Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group

By: Ian F. Svenonius

Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius

Ian F. Svenonius' experience as an iconic underground rock musician - playing in such highly influential and revolutionary outfits as the Make-Up and the Nation of Ulysses - gives him special insight on techniques for not only starting but also surviving a rock 'n' roll group. Therefore, he's written an instructional guide, which doubles as a warning device, a philosophical text, an exercise in terror, and an aerobics manual.

This volume features essays on everything the would-be star should know to get started, such as sex, drugs, sound, group photo, the van, and manufacturing nostalgia. Supernatural Strategies will serve as an indispensable guide for a new generation just aching to boogie.

©2012 Ian F. Svenonius (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Critic reviews

"So much of the allure here is in watching Svenonius skirt absurdity. He's always seemed delighted by the fact that the profound and the preposterous can sound awfully alike, a realization that puts him in line with an avant-garde tradition that stretches back before rock 'n' roll crystallized this fact...Svenonius has the spirit of a long-gone punk past, but his book has more to tell us about rock's here-and-now than about its hereafter. Neither bourgeois nor prestigious, Supernatural Strategies may be the rare book by a rock musician to retain any power or threat." (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Gold

For anyone who has or is currently engaged in playing in a band, this is some essential reading (or listening in the case of audible).
Svenonius is a Rocknroll icon in his own right. His writing and ideas are intellectual, well researched and at times, very witty.
Would recommend to anyone. He’s a good narrater too.