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Life of a Roadie - The Gypsy in Me

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Reviews: "I got the book and will be taking it on my flight to London...So cool, can't wait man..." - Brian Ray, Guitarist for Paul McCartney "Ronnie, You did a damn fine job on the manuscript...I wish you much success with this... and I do hope I get an autographed copy" - Joe Frank, of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds (PLAYBOY RECORDS) "Ronnie, You have a prodigious ability to call up old memories. Fashioning those memories into a narrative and drawing conclusions about what they mean and what you learned as a result is quite an achievement of contemplation and introspection." - Will Lyman, narrator FRONTLINE (PBS Television) Synopsis: In all of Rock 'n Roll, it was the least of all cool jobs, but everyone who did it, wanted no other job: Roadie. No show ended or started without them; they were there hours before and hours after a concert. It paid minimum wage with no benefits. But if you toured with the right group, you were dead in the middle of history. Few Roadies write their history, their personal stories, their pain and joy. But in Ronnie Rush's book, we see a slice of Rock history that does not try to bridge all of rock 'n roll music; the words place a small stone in the foundation of the growth of one group's life and travels. (Ross du Clair, Chief Engineer, Clear Channel Radio, Sacramento, CA) I've been to hell and back and shook hands with the devil, and I'm still walking tall without the smell of smoke upon me. -Ronnie Rush This book is about my experiences in the music business, starting from when I was a roadie with all the experiences I had with the artists I worked for and continuing through my times in radio until my retirement. The title, Life of a Roadie: the Gypsy in Me, describes how it was that early on, even while growing up, I had a gypsy-like personality that gave me the capacity to travel the United States. Life of a Roadie also tells about how I grew up and who I am, the history and personality that drove me to be able to handle the road and the success I experienced. I'll be taking the reader on a true-life journey that was mostly brought on by luck, circumstance, experience, and personal drive to succeed. There are three things I have always told people when I was approached and asked for advice from many of those who wanted to be a Roadie, while I was in the music business: Never give up, never give up, never give up! On the subject of area authors, former radio host Ronnie Rush recalls his years as a roadie to some of rock 'n' roll's legendary bands in "Life of a Roadie: The Gypsy in Me.- Al Pierleoni, Sacramento Bee Ronnie turned to the written word and wrote his first book, a memoir of his life entitled Life of a Roadie: The Gypsy in Me. He sketches out his time on the road as a roadie in what he calls "the least cool of all jobs" ...the roadie. Ronnie went on to write a second book, Walk a Mile in My Shoes, which is more of a philosophical reflection on his life's experiences.-Brook Williams, The Social Publication: A local Sacramento Magazine *Sacramento News & Review - Local News Paper (copy & paste) www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content/last-of-the-boss-jocks/12579753

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When I wrote my first book, which I thought would be my one and only one I had plan on writing, came about through my experience from watching the artists over the years as they were inspired to write, gave me a "window" into the knowledge of how and when to move on these impulses, for lack of a better word. I knew that these rare moments of impulses must be captured immediately, or they would be lost forever. One morning about 3 am I got these impulses to get up and start writing.Just what the inspiration was driving me to even get up from a deep sleep, which at the very moment I knew the difference between the sleepy me, from the inspiration to write down what I was feeling. I guess to describe this "inspiration" is like when you climb a mountain and reach the top and look out over the view of where you just came from.That inspiration [feeling] is the same that I felt to get up out of bed and write down on paper. The raw written word became about 20 pages, a base from which I would work from that eventually (two years later) would become 245 pages and my book, and six months with my editor, bringing the page count to 272 pages.I think had I not been in the company of such talented musicians over my tenure as a Roadie, I would not have been able to follow through on writing and bring the writing to a level of a book, my one and only book. Other writers that continue on that path of writing, whether fiction or nonfiction, may have their own indicator of how and when to write.I am glad I was able to fulfill my desire to tell my story about the road, the musicians I worked for, and how it was possible to reach the heights I did by working for a world-wide known recording act, which they themselves inspired the people that listened to their music on the radio, in concert, and at home on their own playing devices.Being a Roadie, and having been in and around the world of music, and musicians, enabled me to move forward and eventually through hard work, rise above the pits of the abyss and become not only a professional Roadie but work for those that had hits on the radio.My first book is a mix of the original Rocky movie and the movie, It's a Wonderful Life with actor Jimmy Stewart, which is woven throughout the book.As I look back on those years and even now, I had no idea that what I was living through would become for me a legacy, my book, Life of a Roadie, the Gypsy in me, and my sequel Walk A Mile in My Shoes.