BOOK - I DON'T FIT IN ( THE NERVES & THE BEAT )

BOOK - BY PAUL COLLINS, CHUCK NOLAN, RIC MENCK My Wild Ride Through the Punk and Power Pop Trenches with The Nerves and The BEAT After two long years of painstaking research and development, we present to you, the first major memoir covering the birth of DIY Power Pop, from Paul Collins. From its initial conception as a film script to its re-birth as a full-bore rock & roll revelation, this is one crazy story from beginning to end. Outlining the first National DIY cross-country tour by an unsigned band in 1977, and by default, creating the pathway for the true indie underground network of the 80s to take as a template. It wasn’t even a second thought for Collins and bandmates Peter Case and Jack Lee, but the underground rock & roll world is a better place for it. But until now, the real details of the origins of The Nerves, Breakaways, and The BEAT have eluded most of us, so with this tome of incredible survival stories from the trenches, Paul Collins opens up and reveals a