Welcome to distortionthebook. These pages are finally being updated after several years... Please look around and please visit Stephen's new site www.livingjelly.com
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| "It's true most amps sound better at volumes loud enough to fray the edge of notes with the subtle distortion that is to electric guitars what make-up is to a drag queen of a certain age. Not accidentally, as manufacturers in the late fifties and early sixties raced to design equipment with less and less distortion, guitarists turned up louder and louder to subvert their efforts. Nor are guitarists alone in this desire to strain." Marc Ribot, Arcana: Musicians on Music |
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| Distortion is a novel by Stephen Beachy
This site offers either an invitation to read it, or additional layers of information to those who are already readers of the book; for information about Stephen's other writing (The Whistling Song, Some Phantom/No Time Flat, essays on the Amish, Ascher/Straus, experimental sex writing, the gay gene, evolution, or everybody's favorite truckstop child prostitute "I'm not a fuckin hoax!" JT LeRoy, go to LIVINGJELLY |
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