How to Ru(i)N a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records

by Larry Livermore

Book Overview

Larry Livermore has lived an almost unbelievable life. In these pages he recalls attending the original Woodstock, seeing the Supremes homecoming in early 1960s Detroit, witnessing MC5 at a battle of the bands on a tennis court, and joining the White Panther Party. Of course all of this could not prepare him for an even more regimented and controlled life in his depictions of a cultish Maximum Rocknroll house. While Larry deserves much credit for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0989196348
• ISBN13: 9780989196345
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Don Giovanni Records
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Inside Look into Indie Record Label

Well written, you will find yourself not wanting to put it down, a little juvenile at times and author seems to pick and choose which band members he wants to give us insight into w/ kid gloves a bit, if you want to know what makes Ben Weasel tick you’ll find it here but if you want to know what Matt Freeman’s input was on the Op Ivy break up you’d be hard pressed to find his name mentioned. Overall Larry sticks to giving us a tour of Lookout Records not a tell-all about the bands on Lookout Records, it was a good, tragic and frustrating story all in the span of a decade. If you were there, were buying the Records, love the music or want to know more about what made that Gilman scene tick, this is a great book.