THIS IS THE COVER, PEOPLE…
As of today this is what you will see when you think of the Barred For Life project. Drink it up and pass it along to your friends. More on the release of Barred For Life can be found just below this awesome image. As an aside, there will be a limited number of hardcover volumes issued, so stay tuned in for the launch of our Kickstarter campaign, which is the only place to get one of these rare commodities…
BARRED FOR LIFE RELEASE DATE:
Its official! After five years of scouring the world and taking your photos and stories, Barred For Life will finally make it to the shelves of your favorite book and record stores on October 1st, 2012, published and distributed by PM Press.
Good news is that if you allowed Jared or me to take your photograph, you are in the book. Nobody was cut. You are all in there. Think about it: your photo, your tattoo, your words sharing pages with the likes of Dez Cadena, Ron Reyes (aka Chavo Pedarast), Kira Roessler, Chuck Dukowski, Keith Morris, Glen E. Friedman, Edward Colver, and Rick Spellman.
For those of you who don't know by now, besides gracing the usual suspects, The Bars can be found on actors Johnny Depp and Edward Norton, singer-songwriters Bryan Adams and Frank Turner, and Foo Fighters frontman David Grohl. As the phenomenon continues to grow you can be sure that The Bars, the lasting legacy of the band Black Flag and their contribution to Punk Rock culture, will find their way into many more curious aspects of popular culture.
On the updated site you will find links to our Facebook community and Twitter feed, as well as to my 2009 tour blog, where you will find a blow-by-blow account of my travels, with my tour partner Stefan Bauschmid (and others), across the US, Canada, and much of Europe. There are hundreds of previously unposted photos, and in the writing you will get a glimpse into a world where a mature 42-year-old man (and a diehard Punk Rocker for 25 of them) walks completely away from his "normal" life in order to dig dirt and tell an important story. Of course, the life we are discussing here is mine, and the story, um, well, that is the inspiration for the narrative you will find in Barred For Life when the book finds its way into your collection next October.
So in the meantime feel free to check into FaceBook and Twitter, post a picture of your Bars, and tell us your story. And if you have any unanswered questions after all of this blathering, I can be reached most easily via email at barredforlife@gmail.com.
Thanks, and my sincere gratitude,
Stewart Dean Ebersole
Project Creator and Photographer