Feel the Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major

Paul Major has lived resolutely on the vanguard of musical culture for nearly a half-century; as a pioneering record collector turned eminent rock and roller, his influence is vast, far-reaching and woefully unsung - until now. Feel the Music traces Paul's singular trajectory from his early days in the Midwest, through his years in the New York punk scene, and headlong into his trailblazing career as a connoisseur of the weirdest records of all time. Illustrated throughout with unseen photographs from Paul's personal scrapbook and eye-popping rare record covers and animated by Paul's witty, inimitable storytelling style, Feel the Music is a deluxe tour through the farthest-out reaches of rock and roll history. The book includes a 7" vinyl record from Paul's band Endless Boogie.

Author: Paul Major
Publisher: Anthology Editions
Published: 06/01/2017
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781944860073

About the Author
Major, Paul: - Paul Major was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1954, placing him squarely in the generational path of rock and roll's mighty wave: fuzz guitar first blew his mind at age 12, and he hasn't looked back since. After stints playing in bands in St. Louis and Los Angeles, he moved to New York in 1978. All the while, he found himself cultivating an extensive knowledge of rare and bizarre LPs. As his expertise in obscure collecting grew, Paul began a mail-order LP business, and his catalogs soon became must-reads for their mixture of hard-won crate-digging knowledge and witty, one-of-a-kind music writing--holy texts for psychedelic lifers the world over. Starting in 1997, Paul put his decades of experience to work as the singer and guitarist of the band Endless Boogie, whose skewed, no-frills take on rock has renewed his status as a preeminent voice on the farthest, weirdest margins of popular music.Weiss, Geoffrey: - Geoffrey Weiss is a renown record collector and author of Dust & Grooves.