I saw it at the local library, picked it up, read it last night.
Dunno. Kinda meh. I'm sure it was a nice walk down memory lane for Morris, reliving and telling of a bunch of personal experiences, but it wasn't particularly inclusive to the reader. I mean, most rock history books are either revved up namedrop experiences throughout ("
I partied with other famous/more famous people than myself!"), or insider-info of the behind-the-scenes of the music/touring/groupie/whatever industry. Usually with a little score-settling / right-wronging opportunities taken while the author has the mic.
This had a little of each, but other than smoking crack with David Lee Roth and poking a toe halfheartedly a little at Ginn, there wasn't much in the fireworks controversy department. Shade was limited to a few "Rollins was the not-terribly-impressive
fourth singer" leitmotif, and "Greg isn't that nice a person." Which is ok, because I wasn't looking for "What nasty dirt does X have on Y?"
The industry angle interests me, but we had to get 230 or so pages into it until we got to a little "here's what it was like dealing with the big record labels and politics in the 90's" stuff.
Mostly the book was composed of the type of stories that most of us probably have from our youth:
e.g. in high school and college years, you/a friend/someone you knew drank/smoked/injected so much he/she fought/threw up/crashed a car/stole something/did something stupid but entertaining. Entertaining enough to laugh it up with your buddies that you were
there with back in the day, but... you've got to be a good storyteller to make an audience care about those 80's wacky hijinks that were personal to YOU. Ahem. You know, like Rollins does when he's doing spoken word comedy.
I'm not a huge Jerks fan, but think they're a solid band, love Keith's stage presence when I've seen them live (other than his too long political rants), but... I guess he's the guy with the microphone so he's gonna say (and write) what's important to
him. It just wasn't very important to
me.