Agreed. Ironically the only tolerable music theory book I read was "music theory for dummies". Actually learned something from that before falling asleep. Then

Agreed. Ironically the only tolerable music theory book I read was "music theory for dummies". Actually learned something from that before falling asleep. Then again, mashing 3 or 4 memorised chords on an old korg trinity gets you quite far without having to know what you are doing :)