This is really a memoir set within the context of music and musician appreciation. Almond spans his life from a Styx-infused childhood in which he was a crappy piano student to being a teenager trying to get laid to Toto's ("I Bless the Rains Down in)Africa" to his early gigs as a music critic and to marriage and fatherhood with someone he describes as a fellow "Drooling Fanatic" or DF for short.
Almond writes with his usual insightful and incisive wit, which will appeal to drooling Almond fanatics. He thoroughly examines his love for music and for some of the artists who make it, including a laugh-out-loud-funny meeting with mancrush Bob Schneider.
I'm not familiar with many of the artists Almond mentions because I'm a Big Dork and not a Drooling Fanatic. It didn't matter. It was still compelling reading. Even when he's dissing (though still screwing) a potential girlfriend for knowing all the words to Air Supply songs, the whole thing reads like a love letter to rock and roll from a devoted (if slightly stalkery) suitor.
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