At 01:57 PM 7/9/2004 -0700, Brent wrote:
>At lunch, I was reading a bit of the newspaper and it had a review of 
>Jacob Slichter's book that he wrote, following the rise and fall of 
>Semisonic (he was the drummer). A lot of the details are taken from his 
>personal journal accounts, so it's pretty accurate account of all their 
>major label dealings, etc. Apparently, after the success of "Closing 
>Time", they owed their label more than $1 million dollars once their first 
>album had finished its run. The book sounds like a good read. Has anyone 
>read it yet?


When I asked that question here a couple of weeks ago, one follow-up was 
from Anna, saying that she'd asked a week earlier.  (Somehow I'd missed 
that.)  So this makes three--maybe someone will have read it by now!

The excerpt I linked to is still online:

http://citypages.com/databank/25/1229/article12239.asp

Looks like a good read to me.

Randy