Ok I was just browsing the net and saw an article in which was stated that Maroon 5 published their book "Midnight Miles" on August 10, 2006.

I really don't know how I haven't seen this before :o :o so I'm wondering if anyone has this book :teresa: :cry:

Here's the link where you can take the look of the pics :cheer:

 

Link

 

And here's the description of the book

 

When vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, bass-player Mickey Madden and drummer Ryan Dusick formed their first rock band in the mid-90s they could only dream of playing the big venues of their musical heroes. But ten years later they have been fated as one of the biggest bands of the decade with a 6-time platinum selling album, four top ten hits and numerous Brit and Grammy nominations.

 

In Maroon 5: Midnight Miles the band take fans behind the scenes, documenting their hard-fought rise to fame and their new life on the road supporting the acts they idolized as jobbing musicians and playing the big arenas they once dreamed of.

 

 

With over 200 black & white and colour photos, many never-before-published, and a no-holds-barred account of the rock 'n' roll life, Midnight Miles is a must-have music biography for Maroon 5 fans everywhere.

 

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Edited April 21, 200817 yr by Irena

:angry: They don't upload it for free downloading but i'll still try to find it :kink:

Please do :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

 

I'm thinking of trying to ask for it in the bookstores but I doubt they have it :cry:

 

I would like to have the original :wub:

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Maroon 5 - Belvedere Vodka Sponsors the Maroon 5 Book Launch of "Midnight Miles" - Los Angeles - August 10, 2006

 

 

I found this btw :heehee:

Great :yahoo: :yahoo:

 

My favourite drink :naughty:

I've heard about this in the past, haven't been interested in it though. Reading isn't my thing and it sounds more like a tour diary than an actual book.

I love reading and it sounds like it could be interesting :cheer: I would really like to have it :(

i would like to have it too even if it's a tour diary :(

 

But the only offer that internet can present is buying that i don't usually do :kink:

I know :( And I never bought anything over the internet and I don't like giving my credit card number away :blink:

A short section which I found online earlier :D

 

The following is an excerpt of Levine's writings (including his unusual formatting) in "Midnight Miles":

 

I figure, why not just spout out my real emotions as they come? I'm sure my words will be properly edited and chopped so that I sound coherent and articulate. Anyway, I ... just can't believe this moment is actually upon me.

contributed to writing two number-one hits.

have two new siblings (a brother, Sam, and a sister, Liza).

fell in love.

fell out of love.

won a Grammy.

lost an aunt and an uncle. (Marjorie Williams and Jack Cooper, two people who made indelible impressions on my life in almost completely opposite ways.)

became a relatively well-adjusted adult.

am plagued with that overwhelming pressure of delivering it all again.

have never been more excited, turned on, and energized about life.

am extraordinarily lucky and grateful for the amazing life I've been given.

feel things more than ever.

lost a drummer, but, hopefully, not a friend.

have grown weary of politics and try to avoid them at all costs.

traveled and seen a pretty substantial chunk of the world.

watched the world around me expand.

continue to be a sponge.

continue to try to open my mind more everyday.

have an unbelievable group of friends, my extended family.

(They know who they are.)

got a golden retriever named Frankie who is one of the best creatures in the world.

 

In his section of "Midnight Miles," Dusick explains what happened to him on the road:

 

When we returned from Europe to start our first full-length headlining tour of the States, everything came to a head. I was utterly exhausted and jet-lagged to an unreasonable degree, yet our first single was finally starting to take off and ... our schedule only intensified. We played three sold-out nights at the House of Blues, with TV appearances early each day, and by the end of the third show, my right arm was shaking so hard I was incapable of signing my own autograph. By the middle of the tour, exhaustion, intense pain in my right arm, and subsequently deteriorating coordination playing the drums rendered me unable to continue. There we were, finally beginning to experience the success for which we had worked and dreamed about so long, and I couldn't keep up. Before I took my first break from touring, I lived with the daily anguish of knowing that it was just a matter of time before my body would give out on me. Every show was a rush of adrenaline and pain, excitement and agony.

 

I finally went home for a week to rest, flying in our good friend, Ryland Steen, to take my place for a few shows. When I returned I was so determined to rise above the pain that I somehow managed to keep it together through the end of the tour. ...

 

Sadly, my difficulties performing lingered. We had another long year of touring ahead of us, and I did anything I could to avoid pondering the worst. We kicked off another European tour with promises of a break when we got home, but it was not to be. When we received our "revised" itinerary, we were at the airport in Milan, and I broke down. I saw another break evaporate and I could barely function. I knew I was near the end and it wouldn't be long before my grip would fail. From there we went to Australia, where my exhaustion and pain reached new depths, and then straight into a college tour of the States, during which my performances were feeble at best.

 

Halfway through that tour, I deteriorated to such a degree that both of my arms were pretty much useless. Josh Day ... was kind enough to sit in for me while I went home to undergo tests and physical therapy, expecting to have to miss a couple months of touring. There we were, enjoying ever more success, achieving unbelievable things, and I was on my way home. Over the next nine months I underwent every kind of exam and therapy imaginable, all the time thinking about the band performing without me. Matt Flynn ... assumed the drumming duties. No one could get a firm grip on what had gone wrong and how it could be resolved. ... All I knew is that I couldn't play the drums.

 

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That's beautiful :teresa:

 

Thanks Lewis :wub:

I didn't know this! Is it still available for purchase?

I hope it is cause I just got an idea last night :cheer: :cheer: My hubby's aunt lives in LA so I was thinking of asking her to find me the book and the DVD :w00t: :w00t:

That's wonderful :cheer:

I know :cheer:

I'm going to look into it.