RADIO LEGEND LOU BRUTUS TO RELEASE FIRST BOOK THIS SPRING
SONIC WARRIOR: MY LIFE AS A ROCK N ROLL REPROBATE RELEASES APRIL 14, 2020
BOOK FEATURES A FOREWORD BY COREY TAYLOR OF SLIPKNOT
Lou Brutus is a music industry legend and one of the
planet’s ultimate music fans. He lives the dream of millions by
traveling the earth, attending concerts, and interviewing rock stars. He
has spent his life blasting tunes on the radio, becoming the first to
play all of your favorite bands and gaining access to literally
thousands of music events.
There is no one in the media who has attended more live concerts or conducted more on-site interviews than Lou.
Sonic Warrior: My Life as a Rock N Roll Reprobate (Tales of Sex, Drugs and Vomiting at Inopportune Moments) is
a collection of insane-but-true stories from his storied career. Each
chapter is a separate tale that careens around his 40+ years of covering
concerts, interviewing music’s biggest stars and influencing
generations of radio listeners.
Starting with the first show he attended (Black Sabbath at New York
City’s Madison Square Garden in December 1976, where he threw up Boone’s
Farm Strawberry Wine all over his older sister’s boyfriend) and
continuing to the present day (where he doesn’t puke as much).
Stops along the way include Live Aid in Philadelphia (where he threw up
on the entire crowd from a helicopter), the Arctic (where he didn’t
throw up on anyone but did get in a moshpit with the native Inuit
villagers as Metallica performed a song about sodomizing a goat), Live
Earth in London (where he chugged ale with Spinal Tap’s
“Stonehenge” dwarfs and almost threw up), and the New Jersey Turnpike
(where the tour bus he was traveling in ran over a guy, which is much worse than throwing up).
Whether having his life energy drained through the palm of his hand by
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, watching cocaine get snorted off a
stripper’s ass in Pantera’s dressing room, or drooling in his own lap
after smoking some kind of mutant death weed with Snoop Dogg, Brutus
gives a hilariously unvarnished look at the realities of the music
industry from his fly-on-the-wall, “I’m just the guy here to interview
the band” vantage point.
The book also features a foreword by his friend Corey Taylor, Grammy
Award winning singer for Slipknot and Stone Sour, as well as an original
illustration for each chapter by artist Alan MacBain.
The book is being published by Rare Bird Books in Los Angeles and is currently available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and RareBirdBooks.com.
ABOUT LOU BRUTUS:
Lou Brutus is the most influential and respected Rock
Radio host of the last quarter century. However, when asked what he does
for a living he simply answers, “I’m a professional music fan.” Lou has
attended over three thousand music events around the world and
interviewed a veritable Who’s Who of the recording industry. Brutus has
been the first to introduce the world to an incredible array of artists
including Slipknot, Disturbed, Godsmack, Avenged Sevenfold, Sevendust
and countless others. He is also an accomplished photographer and sings
in a couple of crazy bands — one of which has gotten him death threats.
If he sells enough copies of this book, he will buy a KISS pinball
machine.
Brutus lives outside Washington, DC with his family, including Darla the
Wonder Dog, subsisting on a diet of black coffee, rock ‘n’ roll, and
tinnitus.
