So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life

After cutting his teeth as a drummer with the musical misfits of his high school, Jake Slichter formed a bond with two other friends that would eventually grow into the band Semisonic. Who could forget the smash single "Closing Time," a runaway hit in 1998 that thrust Jake and his band into the international spotlight and helped them sell over two million albums? But with instant fame came instant musical and personal chaos. So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star is a telling and witty look at what happens just before and during one's fifteen minutes of fame. Jake Slichter takes readers on the step-by-step journey of his evolution from fledgling drummer to globe-trotting performer and proves to be the perfect guide-feisty and humbled-to the inner workings of the music industry and instant celebrity. So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star speaks to all of us who dream again and again of rock superstardom and shows how one kid can go from picking up a pair of drumsticks to picking up a platinum record.Slichter, Jacob is the author of 'So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life', published 2005 under ISBN 9780767914710 and ISBN 0767914716.