Can – I Want More
£17.00
No other band has done what Can did. Walk on stage with nothing planned and improvise for hours with the audience in raptures. This was about half a century ago but their popularity persists with music sales much greater now than when the band was actually working. This is because a whole new demographic has discovered this amazing group of musicians online. Today, there is only one surviving member, keyboard player Irmin Schmidt.
I Want More is the inside story of probably the most influential band of our time as told by the only person who could tell it. Former live sound mixer, lyric writer and close friend of the band, Peter Gilmour.
What went on in the band’s studio in Cologne.
Uproarious events on concert tours, at gigs, between band members and in the changing room.
The making of the hit single I Want More by a band that didn’t make singles.
Includes stories never heard before with David Bowie, Brian Eno, Rebop Kwaku bah, Nico, Phil Collins, Tim Hardin, John Martyn, Eric Burdon, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others.
Psychedelia, krautrock, avant-garde, experimental, instant composing, improvisation and other great stories from the Can universe. This book has been described by various readers as ‘funny, shocking, nostalgic, interesting and thought-provoking.’
Peter Gilmour worked with Can for a number of years in the mid-seventies. He is credited with the lyrics of I Want More and all the other tracks on the album Flow Motion. He also wrote the lyrics for many other Can tracks and was heavily involved in the studio on a regular basis.
Peter has traveled extensively, lived on a kibbutz, owned businesses, written books and hypnotised celebrities. These days he is an author, hypnotist, therapist, speaker and inventor of Psychosensory techniques for helping people to be happy and achieve great things. Peter is the founder of Pete’s Mental Gym, a leading resource for athletes and others seeking to improve performance levels.