Passing along information re books by rock author Ken Sharp.

Printing this e-mail in its entirety:

Greetings!

Please help me to "Play On"... 

Working on a new album and really excited by our progress but trying to keep it going is a tough haul financially...

Here's how you can help...Come check out my web site, www.ken-sharp.com for a selection of my books and email me at sharpk@aol.com if interested in any of them. These include all three volumes of my sold out "Play On! Power Pop Heroes" volumes, the sold out Cheap Trick book and others.

Many are now officially sold out and but I have a small batch of personal copies and will make them available for what they sold for plus shipping.

I also have a few softback/hardback copies of "Eric Carmen: Marathon Man," a biography I co-penned on Eric, which sells for ridiculous money on ebay; one copy is up for sale at over $900. These are both signed and unsigned by Eric.

All proceeds will go toward offsetting the cost of recording new songs for my album...

I'd be grateful if you'd consider sharing this info with any like minded music fans.

Thanks for all.

Best Regards,

Ken

Cheap Trick mini-playlist 1982-1988.

1. If You Want My Love
2. One On One
3. I Can't Take It
4. Tonight It's You
5. Let Go
6. The Flame
7. Don't Be Cruel

Cheap Trick 1977-1980 playlist

1. Elo Kiddies
2. Downed
3. Clock Strikes Ten
4. Big Eyes
5. Southern Girls
6. Surrender
7. Stiff Competition
8. California Man
9. Heaven Tonight
10. Hello There (Budokan)
11. I Want You To Want Me (Budokan)
12. Ain't That A Shame (Budokan)
13. Dream Police
14. Voices
15. Gonna Raise Hell
16. The House Is Rockin' (With Domestic Problems)
17. Way Of The World
18. Stop This Game
19. Everything Works If You Let It
20. World's Greatest Lover

Sugarland stage collapse tragedy--only the third accident of its kind this summer.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/08/indiana-state-fair-stage-collapse-5-dead-identified-singer-expresses-horror.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stage-collapse-at-indiana-state-fair-kills-four-injures-dozens-20110814

Let's flash back to the article in ROLLING STONE on the Flaming Lips stage collapse:


 "We simply want to know: what are the companies and organizers doing to protect the next act and the next audience?" Dave Frey, [Cheap Trick's] manager, said in a statement. "Every act and every fan ought to be asking the same question when attending an outside musical event."
Other prominent managers, however, insist stages are safe and fans have little to fear at outdoor concerts. "The regulations have become much more difficult. Health and safety have become much more a factor in everybody's budget in the last 10 to 15 years," says Jake Berry, production and technical director for U2's 360 tour. "But some stages can hold up to a freak wind better than others. You can't stop a tsunami in Japan, can you? These are acts of nature."

Three "acts of nature" too many.