Genius Books Reviews

I managed to secure a hardback copy [29/300] which took a long time to arrive what with Covid and printing problems but the wait was worth it. In Australia TMQ boots weren't the easiest releases to find but I had a few and my fellow music lovers also had bought there choices so we had the catalog pretty well covered. but after reading the book I am finding out that not all was what we thought. Some low bastard had bootlegged the bootlegs.HA.HA. I have since bought another copy for my son who lik...

I absolutely love this book. It tells a fascinating true-life story about the people and events behind the shadow world of early rock music bootleg records. I was riveted throughout. As well, the book is lavishly illustrated with color photos of every TMQ release, along with original tape reels, inserts, and other memorabilia. My only small quibble is that the book’s physical dimensions are a bit ungainly and difficult to hold while reading. But this is a small matter, considering the immense hi...

As a college student very interested in the music evolving in the late sixties, it was great having several record stores in the University district to peruse on a regular basis. It must have been late sixties when I started noticing these interesting records with a pig stamped on the cover, with the caption of "Trademark of Quality" on them. A number of artists I was interested in began appearing on these records, with live performances or songs previously unavailable. The quality of some were...

The book was a joy from start to finish. Detalied information about the individual Trade Mark of Quality releases as well as the fascinating story of this classic bootleg company. I started purchasing bootlegs in 1978 and the book sent me back to the joy of my first collecting years. I initially reacted to the price for a paperback book but when I saw the book this reservation evaporated instantly. The quality of the printing and the high-end paper makes this a value for money purchase. Highl...

It was just good to read the story although dreadful to hear how these children were treated and so frustrating that it kept going on, and the vain attempts to get help. It is great that it was finally all exposed but too late when you think of traumatized, helpless children and their ruined lives. Those priests are absolutely evil. I hope the book and all the exposure will help people not to trust so called celibate priests, bishops, cardinals, etc, and to listen to their children. It is my...

"Stolen Moments The Photography of Harold Sherrick" is a first class collection of outstanding images of many of the great artists of the music world. Sherrick's philsophy is to grab every opportunity to capture a subject because seconds later the moments are gone. The book has excellent production values from thick glossy paper to fine binding. The photographs themselves are presented to best advantage in both black and white and color images. Sherrick also gives background information on all ...

It is nice to finally get the behind-the-scenes story of these albums. They offered Dylan, Stones, Beatles, Zeppelin, and anyone else they could get. There is a live Janis Joplin Hawaii concert that exists nowhere else, so ... there is something to be said that they were also capturing history of an era too soon gone. And for my money, they changed things in the process in two ways: They put a crowbar in the tightwads and forced many of these out on the market, like Dylan's Basement Tapes, ...

I'm still reading it in small bits, it is hard for me to read all at once. I have a personal connection to this story. I'm still trying to piece together the violent child sex crimes that happened to me by the men who were part of Joe DeAngelo's group of criminals who assisted him. Joe DeAngelo didn't get away with everything and win on his own. He had a lot of people who helped him. Two of the criminals who assisted him lived with me as a child. The man with the bull tattoo on his left fo...