The catalogue blurb for John Armstrong's punk rock memoir,
Guilty of Everything (New Star $20) is so good, the guy must have written it himself. "Born and raised in White Rock, B.C., John Armstrong (aka 'Buck Cherry') fell in with a bad crowd early and found himself living with Art Bergmann and working at a 7-Eleven. It was during this time that he formed his first band, the Shits, later to be renamed the Monitors..."; A Vancouver Sun writer since 1986, Armstrong offers just what the world is really waiting for, punk bands' stories "from a Buck's-eye-view"; and a "non-stop carnival of debauchery."; 0-921586-86-8

[BCBW Autumn 2001]