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Lay It on the Line

A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict, and Triumph

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Lay It on the Line

By: Rik Emmett
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From Triumph superstar Rik Emmett comes the thrilling, inspiring story of a life of rock and roll.

While describing the impulse driving his life and work, Rik Emmett explains, "I was never in it for the sex and drugs-ah, but the rock and roll. Creativity was, and still is, my it-the truth I bet my life on. It was also, always, about play. The play's the thing . . ."

Merging memoir, anecdotes, and masterclasses on guitar, songwriting, and the artist's mindset, Lay It on the Line offers insight and perspective into the many roles Rik Emmett took on. "It" was always a parboiling, psychological gumbo: and this book attempts to finally share the recipe.

It also includes the definitive, detailed reasons behind why he walked from Triumph-and came back two decades later.

Rock star, it seems, was a character for Rik Emmett to inhabit . . . a great gig, a catalytic door-opener . . . it was a role that led to other adventures-and these are the stories he's chosen to tell.

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TMI about nothing entertaining , love Rik Emmett, but this was not what I was looking forward to.

TMI about much a do about nothing

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I hated the fact that such a scant part of this book was about Triumph. This was the main reason I bought this book. It’s more about family, business and stuff that sounds like it’s from his music courses. It’s a total disappointment for Triumph fans, a slap in the face.

The lack of Triumph

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Incredibly uninteresting that puts the lie to the description on the cover. TL;DR - he believes he is an artist, he loves his family, undeserving of his wife, Mike and Gil didn't live up to his standards, and he's a fiscally conservative humanist who believes government is bad.

It meanders all over the place, where he's time hopping even within the same chapter. I love Triumph, I was underwhelmed by Rik solo and now perhaps, I know why. The other reviews have it right. Self-indulgent. And the way he dumps all over his bandmates strongly suggesting they didn't put in the work to keep up with his stellar musicianship is frankly offensive. The band is the reason he has a name and he spends a dismissive chapter talking about that part of his life. But boy is he good about setting rules and boundaries. He's in a band and they could only perform Thursday to Sunday so he could be home the rest of the time? How do you properly tour with those kinds of restrictions?

Don't waste your time or money.

Dull

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Boring, and self indulgent . I wanted to hear about his career, not his beliefs had a hard d time concentrating on his ramblings

Hoping for less politics, and more rock. N roll

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Very little about his career. Reads like a self help book. Not what I expected at all.

Back stage pass to nothing

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