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He rented a cottage in Spiddal, a remote fishing village in County Galway in the famously musical west of Ireland, and fully immersed himself there in traditional song, through sessions and records. For Scott, that sense of Celtic continuity stretched beyond Ireland itself.
One thing he learned from records—the Celtic music he heard was as much Scottish as Irish. Now I heard it anew, and the music I was in love with was the music of my own ancestors. When the band relocated to Spiddal adding some traditional musicians along the way, including international-star-in-waiting Sharon Shannon , it took on a new character. Scott recalls this period as a sort of pinnacle of his music career. He found personal rewards in playing music rooted in an age-old tradition and in no way yoked to the contemporary pressures and demands of the rock music industry.
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I was a singer and musician, not a rock star. Adventures of a Waterboy, written entirely in first person present tense, is the story of how Scott learned to share that music in his head and grow it into something larger.
Fans of The Waterboys will enjoy reading about how the initial band came together, and the variations through different records, as the the meaning and context of each song becomes clear. Even as I vacillated the music kept evolving with new sounds and players entering our orbit, like Vinnie Kilduff and his Irish pipes.
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Those interested in rock and roll or traditional Celtic music in general will take pleasure out of reading the passages when Scott got himself invited to hang out with the Patti Smith Band, or his dalliances with other musicians like Bono, Bob Dylan, members of De Dannan, The Pogues, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Robert Plant, and so on. There are plenty of names dropped through the book.
Scott is, above all else, a writer, with an intuitive sense of words that matches his musical capability.
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Reading this book leaves the reader with the sense of being privy, not only to a story about what happened with a particular person through a particular period of time, but an exploration of the meaning of the creative process in its broadest sense. And it s continued ever since.
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As a teenager in Scotland, Mike Scott played in punk and garage bands, hitchhiked to see Bob Dylan play, and scammed his way into Patti Smith s inner circle during an eye-opening weekend in London. In Scott travelled to Ireland to spend a week with Wickham and ended up staying for six years.
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During that time he developed a deep interest in roots and folk music, resulting in The Waterboys best-selling album, Fisherman s Blues. After scaling the heights of success and moving the band to New York, he followed another fascination and went to live in the Findhorn spiritual community in Northern Scotland.
Adventures Of A Waterboy is an evocative memoir by one of the great British songwriters of the past four decades. It is an honest and revealing work, by turns heartfelt and funny, that tells the story of a cocky Scot with a sound in his head and his lifelong efforts to reproduce that sound a story that runs from teenage fandom to international stardom, from Scotland to New York City and beyond.