"A highly entertaining account of one of rock's most colorful tours." - Kirkus Reviews
Caravan of Pain: The True Story of the Tattoo the Earth Tour
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, Paul Booth, 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.
Told with candor and humor by the tour’s creator, 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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Praise for Caravan of Pain:
Kirkus Reviews
"A highly entertaining account of one of rock's most colorful tours."
Revolver
"...provides interesting, hilarious and often harrowing insight into an era when tattooing was still largely an underground subculture and metal was feared by many."
Readers Favorite
★★★★★
"A memoir filled with excitement and not to be missed."
Literary Titan
★★★★★
"It’s a must-read for fans of 1990s pop culture and metal music."
Publishing Review
"...an all-access pass to managing a tour that is at once gripping and informative."
Press for Caravan of Pain:
Worcester Mag 8/28/22
Tattoo The Earth etches a powerful redemption in ink outside at the Palladium
Worcester Mag 8/23/22
Scott Alderman’s ‘Caravan of Pain’ allows him to Tattoo The Earth one more time.
AftershocksTV 7/14/22
Scott Alderman sits down with Matt Hartnett to talk about the book.
Mistress Carrie 6/15/22
Episode 106: Tattoo the Earth Founder and Author, Scott Alderman
Loudwire 4/26/22
Tattoo the Earth Returns After 20 Years and Announces Full Line-up
Revolver 3/24/22
How a Slipknot Pyro Mishap Destroyed a Public Park on 2000's Tattoo the Earth
Loudwire 3/15/22
That time Clown Got Maced Before a Slipknot Show on Tattoo the Earth
Podioslave 3/7/22
Episode 104: A Conversation with Scott Alderman - Creater of Tattoo the Earth
Set against a backdrop of New York City in the grungy, glittering 1980s, Get Off is a memoir about desperate living, hidden promise, double lives, and the danger of getting too much too soon.
"This is the voice of a natch'l born raconteur with the courage to venture to the darkest spaces of the human heart with uncanny compassion and deep honesty." - Oliver Trager, Author of Dig Infinity!
Scott Alderman was born in New York City, and has a BA in literature and writing from Columbia University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and kid.