Name: Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir
Brand: Kid Congo Powers

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9780306828027

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Hardback

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-10-18

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Hachette Book Group

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Sales:8.875

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Kid Congo Powers

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Hachette

Kid Congo Powers, born March 27, 1959 in La Puente, California, USA, is a Chicano renegade guitar stylist. He is known for his work in The Gun Club (which he co-founded with singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce), The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Congo Norvell, Knoxville Girls and Die Haut. Kid Congo Powers is also a prolific songwriter and lyricist.
With a career spanning multiple bands and genres, Kid Congo Powers has established himself as an influential figure in the music industry. His unique guitar style and songwriting abilities have made him a sought-after collaborator among renowned artists.
From his early days with The Gun Club to his contributions to iconic bands like The Cramps and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Kid Congo Powers has left an indelible mark on the alternative music scene. His talent extends beyond playing the guitar; he is also recognized for his skillful songwriting and poetic lyrics.

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An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes. Kid Congo Powers has been described as a “legendary guitarist and paragon of cool” with “the greatest resume ever of anyone in rock music." That unique imprint on rock history stems from being a member of not one but three beloved, groundbreaking, and influential groups—Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Cramps, and last but not least, The Gun Club, the wildly inventive punk-blues band he co-founded. Some New Kind of Kick begins as an intimate coming of age tale, of a young, queer, Chicano kid, growing up in a suburb east of East LA, in the mid-‘70s, exploring his sexual identity through glam rock. When a devastating personal tragedy crushes his teenage dreams, he finds solace and community through fandom, as founder (‘The Prez’) of the Ramones West Coast fan club, and immerses himself in the delinquent chaos of the early LA punk scene. A chance encounter with another superfan, in the line outside the Whiskey-A-Go-Go to get into a Pere Ubu concert, changes the course of his life entirely. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, a misfit Chicano punk who runs the Blondie fan club, proposes they form a band. The Gun Club is born. So begins an unlikely transition from adoring fan to lauded performer. In Pierce, he finds brotherhood, a creative voice, and a common cause, but also a shared appetite for self-destruction that threatens to overwhelm them both. Quirky, droll, and heartfelt, with a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place, and a wealth of richly-drawn supporting characters, Some New Kind of Kick is a memoir of personal transformation, addiction and recovery, friendship and belonging, set against the relentless creativity and excess of the ’70s and ’80s underground music scenes.

Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir

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