realised how difficult that typeface would be for me to read 20 years down the line. I think someone must have had to destroy a copy to scan it.
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"A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & the 1970s" is a comprehensive 2020 book by music journalist Mike Barnes that explores the history, culture, and evolution of British progressive rock.
“A grand survey of the most ambitious and pretentious British rock of the age” Uncut
“A masterly evocation... as complete a picture as you're likely to find anywhere” Bill Bruford (King Crimson, Yes)
“Prog rock’s essential guidebook” Ian Rankin, international bestselling author
"Extremely impressive and comprehensive study of progressive rock." Steve Howe (Yes)
One of many books I owned that went to charity or the bin when I moved. Not a bad read but a bit basic maybe? Great title reference anyway. Hard to believe how difficult it was to give books to charity on mass, i.e. in the thousands.
@djh I know what you mean about giving away books. My father-in-law died last year aged 100 years and two weeks! He was an avid collector of interesting books and jazz records. There was limited interest all round. However, absolutely no problem with his wine collection!
I have books that I read that are chosen at random. Usually, a decision is made afterwards whether that book stays on the shelf. If it doesn't, I prefer that it end up in someone's "little library" that I often see outside homes, but the real question that I often have is *which* little library. I'm confident that I'll come up with a way to figure that out.
When we moved a couple of years ago I needed to get rid of a lot of academic books from my time working as a university lecturer. They proved very difficult to move on, until i discovered a larger Oxfam shop would take them to move to their shops in university towns.
Our local library has a bin at its front entrance for unwanted books which are then given to the local Rotary Club for sale in its second hand book shop.
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https://archive.org/details/Krautrocksampler
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“A grand survey of the most ambitious and pretentious British rock of the age” Uncut
“A masterly evocation... as complete a picture as you're likely to find anywhere” Bill Bruford (King Crimson, Yes)
“Prog rock’s essential guidebook” Ian Rankin, international bestselling author
"Extremely impressive and comprehensive study of progressive rock." Steve Howe (Yes)
https://echoesanddust.com/2021/06/mike-barnes-a-new-day-yesterday-uk-progressive-rock-the-1970s/