Jim Carroll Band
Jim Carroll Band, New York, NY, USA
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Jim Carroll Band
Though he is more renowned as a poet and author, few acts in the history of rock have as powerful a musical presence as Jim Carroll. His music burst upon the scene during the punk era, with a amazing record called Catholic Boy, filled with memorable songs which provide a combination of hard rock and lyrical depth unequaled in the annals of popular music. The band's live shows had a manic energy all their own - Carroll emitted a primal glow from the stage as he delivered the tribulations of his life.
By the time the Jim Carroll Band came into existence, Jim was already well known in the underground art culture. A book compiled from his teenage journals, The Basketball Diaries, told the story of his life in sports, heroin, and the city that he loved. That book later became a major movie in 1995 with the role of Jim played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Carroll's poetry has been praised by the likes of Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. His life and times read like a epic journey: he worked for Andy Warhol, lived with Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, recorded with Lou Reed and Pearl Jam, his band was "discovered" by Keith Richards, and he actually held the microphone for the recording of the Velvet Underground's Live at Max's Kansas City. He continues to write, occasionally doing live readings to sellout crowds, and his sphere of influence in that field is enormous, his body of work studied by scholars and taught in colleges.
But in contrast with all this prestige in one realm, the Jim Carroll Band never received its full due as a force in rock music. Yes they got critical acclaim and the song People Who Died is occasionally found on lists of the top songs of the 80s, but overall, Carroll's music is remarkably unknown to the masses, considering the musical force and passion of his songs. The vibrant, urgent colors of his lyrics were probably too explicit, too brutally honest for a music business that at the time wanted to sell punk rock using far more simple terms. Nonetheless, the music of Jim Carroll effortlessly withstands the test of time, and the vision and wicked gravity within his songs make for some of the most vital rock ever created
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A site about the legacy of Jim Carroll (catholicboy.com)
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