SOMEONE COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING is a bold call to return to the fundamentals of rock'n'roll - Rhythm, Rebellion, Sex, and Soul. It is seductive, subversive, dangerously wry, and radically authentic. It encourages curiosity, adventure, imagination, protest, and a little bit of trouble. It is all about creating possibilities.

SOMEOME COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING puts the dirt and grime back in rock'n'roll music by putting the people back in power. It offers raw insights for aspiring musicians looking for an uncorrupted worldview with hard-fought lessons in blues and punk rock. It exposes the tyranny of taste, talent, and technique, and rips the sheets off of traditional music theory.

SOMEONE COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING tears a path from Little Richard and Bo Diddley through the Sex Pistols, Nirvana, and the White Stripes, and along the way celebrates the New York Dolls, the Stooges, the Cramps, and America's rich tradition of juvenile delinquency. It is a love letter with a happy ending, a self-empowering, life-changing book for anyone who wants to disturb the universe by opening up their hearts and having an unapologetic good time.

Author MIKE EDISON dances freely with anarchy and existentialism, quantum physics, and cheap pyrotechnics. This isn't just a book about rock'n'roll, it is the thing itself, a rock'n'roll manifesto that should be nailed to the front door of the local music school-and the local bar.

SOMEONE COUNTS TO FOUR AND THEN YOU START PLAYING is about that moment when you let go and realize perfection isn't the goal, excitement is.

Mike Edison is a celebrated author and musician who has seen the world from behind the drums, opening for such diverse bands as Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, and the Ramones. His most recent book, Sympathy for the Drummer, Why Charlie Watts Matters, was named Book of the Year by Americana Highways. He has written extensive liner notes for, among others, Iggy Pop, and was the editor and publisher of outlaw magazine High Times. He is currently a teaching artist at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, and continues to perform with his long-running blues-punk and garage experiment, the Edison Rocket Train. He speaks frequently on free speech, sex, drugs, and the American counterculture and is “proof positive that one can be both edgy and erudite, lowbrow and literate, and take joy in the unbridled pleasures of the id without sacrificing the higher mind.” (PopMatters.com)

Edison lives in Barryville, New York.