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Chronicle Books Six String Heroes: Photographs of Great Guitarists by Neil Zlozower.

In a career spanning more than 40 years, legendary rock photographer Neil Zlozower has documented an amazing who's-who of the most influential and dynamic guitarists from the late 1960s to today. The book Six-String Heroes collects live, candid, and studio shots of 150 of the greatest guitar players in rock, metal, punk, blues, and beyond, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Slash, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Zakk Wylde, Dimebag Darrell, Tom Morello, Carlos Santana, Les Paul, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Edward Van Halen, Angus Young, and many more. Featuring a foreword by Steve Vai, this book also includes text from unpublished interviews with the guitarists by music journalist Steven Rosen. Six-String Heroes is a celebration of the music, the players, and the instrument.. ...details

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Chronicle Books Motley Crue: A Visual History from 1983-2005 by Neil Zlozower.

Motley Crue's gleeful glam debauchery and unstoppable anthems have made them metal gods, selling over 72 million album copies worldwide and landing their band biography The Dirt on bestseller lists around the country. This hardcover book, Mötley Crüe: A Visual History: 1983-2005 is the first photographic history of the band. Legendary rock photographer Neil Zlozower's images capture the band's rise from their breakthrough album Shout at the Devil through rock 'n' roll excesses and follows them with the intimate candor of a close friend. In hundreds of photographs and stories from the band and those close to them, Mötley Crüe is revealed onstage, backstage, on tour, hanging out, and in the studio. This book is a must-have for every Mötley Crüe fan with exclusive photos and full history of one of rock's most iconic, powerful, and controversial bands.. ...details

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Chronicle Books Van Halen: A Visual History from 1978-1984 by Neil Zlozower.

From their eponymous 1978 debut through their colossal 1984 album (they've sold over 75 million albums worldwide), Van Halen rewrote all the rules. Very few rocked (or partied) harder. Photographer Neil Zlozower first met the band in 1978, worked with them on Van Halen II, and soon became their friend while hanging out in L.A. and hitting the road on tour with them. The hardcover book Van Halen: A Visual History: 1978-1984 collects more than 250 backstage, candid, and full rock-out photos of the all-powerful, spandexed, high-kicking, guitar blazing, stadium-shaking, original Van Halen lineup. Accompanying Zlozower's amazing photos are an introduction about his wild ride with Van Halen, a foreword by David Lee Roth, and testimony from the rock pantheon paying homage to the band, including members of Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Judas Priest, KISS, Mötley Crüe, and more.. ...details