Too Fast for Love: Heavy Metal Portraits

By: Yellen, David

Book Overview

Introduction by Spin columnist Chuck Klosterman. Rocking on tour with America's heavy metal superstars - Kiss, Poison, Iron Maiden, Slaughter, Ted Nugent, Dokken, and Cinderella - photographer David Yellen captures the classically trashy style of the headbangers, metalheads, burnouts, and self-styled fanatics, tailgating in anticipation of the show or hanging by the backstage door hoping to make it to the promised land of the bands' dressing rooms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576872157
• ISBN13: 9781576872154
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

This book rawks!!!

I feel like people in reviews have been a little harsh on this book. Yeah, I could go to a show and see some of the same crowd that's pictured in this book. But I am not going to see every sweet detail like the Black Hills Gold Jewelry and the awful fake nails and the hideous tattoos. It makes me glad that the tattoos I started getting 15 years ago aren't as bad as they could be. I can flip through this book and stare. I'm not going to trail someone at a show and do that. And I can show my friends the really awesome pictures that no verbal discription could do justice. But the coolest thing is that I feel connected to these people (I just have better hair and fashion sense and....). I mean, we go to the same shows. I just won't make any photo books for looking fabulously hessian. I recommend this book. If you're a butt rocker at heart, you've got to love it.

Rock On!

This is a classic case of a picture is worth a thousand words. Each person you see has a story that you come up with in your own mind. My particular favorite is the guy with the tee shirt that says, "Chicks dig scrawny white guys." It's also impressive to think that may of the ladies spent lots of time to make themselves look the way they appear in the book. Not so much for the guys. Some ink, torn up jeans, Marlboro Reds and a torn concert tee and you're ready to rock.