Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sound of Los Angeles

by Barney Hoskyns

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The story of LA's music scene, from the days of jazz clubs in the forties to the menace of West Coast rap in the nineties.

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read this when I was 18, fresh out of HS and living in Los Angeles. I don't remember much out if other than not really trusting the author, thinking the stuff was cool, and wanting to read more music biographies in this style.

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FOR MY SON FRED

AND IN MEMORY OF DEREK TAYLOR

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Whenever I hear ‘Heartattack and Vine’, the bruising title track of one of Tom Waits’ best albums, it reminds me of arriving in Los Angeles for the first time thirty years ago.

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