Some New Kind Of Kick Kid Congo Powers Chris Campion by Kid Congo Powers, Chris Campion 9780306828041, 9780306831430, 9780306831447, 9780306831454, 0306828049, 0306831430, 0306831449, 0306831457 instant download after payment.

Kid Congo Powers has been described as a “legendary guitarist & paragon of cool” with “the greatest resume ever of anyone in rock music." That unique imprint on rock history stems from being a member of not one but three beloved, groundbreaking, & influential groups—Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the Cramps, & last but not least, The Gun Club, the wildly inventive punk-blues band he co-founded. 

Some New Kind of Kick begins as an intimate coming of age tale, of a young, queer, Chicano kid, growing up in a suburb east of East LA, in the mid-‘70s, exploring his sexual identity through glam rock. When a devastating personal tragedy crushes his teenage dreams, he finds solace & community through fandom, as founder (‘The Prez’) of the Ramones West Coast fan club, & immerses himself in the delinquent chaos of the early LA punk scene.  

A chance encounter with another superfan, in the line outside the Whiskey-A-Go-Go to get into a Pere Ubu concert, changes the course of his life entirely. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, a misfit Chicano punk who runs the Blondie fan club, proposes they form a band. The Gun Club is born. So begins an unlikely transition from adoring fan to lauded performer. In Pierce, he finds brotherhood, a creative voice, & a common cause, but also a shared appetite for self-destruction that threatens to overwhelm them both.  

Quirky, droll, & heartfelt, with a pitch-perfect evocation of time & place, & a wealth of richly-drawn supporting characters, Some New Kind of Kick is a memoir of personal transformation, addiction & recovery, friendship & belonging, set against the relentless creativity & excess of the ’70s & ’80s underground music scenes.