Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock n Roll

English | Publisher: Lyons Press, 2012 | epub, pdf (conv.) | 304 pages | 6 MB
A classic underdog story about a local band that almost hits the big time.
Everyone knows the price of fame. Hitless Wonder measures the price of obscurity. What happens when you chase a dream into middle age and, in doing so, risk losing the people you love?

Every band chases a dream. This one can’t stop.

Years after getting signed—and dropped—by Epic Records and watching their more famous peers call it quits, Joe Oestreich and his band, Watershed, keep climbing into the Econoline and touring mop bucket bars. But Joe can’t help but wonder: Are he and his bandmates—torn between the lure of the road and the call to finally settle down—admirable or pathetic? Successes or failures? And most importantly, in their quixotic struggle to live out a dream, do they risk losing the people they love?