{"product_id":"michael-goldberg-wicked-game-the-true-story-of-guitarist-james-calvin-wilsey-new-paperback-book-2022-hozac-books","title":"Michael Goldberg - WICKED GAME - The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey  - New Paperback book 2022 Hozac Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here’s the story of an unsung genius that, in many ways, is the story of every working musician, a cautionary tale of crappy apartments and cool guitars, of untold temptations, abject surrender and the pawnshop at the beginning and end of the arc. It’s a story of youth, beauty and inspiration on the razor’s edge, of love and compulsion, solidarity and betrayal, of a quiet man who played loud. Of a dark song and darker fate. And of San Francisco in the era of the Mabuhay Gardens, $150 rent and Persian Brown. Michael Goldberg’s book about his friend Jimmy Wilsey will give you chills. Not since Ben Fong-Torres’s biography of Gram Parsons (one of Wilsey’s musical forebearers) has there been a more heartrending portrait of a rock star.”\u003cbr\u003e– Robert Duncan, former Creem Magazine writer and author of Loudmouth and The Noise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A riveting biography of a brilliant but doomed guitarist who helped usher in San Francisco punk, played haunted guitar for Chris Isaak, then remade himself as a Downtown LA loftista musician and IT guy before self destructing as a homeless junky. This reads like a classic noir spiral and is hard to put down. Goldberg describes the twisted path of addiction and life’s dark side but also wild joy, inspired creation and for a time, unlimited possibility in the life of James Wilsey. Filled with local color, music history, and eyewitness interviews.”\u003cbr\u003e– Denise Hamilton, author of the Eve Diamond crime novels and editor of the “Los Angeles Noir” collections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wicked Game is the story of a song, leading through the beginnings of San Francisco Punk Rock, the Avengers, and Silvertone\/Chris Isaak to find that riff and the price paid.”\u003cbr\u003e– James Stark, editor of Shut up You Animals!!! A Remembrance of Dirk Dirksen and author\/photographer, Punk ’77 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Author Michael Goldberg presents a labyrinthian portrait, intensely detailed, wrenchingly empathetic, of the rise and fall of the tragic Jimmy Wilsey, the brilliant but troubled guitarist behind Chris Isaak’s biggest hit in Wicked Game: The True Story of James Calvin Wilsey.”\u003cbr\u003e– Joel Selvin, author of Hollywood Eden and Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An addictive biography, this portrait of James Wilsey’s musical genius is also a striking and indelible story of a Los Angeles whose past is portrayed as vividly as a Nan Goldin photograph blown up large, while Wilsey’s songs and friends move through the streets.”\u003cbr\u003e– Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon, Take One Candle Light a Room, Between Heaven and Here and other novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An almost-Shakespearean-tragedic narrative of the rise-and-fall of a promising young musician-pioneer in the early ‘Punk’ music movement. Goldberg has written a personal, heartfelt biography (he personally knew the ‘better side’ of Jimmy) that is hard to put down. It’s charming, funny at times but also tragic and thought-provoking. Recommended as an instructional moral fable for all who want to become professional musicians and artists in a global capitalist world.\u003cbr\u003e– V. Vale, publisher of Search \u0026amp; Destroy and RE\/Search magazines (1977 to the present)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hozac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42471759773894,"sku":"hzb015","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1377\/6983\/products\/0028602246_10.jpg?v=1669029193","url":"https:\/\/www.shugarecords.com\/products\/michael-goldberg-wicked-game-the-true-story-of-guitarist-james-calvin-wilsey-new-paperback-book-2022-hozac-books","provider":"Shuga Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}