What others are saying about Getting in Tune
“It’s obvious from page one that the book you’re
reading has been written by someone who has lived the life. It’s
Trott’s own personal experiences that enable him to so perfectly
capture what it feels like to be in a band. This is one of those
music books that is about as necessary to any book collection as
[Led Zeppelin’s] Houses of the Holy album is to any album collection.
Yes, I’m that serious. Anyone who has ever used music to help pull
them through the darker days of youth will find a piece of them spelled
out in Getting in Tune. A must read for every music lover.”
“Good gigs and bad gigs, girlfriends and groupies, poseurs and punks:
Getting in Tune will ring deliciously true if you’ve been
in a band—and deliver a rare glimpse behind the curtain if you’ve
ever longed to be. Crank up the volume and enjoy Roger Trott’s wild
rock & roll ride.”
—Kathi Kamen Goldmark, author of And My Shoes Keep Walking
Back to You, and founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders
“Getting in Tune is an honest and energetic story about one musician’s
crisis as he suffers at the hands of ambivalent bandmates while in
pursuit of his dreams.”
—Mike Lankford, author of Life in Double Time: Confessions
of an American Drummer
“This novel from former music critic Trott tells the tale of fictional
mid-1970s California rockers the Killjoys, who travel to a rundown
hotel in Washington State to chase their dreams of musical superstardom.
High school dropout Daniel Travers is a self-confessed Pete Townshend
junkie, daydreaming about rock stardom, when he gets a call from
a promoter who wants his band to follow in the footsteps of musical
legends Jimi Hendrix and Heart by playing the Mai Tai Hotel. Travers’s
band mates, including lead singer Mick (no coincidence there) and
henpecked bassist Rob, warily agree to the gig. However, they arrive
to find the hotel is a Hell’s Angels hangout and an incubator for
plenty of alcohol- and drug-related trouble. When the group’s week-long
run comes to an end, they are offered an even better gig, but at
what cost?”
— review from
Publishers Weekly