Oh crap. I hate buying things online.

Does it not have a major distributer because they don't think it'll sell?

Firstly and on a side-topic, I think I'm right in saying that Jon fired Doc because the band were clearly burnt out at the end of the Jersey tour and he wanted to add 70 more shows. This made Jon realise that the welfare of the band was a distant second to world domination as far as Doc was concerned. That was the last straw anyway.

On the subject of this book, I think Jon will love the pictures being in the public domain. He's mentioned many times in interviews that they behaved like a rock band back then but I think people have always had a problem believing it (which, incidentally, is why these pics 'toughen up' the bands' image. Anyone breathing and listening to music in the 80s knows that if you didn't want to be lumped in with REO Speedwagon, you had to have an edge. These pics are Jon's attempt to provide it IMO).

I don't know Jon, I can't begin to verify anything, this is just opinion but I would guess that the pictures are a perfect scenario for him; 25 years ago so he doesn't have to work too hard to explain them ('it was a different time, that's what bands did' etc etc) and he gets a few 'Been there, done that' rock 'n' roll points also. The text of the book is another matter. Until we see it, who knows how the band would feel about it.

Anyone who says they don't know why these pics were even taken is either Amish or naive. As a teenager in the 80s, if RAW magazine had given me a free poster of my favourite band cavorting on a bed with semi-naked chicks I wouldn't have gone back to the newsagents, slammed it on the counter and said 'You can keep that SMUT!' I wouldn't have felt let down or disappointed... I would have wanted to be a rock star so badly I would probably have sold a kidney.

Times change and you won't see a pic of Jon doing this now. But this is Jon at 23 years old, with a record deal, with the stories of The Stones and The Who floating around in his head. Anyone who would judge him on this is frankly a bit highly strung. Anyone who would get upset over it needs to stop following a rock band and join a cult because you clearly have emotional dependancy issues that can't be resolved by 4 guys from Jersey.

Oh... hold the phone Rodney... is JBJ getting a BJ in that one?! Now I'm disgusted... I'd have let the one on the left do it...

Oh FFS. :rolleyes:

Now that it's confirmed that the book is the result of a disgruntled ex-employee who deliberately and vengefully concealed the photos, it's poetic justice that Bozzett should not look foward to cashing in on someone else's moral shortcomings.

I love the smell of vindication in the morning.

Has anyone gotten this book? I was just wondering what your opinion of it is? I have seen some reviews and they seem pretty good. Apparently, the pictures are great. Just wondering what Dry County thinks?

A friend of a friend got it and she said it was all hype and no substance. As far as "drugs" go one story was Jon and Dorothea were suspected of having drugs at an airport and they got full body searched. It's just crap like that that doesn't really amount to a hill of beans and no one is really interested in hearing anyway.

If anyone here got it...please, can you share some pics? :D

In other words, its a bunch of made up crap that you'd see in the likes of the National Enquirer and not to be taken seriously.

"Dirt and not even good dirt" sums it up from what I've heard.