Hot off the press – check out my newest book. Available online and in select bookstores.
Confessions of a Musical Masochist is David Fagin's memoir of a life spent chasing a career in music while nearly everyone around him suggested he was wasting his time. Fagin — frontman of The Rosenbergs, arguably the first band credited with going viral — traces an arc that runs from touring with national acts and signing with British rock royalty to sleeping on floors, playing to empty rooms, surviving catastrophic tours, and reinventing himself in tribute bands, with detours through work alongside The Muppets, Neil Diamond, and Sheryl Crow. The result pulls back the curtain on the music business to show what life actually looks like for the "almost famous": the outrageous road stories and industry absurdities, but also the emotional and financial toll of refusing to quit something that rarely pays the bills. Threaded through the comedy is a quieter story about family, loss, friendship, and resilience — about learning that success seldom arrives in the shape you pictured. Part rock-and-roll memoir, part cautionary tale, and part love letter to anyone who has stubbornly pursued an impossible dream, it is ultimately a portrait of an artist pathologically incapable of walking away from the thing he loves most, whatever the cost.
Customers will get a link for download that is open for 24 hours.
Hot off the press – check out my newest book. Available online and in select bookstores.
Confessions of a Musical Masochist is David Fagin's memoir of a life spent chasing a career in music while nearly everyone around him suggested he was wasting his time. Fagin — frontman of The Rosenbergs, arguably the first band credited with going viral — traces an arc that runs from touring with national acts and signing with British rock royalty to sleeping on floors, playing to empty rooms, surviving catastrophic tours, and reinventing himself in tribute bands, with detours through work alongside The Muppets, Neil Diamond, and Sheryl Crow. The result pulls back the curtain on the music business to show what life actually looks like for the "almost famous": the outrageous road stories and industry absurdities, but also the emotional and financial toll of refusing to quit something that rarely pays the bills. Threaded through the comedy is a quieter story about family, loss, friendship, and resilience — about learning that success seldom arrives in the shape you pictured. Part rock-and-roll memoir, part cautionary tale, and part love letter to anyone who has stubbornly pursued an impossible dream, it is ultimately a portrait of an artist pathologically incapable of walking away from the thing he loves most, whatever the cost.
Customers will get a link for download that is open for 24 hours.
