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i've been playing guitar for about ten years and have owned many tab books in that time of which this is certainly the worst.
to start with the tab is actually different to previous published copies which i own, and in places just appears to be wrong. some of the solos for example have been tabed to run over several strings when it is just played on one, making the actual music more difficult to play and disjointed, this difference in positioning appears frequently throughout the book.
it is also written in a non standard format with different notations and fonts unlike anything i have experienced before and this makes it confusing in places and occasionally difficult to distinguish which strings the notes are supposed to be played on. the bass and drum tabs are also mixed in which doesn't make it any clearer, but at least you get more value for money which i can say is the only redeaming feature.
the forewords at the start of each song are usually increadably obvious (the use of palm muting and distortion, like you dont know that already if your in to pantera!) and in places uninformative.
the songs are in alphabetical order not as they are arranged on the respective albums so you have to look up the page number to find the song you want.
the book leaves out some of the best and most difficult songs on both albums (regular people, medicine man, rise, etc)and retains simplistic songs like ... hostile.
pantera are one of my favourite bands and this book is far inferior to previous publications, its more like its been written by a 15 year old for his school project than someone who actually knows what they're doing. at its price its only worth it if you are really desperate and cant get hold of the proper tab anywhere else. i found the standard of this tab to be poor and unacceptable and i sent it back for a refund, which i have not regretted.
a waste of money and an injustice to the music.

I agree with the guy from the UK when he says this was the worst he ever owned. I'm sorry, but the numerical displacement on even the simplest chords was hard enough to decipher. Instead of trying to read the tab, i almost always had to rewrite the tab using a word processor before the tablature became clear enough for me to read. I really can't say that it is wrong, because when i did rewrite/decipher/copy some tab, it was correct. The solo for "This Love", on the other hand, was hardly worth printing. As the author explains, "unlike other songs, intricate fast licks are not presented here. However, play it with emotion while making good use of the wah-wah pedal." This quote, straight from the book, shows that apparently, "good use of the wah-wah" can make up for a lot that was simply not shown. You want to at least not waste time figuring out stuff like that when you spend 25 bucks on a official tab book. (I know it's much cheaper here, but it's what i payed). And, on a good note, this book has some of the most awesome pictures of PanterA in it i've ever seen. the pictures are pretty cool. And finally, this book got the three stars because of it's transcription of "Mouth For War", possibly worth the price of the book itself. A necessity for PanterA fans out there and those like them.

A very well explained book, includes transcription of guitar, plus drums, bass vocal and some other sounds that may appear. Includes comments on every song about the rhytms, weird sounds, vocals, all!

Serious music to listen and play, this book gets all the power in Pantera which sound is best explained by a description they share with no other band: Power Groove (heavy, riff-oriented feel).

You won't regret getting this!

This is not his good stuff. It is marketted fluff using his name. There are some good collections, but don't buy anything by this publisher.

And Fantagraphics is saintly as well.

There were some interesting quotes, mostly from Bruce, but the book came off sounding like someone's term paper. Hope they got an "A."

This title arrived on the shelves not that long before the official Iron Maiden biography, Run To The Hills, was published, and the differences between the two are naturally obvious. Whereas RTTH author Mick Wall had direct access to all present, and many past, Maiden members, the authors of Infinite Dreams had to make do with scouring press clippings, newspapers and magazines (and, daresay, their memories) to source this slender volume.

And they do an admirable job, although they do opinionate more than you may expect for a biography, and that gives the book more of an 'essay on Maiden' feel to it - refreshing in itself, tho unfortunately not entirely unbiased as you may desire.

If you had the choice between this and the official bio, go for the official. However, to get a slice of history, which - thanks to the quotes culled from years of interviews - Infinite Dreams is a winner.

I must say, This is by far the worst tab book I have ever purchased. On top of NOT including the solos, it is very unclear how to play the songs. I have even found a one mistake in the book, and I have only had it one day. I am the biggest Metallica fan you'll ever find, and I am a decent guitarist. This is a horrible book. I have found that all Cherry Lane Music books are disgusting quality. I would definitely recomend you pitch in the extra 3 or 4 dollars and get the other Kill Em All tab book. I can surely say that the other tab book can not remotely be as sh*ty as this. WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.

Hello.

Have you heard Metallica's debut album "Kill 'Em All" yet? You haven't? Well, you better go out and get it then! For those of you that have, you're probably hooked.

This product is the sheet music that goes along with the album with a bonus two songs from Metallica's newest album Garage, Inc.

Question: What's better than listening to "Kill 'Em All"?

Answer: Playing it, of course.

This book is excellent. It features all of the music from "Kill 'Em All" complete with note-for-note transcriptions for the electric guitar (as opposed to the bass guitar). I've only been playing my electric guitar for a couple of months now and I'm only fourteen years old. With no guitar lessons (only the CD to listen to and the sheet music to read), I can proudly play some of the songs pretty well. I got this book for Christmas this year, and after a couple of times of listening to the CD while following along in the book, I learned how the book works.

(In case you have never seen guitar sheet music, it's pretty neat. The songs are divided into little riffs and sections that are labeled and are played in different orders to complete the song. In other words, instead of writing the same riff over and over again, it just says "Play with Rhythm 3." So, you go back to the page that first featured "Rhythm 3" and play that there. Of course, this is how all guitar books are written, but I still find it very neat!)

For those of you who are just starting out on the guitar (like me), this is a good book to choose. It doesn't just contain the guitar chord pictures and diagrams, but it also contains the music in tab form. Tab is short for tableture and is a simplified version of the song. It gives you easier fingerings to help you understand how to play the song, get your rhythm down first, and then work your way up to playing the official chords.

I love this album a lot. I know it's not Metallica's best album, and it certainly isn't my favorite, but you must remember that this was only Metallica's first album. Imagine that! They started out pretty well, huh?

I can probably play "The Four Horsemen" the best. This is one of the better songs in this book. "Motorbreath" and "The Four Horsemen" are the easiest for me. "Jump in the Fire" is also in my "easy" category. Among the hardest songs, in my opinion, are "No Remorse," "Seek and Destroy," "Phantom Lord," and "Metal Militia." "Anesthesia - (Pulling Teeth)" is just one big bass solo, and "Hit the Lights" and "Whiplash" are intermediate.

I don't have "Garage, Inc." yet, so I haven't even tried out "Am I Evil?" or "Blitzkrieg".

Of course, you can't forget one of the things that makes Metallica "Metallica"--the crazy Kirk Hammet riffs. Actually, when this album came out, it wasn't Hammet. It was Dave Mustaine--of Megadeth today. Still, these two lead guitarists are unbelievable. I'm nowhere near ready to tackle their solos, but I still recommend this book. If for no other reason, buy this book to support Metallica! :-D

"This is Spinal Tap: the Official Companion" has some worth to the die-hard Spinal Tap fan, but won't really mean much unless you are a big fan of the famed mockumentary. It has some good points, but overall an unsatisfying book.

The book starts off with a comprehensive timeline of Spinal Tap, followed by a meticulous transcript of the mockumentary, transcripts of the film outtakes, song lyrics ranging from goofy ballads to hard-rock fiascos like "Sex Farm." Finally there is an A-to-Z that lists not only stuff in "This is Spinal Tap," but all the rock bands that influenced it.

One of the problems with the book is the transcript. It's a good transcript (it includes ad-libs, stammers and stuff like that) but still only a transcript. It includes all the words but none of the action, which means you need to have seen the movie to understand anything at all. The song lyrics are pretty well-documented, but have some flaws. What's more, there isn't much background info to them. Why not tell us what's up with the kiddie ballad "All The Way Home"?

The A-Z reference is both tiring and informative. Wading through a sea of rock trivia that is half fiction and half fact can be a headache. But it offers more insights into the cut scenes from "This Is Spinal Tap," not to mention the influences behind it. (For example, Jeanine Pettibone was influenced by Anita Pallenberg as well as Yoko Ono)

It's not bad, but it fails to be good. Die-hard Tap fans may be interested in the lesser-known bits of trivia, and can use the transcript to identify what that drowned-out line was. But beyond that, it isn't a particularly useful guide.

This one's a mixed bag, and ultimately disappointing as an official reference.

While the transcript of the film (complete with stutters and stammers) is still a fun and funny read, it's the parts detailing the dialogue of the outtakes that fans will find most interesting. A lyrics section contains a few rare songs ("Back in Harness," "Just Spell My Name") but does not offer any information on them.

The A-Z portion is written not by the book's timeline & discography scribe Chip Rowe (author of the excellent 'Spinal Tap A to Zed') but instead by British TV/film critic Karl French, who seems to have compiled the list based on whatever source materials were in his house before the deadline. Most of his bibliography is British in nature, thereby ignoring some excellent American magazine interviews (Guitar World, Marshall Law, etc) and their respective anecdotes. While the A to Z section--the meat of the book--still contains some gems on Tap elements and personalities both real and fictional, it could be more logically organized ("Racism: see bass"; the entry for bass contains an obscure Derek conversation about Pakistanis but not, say, Derek and Nigel's thoughts on racism from the actual film), omits some things I was very eager to get the official word on (No mention of how the rare song "Goat Boy" came to be, what its lyrics are, or why it has yet to be released) and is just plain incorrect in some cases (From the entry for "Big Bottom": "I'd like to sink her with my *flesh* torpedo"?).

However, there is enough redeeming content here to make fans want to pick it up--the color plate sections, featuring rare photos, is appreciated, and Michael McKean's all-too-short "prepilogue" introduction is an enjoyable, heartfelt tale about the entire project's origin. More of stuff like that from the people who created Tap and less subjective noise from French would have made this "companion" not only "official" but comprehensive as well.

This is a great book for the price. The written history is fascinating, but there are holes if you are interested in post-1950 JD tractors. An annoying characteristic of the book is the duplication of photographs of the same tractor. Overall, I recommend it for tractor enthusiasts.

My name is shane fry and I need to know more about the hercules engine in my grandpas 1939 cletrac. Can anyone help me in this area.

This book's editor's idea of "Heavy Rock" seems to be somewhat hazy.The book covers mostly Heavy Metal Bands,but expands to other genre music as well.It covers a lot of Punk/Indie bands & some sixties rock/psychedelic bands that don't fit under the Heavy Rock banner.That said,this volume is as informative as the rest of the series & worth buying,unless you are a H.Metal purist

This book is obviously derived from the factory Ford manuals, but in an effort to condense the information into a smaller book, the publishers left a lot out, crammed it all together with smallish type and poorly reproduced illustrations, and made it difficult to read. Overall it's a poor substitute for the OE manual. I do find it useful as a companion to the factory manuals, however. I can take this one out into the barn, use it as a quick reference for procedures I have already reviewed at length in the more detailed factory manual, not worrying if I smear grease on it. That fact, combined with it's relatively low cost (especially compared to the factory manual) allows me to give it a higher score than I think it really deserves. If you are thinking of this as a stand-alone manual, I'd give it only two stars and recommend finding an original Ford manual.

This is not the best nor the worst book one will read on the subject. It is worth the money but will leave some wanting more. Still for the price it is a good buy. There are a number of good photos and facts in the book.