Neil Finn--Once Removed

By Neil Finn

A collection of things seen on Neil Finn's first solo tour: the speed, the landscapes, venues and travel. It is also the vehicle for his unashamedly intimate, often amusing but always honest thoughts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860742971
• ISBN13: 9781860742972
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Sanctuary Pub Ltd
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Try Reading This

Without a doubt, Neil Finn is one of the most talented, and under-appreciated songwriters of our time. If you are already a Finn Fan, this book will serve as a tool to give you more insight into the man, his life, and his music. If you're not a fan already, Neil's words, along with Mark Smith's beautiful photographs, may very well make you want to hear the music.

Want to know Neil?

If you like to get into the heads of your favorite muscians, and Neil Finn is one of them - then you need this book. The pictures are great, but the commentary from Neil is what makes it worth it. When you read it you can hear Neil saying these things. There are great little stories about his family and tour life during the "Try Whistling This" tour. You just get to know Neil and his family a little bit more. It's nice to see that he is a real person. This is a must for any Neil Finn fan.

Life on the Road with Neil

This book takes you inside the Try Whistling This tour with Neil Finn. It shows him as a musician and family man. Neil opens up and gives us a look inside his mind. The pictures have a subtle beauty to them. They show Neil as he really is, sleeping on his wife's shoulder, or playing chess on the bus as it speeds by America. You see that touring and interaction through music are as much a part of his life as breathing. This is a deep book and well worth getting for any fan of Split Enz, Crowded House, and Neil Finn. There have been other books done about Neil and previous bands, but this is the only one done from his point of view. If you want to know Neil more as a person than a "celebrity" buy this book.

Save A Spot For Me On The Tourbus

An incredible & insightful pictorial view into the 'Try Whistling This' tour. Seemingly trivial American scenery takes on fresh paint through the camera lens of a foreign eye, and we, the readers, feel like we did the tour with the band. After finishing the book, I wish I had. Oh well...maybe next time.

Once Reviewed

Once Removed by Neil Finn and Mark Smith is a photographic and literary journal of sorts created during and after the tour for Neil's first solo album, Try Whistling This. I think one of the reasons I've been a fan of Neil's for so long is because he isn't your typical rock star. He's down to earth, makes music for the sake of making music and loves his family. These traits come through in his music and now in this book. The photo-grapher, Mark Smith, is also a friend of the family. I love how the pictures taken could have been taken by any one of us, in the sense that they show what you see on the road. Giant concrete buildings, firework warehouses and strangers in the same frame as you. There is minimal glamour. Neil and Mark have shown us a bit of what touring is really like, not just all fancy hotels and sparkling champagne. They have also shown us it entails lonliness, boredom and doubt. It's not a depressing book, don't get me wrong, some of the photos are quite amusing and wierd, and I love that! But as an intelligent fan of a respectable musician, I appreciate honesty. I also appreciate Neil sharing his personal thoughts and experiences. Some made me want to cry, swell up with pride and giddiness and, at parts, feel some shame. Neil has always been an intimate person and did not have to make this book. He could just take the money from the records and run but he doesn't. He's a creative person who now has another outlet to express himself. Truly not the typical rock star.