Echoes (Limited Signed Edition (Bookplate Insert))

Signed by Will Sergeant Echoes is the follow up memoir to Bunnyman. Echoes covers the early days of Echo and the Bunnymen through the release of their first albums and first tour. "Sergeant’s acerbic sense of humour in the telling of these tales means the memoir reads as if you’re in the pub with him."—Louder than War This book ‘Echoes’ is the continuing story of my —Will Sergeant, cofounder and guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen— journey in our band, we are learning on the job. The story starts when Sire Records head honcho, the late Seymore Stein, insists we replace our very primitive Drum Machine, the mini pops Jr. AKA Echo, with a real-life and not-in-the-slightest-bit primitive human drummer. We find our drummer in the form of the now deceased and much-missed Pete De Freitas. His baptism of fire was as we were bottled off the stage by Nazi Skinheads. The story continues with the joys and inventive eye-opening studio recording of our first two LPs at Rockfield Studios in the Welsh