Black Heart Fades Blue

If youre looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If youre looking for what I did when I was younger? Thats in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? Its all here. This is my story and Im sticking to it. Thats the one thing I have, the truth.

Volume two of Black Heart Fades Blue, a three-part memoir by the founder and frontman for one of punk rocks most notorious acts, Poison Idea.
In 1980, Jerry A. formed Poison Idea, a Portland-based punk band that gave voice to disaffected and disenfranchised youth for over 30 years. As happened to so many punk bands, Jerry A. and Poison Idea also went all in on drugs and drinking as they toured the country, spiraling out of control and blowing both the band and their lives apart.
Black Heart Fades Blue is not an apology or a nostalgic catalog of events, but a true reckoning with one's past and present. A memoir of a time and a place and a movement, as well as a deep conversation about the memories and moments we leave behind, Black Heart Fades Blue is a deep exploration of an unconventional life. See more