Mark Brend

There's a LOT of interesting raw data here, especially about lesser-known performers and composers, but I was disappointed that the book was not better organized and/or copy-edited. There are too many times that the same events are described in different chapters without adding significantly to what had been written previously.

The writer clearly interviewed a lot of people who tried out various electronic gear, whether commercially manufactured or home-made, but there's not much evidence of show more critical thought. The book is too much of a list of events (that's not exactly chronologically or thematically structured) with little sense of which occurrences had influence on contemporaneous or later artists. show less