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Teaser Tuesday!

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It’s been a while since I had something I wanted to share on a Tuesday!  It’s funny, I complain about how hard it is to keep up with the blog when I’m traveling, but when I take a little time off, my schedule really falls apart and it gets even harder.  Anyway, today’s Teaser is from a book I finished on my flight yesterday: Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, by Dave Mustaine of Megadeth. I posted earlier about the book signing and I really enjoyed the book – a good read, reflective, and fairly unflinching. I expect to be posting my review later this week. In the meantime, I had to try and choose amongst the many quotable bits. I decided on a bit of musical history, related while Dave Mustaine was hanging out with Kerry King of Slayer:

“I shared with him a bunch of stuff on the guitar, including the infamous Devil’s tritone, a complicated musical interval spanning three tones.  The Devil’s tritone requires some dexterity, but it’s cool primarily because of the folklore attached to it.  For a period of time in the Middle Ages, the Devil’s tritone was banned by the Catholic Church; supposedly, musicians who disregarded this edict were severely punished and sometimes beheaded.”

Now, that’s a lot of agitation over a bit of music!  What’s teasing YOU this week?

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8 Comments

  1. Comment by Marg:
    Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 7:28 am | 

    Isn’t it funny how the more things change the more they stay the same. It wasn’t so long ago that rock n roll was the music of the devil!

    My teaser comes from The Night Villa by Carol Goodman

  2. Comment by Beth F:
    Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 8:10 am | 

    Interesting. My husband just finished a book that dealt with music and playing.

  3. Comment by jlshall (Joy's Blog):
    Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 10:16 am | 

    I know people can be very passionate about their music, but I think beheading is carrying things a little too far! Sounds like an intriguing book, and that’s a great teaser.

  4. Comment by Alayne:
    Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 11:02 am | 

    Nice teaser! Glad you’re participating again. Mine is at The Crowded Leaf.

  5. Comment by The Literary Omnivore:
    Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 11:43 am | 

    What an interesting piece of trivia- thanks for sharing. I hope you enjoy this!

  6. Comment by kaye:
    Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 4:55 pm | 

    That is interesting info about the church banning this. Hmmm… I hope you enjoyed the book.

  7. Comment by Phyl:
    Tuesday, August 24th 2010 at 5:10 pm | 

    That reminds me of a book that took place in Ivan the Terrible’s Russia, where a western painter got into serious trouble because he didn’t paint an icon according to the strict prescriptions of the Orthodox church. He came close to losing his life, until someone intervened, and then he only got lashed.

    Great teaser, and I love the sound of the book. Must look for it.

    Meanwhile, my teaser is from Six Suspects, which is by the author of Slumdog Millionnaire (which I only discovered after I got the library book home). Over at Bookishgal.

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