Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

"Let me state upfront that I am a huge music fan, but not a Korn fan. Yes of course I know of them and have heard some of their songs, but it's not really my musical style. But I heard about Brian Welsh's sudden departure from the band, and when I saw this book, I couldn't resist picking it up.

"Save Me From Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs and Lived to Tell My Story" (240 pages) brings Brian's life story, from his humble beginnings in Bakersfield, CA to his eventual major rock star success as a member of the multi-platinum selling Korn. Brian Welsh describes his rock star days excesses (primarily drugs and a failed marriage) in detail, but more intriguingly for me as a music fan, how Korn came about and wrote the sings they became famous for. Yet his transformation into finding religion is of course even more fascinating, in the way that Welsh renounces the "rock star" life and evolves his life to being a good dad and his devotion to being a Christian.

In all, this is a great read. There is a companion book of sorts to this from Welsh (released the same day as this book), called "Washed By Blood" which is pretty much the same book as this, except that it provides "Discussion Questions" after each chapter, intended to stimulate further discussion among the readers."
~ Written on 2008-09-01

"This is a very powerful read and Totally recommendation to any Korn fans or any readers in general I'm probably not the 1st one to say this but when I 1st heard about this book and read the 1st few pages on here I didn't feel good about it but after I read it all the way thought I finally realized how much the man really went through the isolation and everything else that went on thought his life give the man credit he put his life together and his book shows what the power of Jesus Christ really has I'M not just saying that a christian but as a man. PS anyone who trashes this book really didn't understand what he truly went through as a youth Give the man respect this book is totally worth reading. "
~ Written on 2008-08-30

"One of my senior high youth group girls just got done reading this and loved it! She said it really inspired her to be a Christian. I am going to suggest more of my senior high youth kids to read this book. "
~ Written on 2008-08-18

"I was pleasantly surprised with the honesty that Brian "Head" Welch provided in his book. With three-quarters of the book dedicated to his descending into a drug induced madness and the rest on his recovery and rebirth, it was a good balance as the reader did not want to get bombarded with any bible bashing. At times though, one does get a little bored with the references to Jesus, God and our Father. However, this book is a celebration of a human being who saved his life from a certain miserable ending and turned it into a search for total self satisfaction without the use of drugs."
~ Written on 2008-08-12

"Being a fan of Korn, I was shocked when Head left the band. I read through this book which is filled with the usual rock star excesses. Of course, instead of gaining wisdom and reclaiming his life--he became another weak minded slave to the great lie. It amazes me how many weak minded souls cling to vestigial superstitions and fears. Lots of drug addicts give up one drug for another, this being Christianity. Another flavour of the weak."
~ Written on 2008-08-09