An
intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers,
detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s
Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes.
Kid
Congo Powers has been described as a “legendary guitarist and paragon
of cool” with “the greatest resume ever of anyone in rock music." That
unique imprint on rock history stems from being a member of not one but
three beloved, groundbreaking, and influential groups—Nick Cave and the
Bad Seeds, the Cramps, and last but not least, The Gun Club, the wildly
inventive punk-blues band he co-founded.
Some New Kind of Kick begins
as an intimate coming of age tale, of a young, queer, Chicano kid,
growing up in a suburb east of East LA, in the mid-‘70s, exploring his
sexual identity through glam rock. When a devastating personal tragedy
crushes his teenage dreams, he finds solace and community through
fandom, as founder (‘The Prez’) of the Ramones West Coast fan club, and
immerses himself in the delinquent chaos of the early LA punk scene.
A
chance encounter with another superfan, in the line outside the
Whiskey-A-Go-Go to get into a Pere Ubu concert, changes the course of
his life entirely. Jeffrey Lee Pierce, a misfit Chicano punk who runs
the Blondie fan club, proposes they form a band. The Gun Club is born.
So begins an unlikely transition from adoring fan to lauded performer.
In Pierce, he finds brotherhood, a creative voice, and a common cause,
but also a shared appetite for self-destruction that threatens to
overwhelm them both.
Quirky, droll, and heartfelt, with a
pitch-perfect evocation of time and place, and a wealth of richly-drawn
supporting characters, Some New Kind of Kick
is a memoir of personal transformation, addiction and recovery,
friendship and belonging, set against the relentless creativity and
excess of the ’70s and ’80s underground music scenes.
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