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Brace yourself for a roller coaster thrill ride as you join the Tattoo the Earth 2000 summer tour of America, the most insane tour ever inflicted on a continent. Featuring twenty of metal's biggest bands, including Metallica, Slipknot, and Slayer, plus Filip Leu, Sean Vasquez, and the world's best tattoo artists, these renegade outsiders pissed off all the wrong music business heavyweights but left delirious inked fans in their wake. Caravan of Pain is a rip-roaring music business underdog tale: compelling, hysterical, and cautionary. Its unique peek inside the world of music festivals, metal, and tattooing gives the reader a front row seat to a watershed time in our culture at the turn of the millennium. Told with candor and humor by the tour's creator Scott Alderman and illustrated with memorabilia and never-before-seen photos, Caravan of Pain is a story of inspiration, persistence, and the dark side of following a dream.

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A highly entertaining account of one of rock's most colorful tours...a rare chronicle of the era in which tattooing went from an underground activity to a part of the mainstream-a shift that Tattoo the Earth can lay claim to having energized. - Kirkus Reviews ...a must-read for fans of 1990s pop culture and metal music. - Literary Titan The tattooing aspect really fascinated me to see it from the perspective of the artists, and I feel that Alderman really captures a specific spirit and unique subculture in his viciously humorous work. Overall, I would certainly recommend Caravan of Pain to fans of the rock/metal scene and music history enthusiasts alike. A memoir filled with excitement and not to be missed. - Reader's Favorite From the earliest brainstorming pitch sessions and potential disasters with scheduling to the chaos of rock star egos and downright raunchy tour anecdotes, this book covers ground you might expect - debauchery and all-around bad behavior - but it is uniquely penned from the perspective of the organizer, not a musician, giving an all-access pass to managing a tour that is at once gripping and informative. 1/2 - Publishing Review For anyone thinking of starting something like this it shows that you better do a deep background check into the type of people that you might be dealing with if you choose to move forward. - Kevin Lyman, Warped Tour Founder This is a must read for anyone curious about life, style, art, the music industry, tattooing and accepting people's uniqueness. - Naomi Fabricant, The Scars Foundation

The tattooing aspect really fascinated me to see it from the perspective of the artists, and I feel that Alderman really captures a specific spirit and unique subculture in his viciously humorous work. Overall, I would certainly recommend Caravan of Pain to fans of the rock/metal scene and music history enthusiasts alike. A memoir filled with excitement and not to be missed. - Reader's Favorite Caravan of Pain by Scott Alderman is a gritty and savagely honest account of the author's epic dream come to life - a chaotic collaboration of metal's biggest names and some of the most legendary tattoo artists on the planet. The author wasn't just a backstage observer, but the organizer and originator of Tattoo the Earth, a tour like nothing that had ever been attempted. From the earliest brainstorming pitch sessions and potential disasters with scheduling to the chaos of rock star egos and downright raunchy tour anecdotes, this book covers ground you might expect - debauchery and all-around bad behavior - but it is uniquely penned from the perspective of the organizer, not a musician, giving an all-access pass to managing a tour that is at once gripping and informative. 1/2 - Publisher's Review For anyone thinking of starting something like this it shows that you better do a deep background check into the type of people that you might be dealing with if you choose to move forward. - Kevin Lyman, Warped Tour Founder

"""A highly entertaining account of one of rock's most colorful tours...a rare chronicle of the era in which tattooing went from an underground activity to a part of the mainstream-a shift that Tattoo the Earth can lay claim to having energized."" - Kirkus Reviews ""...a must-read for fans of 1990s pop culture and metal music."" ★★★★★ - Literary Titan ""The tattooing aspect really fascinated me to see it from the perspective of the artists, and I feel that Alderman really captures a specific spirit and unique subculture in his viciously humorous work. Overall, I would certainly recommend Caravan of Pain to fans of the rock/metal scene and music history enthusiasts alike. A memoir filled with excitement and not to be missed."" ★★★★★ - Reader's Favorite ""From the earliest brainstorming pitch sessions and potential disasters with scheduling to the chaos of rock star egos and downright raunchy tour anecdotes, this book covers ground you might expect - debauchery and all-around bad behavior - but it is uniquely penned from the perspective of the organizer, not a musician, giving an all-access pass to managing a tour that is at once gripping and informative."" ★★★★1/2 - Publishing Review ""For anyone thinking of starting something like this it shows that you better do a deep background check into the type of people that you might be dealing with if you choose to move forward."" - Kevin Lyman, Warped Tour Founder ""This is a must read for anyone curious about life, style, art, the music industry, tattooing and accepting people's uniqueness."" - Naomi Fabricant, The Scars Foundation"

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