tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59672956372799119892024-03-14T09:07:18.294-07:00Doctor Noe's GadgetBy Noë Gold
Doctor Noe is a veteran cultural commentator, former Features Editor at the Hollywood Reporter and Founding Editor of Guitar World.
For the complete interview of Frank Zappa by Noë Gold for Guitar World, go to <a href="http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Zappa%27s_Inferno">http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Zappa%27s_Inferno </a>Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-47736972498124556852020-01-07T19:24:00.002-08:002020-01-07T19:24:53.572-08:00Jimi Leloir Chromalyn Redux_2020<h3>
I posted this artifact on FB ten years ago.</h3>
Ten years ago?!?! Help me tell this story. Who’s in??!?!<br />
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Seriously ... sorry, some of these links don’t work. Will fix later, dig? (translation: <i>guitarworld is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site. ... </i>blah blah blah – in other words, I am shit out of luck. But ... praise be to my blog, <a href="http://doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Doctor Noe's Smooth Gadget</a>, you can find some of this stuff here:<br />
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Yea, it's been 20 years since it came out... but we started working on that GW issue in Jan. 87.<br />
Historic, no one has ever come close to that in any type of publication. I still remember the look on the face of the publisher Dennis Page coming into our office upon realizing we spent almost $10,000 on photos for a single issue. But GW '88 is still looked upon by collectors as the greatest accumulation of Hendrix photos in a single magazine or book.<br />
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Thanks again ... the first of two Big-ass Hendrix Special Issues that I edited as the editor of Guitar World, Sept. '85, was the first of two monumental Hendrix tributes, and the discussion of two V's Jimi was associated with can be found here:<br />
GW Sept. 85 Axology Flying V P. 54<br />
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I posted a plethora of Jimi juiciness on my Flickr page, the first one of which is referred to as<br />
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A photo of Jimi Hendrix, looking right at the camera with his rare flowered Flying V slung casually around his neck and wearing a powder-blue outfit. This special print is rare indeed because it was used in production for this issue. The photo credit for the cover is Jean-Pierre Leloir.<br />
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THIS PIC IS NOT A LASER REPRINT BUT A GENUINE PRODUCTION CHROMALYN WITH PRINTER’S MARKS INDICATING SIZING FOR PUBLICATION. More interestingly, the chromalyn – a one-of-a-kind limited-edition print – shows how the original photo by renowned photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir was masked to create the cover image you see above. At a 2009 exhibit at the Celebrity Vault gallery in Los Angeles, “HENDRIX REVEALED: A LIFE THROUGH THE LENS,” photos from Leloir’s shoot went for thousands of dollars.<br />
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The pic was used as the cover for the March 1988 Special Issue of Guitar World (for more info about the Collector’s Editions of Guitar World, you have to go to to my Flickr pages that tell more of the fascinating story (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2567714905/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2567714905/</a>).<br />
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Guitar World HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, VOL. II of March, 1988 is the ultimate tribute to Jimi which I daresay has never been eclipsed, even as today, the publishers of Guitar World have just released another one:</div>
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>"}}}}”> Noë Gold, aka Noe the G, is the Founding Editor of Guitar World magazine. Among his most cherished achievements is the creation, with partner Bill Nitopi, curator of the Hendrix Collection Archives and an editor-at-large of Guitar World, of two humongous Special Issues: Vol. 6, No. 5 SEPTEMBER, 1985 SPECIAL JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE! and Vol. 9, No. 2 MARCH 1988 THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX. </div>
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Noë Gold is a frequent contributor to MusicUCanSee magazine, Fandango and BestClassicBands. He was Features Editor at the Hollywood Reporter, editor-in-chief of Movies USA, LA Family, LA Times Custom Publishing, Bikini, Founding Editor of Guitar World, Hollywood Correspondent for Jing Daily and a columnist for the Village Voice and the New York Daily News. His entertainment news column, The Daily Fix, was a regular feature of the AOL Entertainment Channel. Noë's hallmark as an editor is building community. He is also a keen observer of the scene and a formidable writer-researcher. Author of articles and books on the music of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder, Miles Davis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King and Jaco Pastorius, among others.</div>
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Noe Gold blogs at <a href="http://doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Doctor Noe's Smooth Gadget doctornoemedia.blogspot.com</a>. </div>
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Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-63370514441262313382019-09-04T13:27:00.002-07:002019-09-05T10:09:08.236-07:00Jessica Kaczmarek Is the Boss Lady!<h3>
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Harlis Sweetwater & The 77’s with Jessica Kaczmarek at The Orange International Street Fair. What a bad ass band! </span>😎 😎😎</h3>
So I moseyed on down to the Old Towne Orange International Market on Labor Day. It was a crowd-heavy-in-a-good-way street party, with taco tents, churro stands, beer-guzzling pop-up bars and soundstages and everybody was jitterbugging all over the streets. This is what I saw.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Noë Gold is the Founding Editor of Guitar World</b>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">He was Features Editor at the Hollywood Reporter, editor-in-chief of Movies USA, LA Family, LA Times Custom Publishing, Bikini and Home Entertainment, Content Manager for China Film Insider and a columnist for the Village Voice and the New York Daily News. His entertainment news column, The Daily Fix, was a regular feature of the AOL Entertainment Channel. Credits include Rolling Stone, GQ, USA Today, Premiere, The Movies and Los Angeles Times Magazine. Author of articles and books on the music of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder, Miles Davis, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimmy Page, among others. He has been Creative Consultant to the Jimi Hendrix Foundation and the Les Paul Society. Noë is also a keen observer of the scene and a formidable writer-researcher. </span><br />
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Hendrix arrived in London in 1966 under the wing of new manager Chas Chandler, and he was treated like royalty forthwith. At the time, the Beatles and the Stones were the reigning rock royalty, Beck and Clapton, the guitar kings and The Who endowed with the most flamboyant stage act.<br />
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All of these came to visit when Chandler arranged for Jimi's society "coming out," the first to be converted being Clapton, when Hendrix jammed with him on a version of "Killing Floor" at a Cream gig. The rest followed after a slew of barn-burning club appearances. The Who had a connection to Hendrix by virtue of the fact that the group's managing team of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp also owned Track Records, to which they aspired to sign the Experience.<br />
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Pete Townshend said at the time that he feared, "Oh God, Kit Lambert has found another guitar player." Then, in a packed London theater, Hendrix put the icing on it, making him a dangerous act to follow: He burned his guitar at the end of the set, causing absolute mayhem.<br />
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This was not lost on The Who, who previously had been famed for other, less incendiary stage antics, such as the simple destruction of a Rickenbacker guitar. At Monterey a little while later, the question of who was to follow Who came up again. The Who won the coin toss, in an effort to not repeat the debacle of the London Savile Theatre show in which Hendrix had wiped them out even before they hit the stage, they tore it up.<br />
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But Hendrix was not to be outdone. He followed The Who with a set of pyrotechnics climaxed by the burning of the midnight Strat.<br />
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Jimi & The Who, original pic by Barry Peake, used here on a promo sticker (and a tee-shirt) promoting the Guitar World "Unpublished Hendrix" special issues.</h4>
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November 27 is Jimi's birthday!<br />
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<br />Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-24190653096422565462016-10-25T01:59:00.001-07:002016-10-25T17:16:46.721-07:00Newman Guitars Lives<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;">"T</span>ed left a lot of work to do so we're doing it," says Jeff Smith, the current proprietor of <a href="https://reverb.com/shop/newman-guitars" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Newman Guitars</a>. Smith was Newman's sous chef and Keeper of the Flame for the past nine years, with the intention of updating the guitar maker's craft for the 21st Century. And now, he is sailing the ship that is Newman Guitars through 21st Century waters. He made the pilgrimage to Ted's mom's home in Dyersberg, Tennessee bringing with him the Newman guitar he'd acquired and cherished – and that, like it says at the end of <i>Casablanca</i>, was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. You can see the fruits of that relationship on the company's <a href="http://www.newmanguitars.net/gallery/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have detailed in the first three chapters of this story how Ted Newman Jones toured with the Rolling Stones, Tracy Nelson </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and Isaac Hayes </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">made guitars for Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Ron Wood and Tom Petty. And how his work on Clapton's Stratocaster named "Blackie" was his calling card to meeting his employer, Richards. This story is not that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While there was plenty of anecdotal pickins in their regular visits, with Newman's cancer diagnosis a couple of years ago, says Smith, "... in the last years of his life I didn't feel like we needed to waste his energy talking about old Rolling Stones stories. We had lots to discuss about how we would build the future rather than reliving the past. I had one interview with him two weeks before he passed. But usually our conversations in the last year-and-a-half were all about guitar design, pickups, woods, materials – and about how we needed to create standardizations to his innovations in order to continue building them."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here's Newman in the final interview. Asked to comment on on the passing of the torch, he says: "I've watched this transition, I've taken the Newman Guitar to its fullest extent, five-string, six-string, neck-through, bolt-on, and then I met Jeff Smith and he enhanced everything that I have accomplished and created some stuff to go along with it."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>'I want to bring awareness to the fact that Newman Guitars has been a company for the last 35 years and has been reestablished as a vital guitar to the guitar world. The five-string should be a milestone in that history – part of the evolution of the electric guitar. In all these years, Keith Richards can't be wrong.'</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smith: It's unique. It's not a Fender ripoff, not a Gibson ripoff, it's a new state of the art of guitar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"It is a great American shape. A unique design," says Smith of the process whereby he and luthier Jacob Harper worked on a prototype Newman guitar until they were able to present it to the master and have him say, "It's a Newman!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"He was a great pioneer, and it was humbling to me to see what we could do on a consistent basis. Do we concentrate on five-strings, on neck-through-bodies? Is it a thick neck, is it a thin neck? The aesthetics of the guitar's shape with relation to the feel and the player's relationship with the guitar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"When his illness started getting worse, we needed to concentrate on refining the design and find somebody who could help us make them and that was Jacob Harper."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The process was a painstaking one of putting all the whimsicality and genius of Newman's creation into a computer model. "</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can replicate history in this modern age. Ted knew that and we agreed – let's build one right and we can replicate that. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During the last nine months of his life we – with reverse-engineering – recreated the turqouise guitar. It had to be whimsical, how do you build whimsical? It had to be unique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I said, 'We could sign a contract, but your signature on the guitar is like Picasso's seal of approval. The only approval I ever sought was Ted's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"When I took the white one back to him, he spun it around , looked at the finish, the neck, certain things he was looking for and felt it and said, 'It's a Newman.' A</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nd for him to say, "It's a Newman." that was it. It was his r&d and not a walk down memory lane. "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">OK, a little memory lane is understandable when you're paying homage to a genius like Newman, who has spread his legend to so many legends. But seriously, the mission of Newman Guitars is all about the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I want to bring awareness to the fact that Newman Guitars has been a company for the last 35 years and has been reestablished and is a vital guitar to the guitar world. The five-string guitar should be a milestone in that history – part of the evolution of the electric guitar. In all these years, Keith Richards can't be wrong. What I am looking for is that Ted's body design, Made in USA, his name and his memory live on through this beautiful instrument. And that is Ted's legacy. His body style is gonna stay the body style; headstock is going to be the same. Everything was agreed upon prior to his passing, and everything is nailed down. He left me enough information and feedback to make sure his legacy would continue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"There's only one body style. You can get it in five-string or six-string with different colors and woods, but that is the Newman guitar."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">The first one, reprinted here without transcription, is from the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Austin American Statesman, dated December 8, 1980 and written by American Statesman staff writer Richard A. Abrams. Ironically, the date was the same as the night John Lennon died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The man is Ted Newman Jones and he intensely dislikes his surname and rarely uses it.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>He has toured with the Rolling Stones, Tracy Nelson (then with Mother Earth) and Isaac Hayes. He has made guitars, both acoustic and electric, for Mick Jagger, Ron Wood and Tom Petty. At the moment he is working on guitars for Bob Dylan and Travis Holland. Jerry Jeff Walker plays a Newman guitar even though he doesn't know it (it was sold to him through a friend of Newman's). Newman can build "a totally customed instrument to fit just about any player."</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newman grew up next to a radio station. "Just listening to the Stones when I was a teenager made me want to play," he said. "It ws the first thing I saw tht made any sense – they were the only people who picked up on the black energy – and to see some white English guys do this just blew my mind."</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In 1972, Newman moved to Arkansas to apprentice for a year under Leo Erickson, perfecting his craft as an instrument maker. Since then he has led an alternating lifestyle – living out in the country in Arkansas, travelling with bands, making instruments, writing, playing and recording music.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"Hell, I didn't know how it started. I started working on them (guitars) because I couldn't get what I wanted," he said.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The art of instrument-making is time-consuming and demands precision.The effort that the process demands, especially that which goes into the final shaping, sanding and application of finish takes no less than 120 hours to complete one instrument. The delivery time for one of these custom-made guitars is usually between three to six months.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newman chooses the wood carefully, considering it a crucial aspect, and that accounts for the price he is able to demand for his work. His instruments start at $1,000. The average cost is $2,500, while $3,000 is the highest paid or a Newan guitar.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newman and Judlin prefer not to do repairs, because it is so time-consuming and not as satisfactory as starting from scratch. Sometimes starting from scratch is a literal statement. Newman himself said he has chopped down a tree to get the wood he wants. All the guitars he makes are guaranteed and should "last longer than the player." And if parts can't be bought, "we make 'em," said Judlin.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newman's own music consists largely of ballads and rock and roll. "I suppose the ballads would be considered a little bit country," het said.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"I never thought I could play an instrument until Keith Richards convinced me that I could. He encouraged me to play with him. All the Stones were real helpful and encouraging. They always showed me what I needed to learn," he said.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Newman is enthusiastic about the New Wave music that bounds back and forth on the airwave so often. "I think it's as important as the Beatles and Stones. They always showed me what I needed to learn," he said.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But the punk rock scene in Austin disappoints him. "It's designed around adolescent cliques," he said. It's bullshit."</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">... being a re-post of an article about the late guitar genius, Ted Newman Jones</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Funny how things work out some time. I reposted this article from 1981 ...</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ... "Keith Richards' Guitar Maven" on Facebook a short time ago and I happened to tag "Newman Guitars." I got this response: "The interview you did with Ted</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> did a lot for his self-respect and cemented his place in history. I believe he passed away reclaiming the glory you shed light on in the GW article. I am continuing with Newman Guitars."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But while this post was not written by Ted Newman Jones, Jeff Smith was its author, having set up the Facebook Page at Ted's request. More on that in Pt. III of this three-parter. Here is ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-large;">I’</span>d been trying to locate this guy for months, this Ted Newman Jones character – or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Newman-Ted Jones or just plain Newman, by most ("I use that name because whoever heard of 'Jones Guitars?’ ”). I'd already decided that the magazine ought to have a story about the technician who handles a band's guitars. Hearing about this guy with a little guitar shop in Austin who has been going out on tour with the Rolling Stones since becoming Keith Richards' personal instrument caretaker, tactician and moral support, and who had been rumored by his close buddies to be quite bonkers and a lot of fun made me more than anxious to meet him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> About the time I gave up on the idea of finding some excuse to go to Austin and talk to him. I got a call from a mutual acquaintance that Newman was in town on some projects that I'd be interested in, and that he was not averse to talking about them. So, the first thing I got to see Newman do was give some advice to our mutual friend (John Rivers Bicknell, the guy who draws the cartoons in this magazine) about a guitar he'd given up for dead. He also sold him one he was kind of looking for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> John was telling us about the Telecaster he'd just committed to the shop for a new neck, since "some old guy in Shreveport redid it. It was an original 1953 neck. And he sanded it down so thin that the headstock was coming up. He sanded the first four frets almost flat." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Owwww,” howls Newman, truly in pain, "The guy didn't know what he was doin'." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "No. he didn't. So it was rounded. About the sixth or seventh fret it started getting round. But it was flat before that. It was just a mess. So I'll have to throw the neck away, unfortunately." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "Well, don't do that. You know I can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Any kind of neck like that, John, you know I got all these heat pressures and shit. I can –"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “– just bend it back. Well, I'll give you this neck," says John, "and you can, if you think it's savable.'' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “Sure, it’s savable. I put heat lamps on 'em and all kinds of clamping devices you know, different tensions and pressures and add humidity and subtract humidity. Shake all the stuff up and, you know, dust it with a little gris-gris dust. Meantime, I'll ship you this Esquire I got that you'll really like better. It's got kind of a, I think it's a Dimarzio pickup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "It's a Schecter neck – a full-fitting neck, not too thin – it's probably gonna be real similar to what you've put on your Strat but it also can be taken down to any size – when they're too small is when you're in trouble. It can be shaped to any size. You know if you were to play it awhile and didn't like it you could say, hey put a V in it or make it thinner or somethin'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "It's got a chunky feeling – I like it 'cause I play so much acoustic guitar." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Newman was in town, it turns out, both on guitar business and on Rolling Stones business. Though they put out a lot of p.r. about farewells to touring in the future, the band was beginning to rustle into activity. Working on the recording of other acts like Max Romeo, signed to their Rolling Stones label; getting out into the street and partying and making noises like they were going to be touring in either spring or summer. Keith was doing all this running around. and writing some songs. Studio time had been booked at New York's Electric Ladyland for work on the next album.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So Ted Newman Jones, the ''bubba" from Tennessee, is holed up with his lady at the Chelsea Hotel to look over Keith's guitars, share ideas with him about a few things and generally hang out and keep him company on various exploits like wild rides through the metropolis in a checker cab that Keith had bought as a New Year's gift for his girlfriend. Because that's been part of his job for the past eight years – to hang out with Keith Richards and keep him and his guitars in tune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> One of the ideas he's been talking over with Keith is the musician's support of a pet proiect – the Newman Keith Richards Model. Newman has already made a number of versions of the guitar for Keith and some players around Austin. The idea is to market the instrument on a limited-production basis via one of the major guitar manufacturers. The guitar is both futuristic-looking and classic. With an off-center double ellipse shape that suggests the curves of an acoustic guitar, it leans forward on its ellipses like a Strat, with the neat scallop of an otherworldly cutaway. It is both practical and sleek – the back and neck are cherry and the face is bird's-eye maple with a matching maple fingerboard. It has a simple dot inlay, though Newman has been known to create less traditional fingerboard ornaments) like the Woody Woodpecker Newman etched onto the one he made recently for Ron Wood). The guitar has EMG pickups with a built-in preamp to eliminate noise and static. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Newman is pretty thorough about his craftsmanship. He builds his own fingerboards and a lot of his own hardware. He uses Schaller machines and some Schecter bridge parts and neck plates. He makes his own truss rods out of stainless steel ("It's stronger'') and even builds his own cases. Newman has been known to watch a particular cherry tree that was old and "seasoned standing" and save the wood for one of his special guitars. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> He's made a five-string model tor Keith, which is light and easy to handle. It's missing the bottom string, and is tuned to G D G B D – its G-tuning may be heard on "Jumping Jack Flash,” "Street Fighting Man,” "Can't Always Get What You Want,” "Brown Sugar," "Tumblin' Dice" and a number of other songs that would-be Glimmer clones always have a hard time figuring out from the record. The sound comes from the five-string that Newman made for Keith which was lost in a fire. That was the first guitar Newman built for Keith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The story goes that Newman, being ravaged by a Stones mania that grasped him trancelike, stole his father's credit card and flew over to Europe to show Keith a guitar. "That is a fucking wild story," says Bubba right now, clearing the record, "and not true at all. It grew from a joke I made in an interview. Some guys'll print anything. What really happened was I got a credit card loan – at that time I was eighteen or something, and you could get a Bankamericard loan for two hundred bucks. I went down and told 'em I was going to France to meet Keith Richards and give him a guitar, which turned out to be true. The guy kind of looked at me like – hmmmm, if you pull this one off. … A girlfriend of mine sent me a hundred bucks, and then my mother was so proud that I'd got this bank loan that she gave me a hundred bucks and I split for Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "I had with me this little Rickenbacker solidbody which I'd found and fixed up. Put my touch on it and made it look the way I make a guitar look, which is pretty cool, and he liked it. I told him I'd done the work myself and so he could see where I was coming from and that's how I got the job to travel and take care of instruments and tune and stuff like that – actually. to be more or less a companion to him on the road."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> From 1972, during the touring heyday of the Stones, that was Newman's job. Working three months on, nine months off during peak seasons, he was with the group through all the major tours except the last one. He was at Altamont, tossing perfectly tuned guitars deftly to his man. He lived with the band in England for a couple of years and he and Keith became inseparable. He'd go on jet-jags and binges, hell-bent for leather tours at a stepped-up metabolism rate, then retreat to his more rustic surroundings in Arkansas, and later in Austin, where Keith sponsored him in his endeavor to set up a guitar shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> In between tours one time, he flew down to Nazareth, Pennsylvania and toured the Martin plant as a guest of Martin guitar historian Mike Longworth, who answered his many questions about how the instruments were put together. He went back to Arkansas and finished his apprenticeship with luthier Leo Erickson. After a few guitar projects for Keith he found himself in business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Today, Newman enjoys a reputation which gets him more work than any major ad campaign could. He is constantly getting referrals by people who have been pleased with his personalized attention. Newman's guitars are body-fitted to the individual, with neck scales made to taste as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And inlays. “Dylan asks me what I could do for him and I just named out things that I had done. Some of the stuff had been things out of a deck of cards – there were hearts, diamonds, spades. He says, 'How about crosses?' I says, 'What kind of crosses?' He says, 'Christian crosses.' I said 'OK, sure.' It was a custom job.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> He's also made a guitar tor Tom Petty that has broken hearts inlaid along the fingerboard, and special axes for Willie Nelson's band, Chris Ethridge, Joe Ely and a growing list of others. When this sort of life starts to pale, Newman will once again take to the road. In fact, he seemed to be open to the possibility of an Austin-based guitar tech consultancy, which would enable him to travel out with other bands than the Stones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "See, I think the Stones'll go out in spring or summer, and I'll probably go with 'em. But it would be nice to continue the momentum, going out on three or four gigs with the Pretenders, or even train their guitar action so it's more proficient, and then fly back to my home base and make some more guitars. That would be ideal. A real consultancy operation. Kind of do some preliminary road-work, go to gigs and see what's going to be happening operationally, preplan the tour. They're going on a world tour. I've been to a lot of places, but I'd be interested to go to some places I haven’t been, like Japan."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> What he does onstage during a show can be summed up in his own words by the motto "Don't Panic." These words are evident in his khaki-colored approach to stage pyrotechnics. "There's bound to be all kinds of things that can fuck up and you'll want to be there to catch a flying instrument, and have another one ready and in tune for the next number. That's the main thing to watch out for."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Indeed, when you look for Newman at the next Stones tour, he'll be somewhere behind Keith's amps with a set of earphones tuned into a strobe-tuner, which is plugged into one of nine or ten guitars onstage. Some of these will be tuned for different slews of songs in, say a G tuning. For these, Newman will have guitars set up to play this tuning in both the natural arrangement and with a capo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "The other rule I have is if somebody on stage is pissed off about something, don't take it personally. On the other hand, don't cater to their every whim, otherwise you'll never get your work done.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> After doing this for a few nights a week for three months, Newman will drag his ass back home, where the guy who turned him on to his first Rolling Stones record is still incredulous at the fact that Ted Newman Jones actually works with Mick, Keith, Ron, Charlie and Bill. He'll get back in that workshop and tell yarns all winter, getting ready for the next big blowout.</span><br />
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Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-14136670378187439582016-08-04T02:14:00.000-07:002016-08-04T02:14:15.028-07:00Newman Lives! Pt. I<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I guess my connection to Newman started way before I ever met him in the early '80s via a mutual friend, the funky Shreveport guitar player we had in common named Johnny Rivers Bicknell, for my Guitar World story. No, I actually "met" him on Mick Jagger's birthday, July 26, 1972 and we were on opposite sides of the line at what would turn out to be a most memorable Rolling Stones concert at Madison Square Garden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, Newman had his own take on this little scenario, and he only recently told it to his confidant Jeff Smith in an interview made just a month ago in June. "It took place in Manhattan on the rooftop of the St. Regis Hotel," the guitar maven recalled about the night of the famed MSG concert recorded for posterity on this bootleg collection: <i><a href="http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/Welcome_To_NY.htm" rel="nofollow">Welcome To New York Rolling Stones _ July 1972</a></i> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"It was Mick Jagger’s birthday of 29 years with Andy Warhol, Lee Radziwill, Truman Capote, Terry Southern and the whole Stones touring party. I danced all night with Carolyn Kennedy while Keith and Dylan laughed at our shenanigans. Music was provided by Count Basie and Muddy Waters." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My sister Anna and I went to see the Stones that night. We moved up to the front row – in those days you could do that; note the absence of a guard rail and phalanx of beefy mofos. That's us on the lower left hand portion of your screen: <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was on the front page of the Post next day, July 27, 1972 – and here is that footage of the concert, actual footage of Mick splashing the crowd during "Jumping Jack Flash," with me and my sister getting gloriously soaked. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCwti0SmruE" rel="nofollow">The Rolling Stones-Jumpin' Jack Flash (1972) - YouTube</a></span><br />
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What began as the fullfillment of Newman's dream to bring Keith a special guitar, wound up being not only a nifty gig but the beginnings of a beautiful friendship around the concept that blues are played more profoundly when they are filtered through the prism of a five-string, open-tuned instrument. "I started off by using ordinary guitars and taking off the sixth string, which is alright, but Newman brought me a five-string guitar he'd rigged up that makes it easier to play with five strings. He's made a couple for me since then," he continued, "everything made for five strings."</div>
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Then, along came Jeff – Jeff Smith, that is – a guy who went to a guitar show after reading my article and parting with some hard-earned dineros to take home a fabled Newman guitar. That, too, is a long and interesting story but what is a big takeaway from it is Jeff's determination to put Newman back on the map, to carry on his legacy and to declare once and for all that the "Five-String Open-G revolution has begun. So much fun to play. Nothing like it. It's a Newman.</div>
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"His innovation of the five-string and guitar design are so pioneer that the whole world of guitar players have to catch up to Ted. The five-string concept is new chords and a new voice, which extends the typical known Guitar of today. Everybody deserves an opportunity to learn what Keith Richards already knows, which is five strings can be better than six for being fresh and thinking chord structures outside of the box. My role is to keep the work we have already planned on course. Ted left a lot of work to do so we're doing it."</div>
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More on this in Pt. II, wherein I will also reprise the Guitar World story that played out on Page 52 of the May, 1981 issue, the one with Andy Summers on the cover and a cover line that trumpeted, "Keith Richards' Guitar Maven":</div>
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So that is Part I of our saga. Sadly, it ends with my obituary that was posted soon after he died <a href="http://bestclassicbands.com/keith-richards-guitar-maker-dead-7-5-16/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. "<b>Keith Richards’ Guitar Maker Ted Newman-Jones Dead at 67</b>" was the headline and I proceeded to share the sad news that "... guitar designer and builder Ted Newman-Jones, who made a number of custom electric guitars for Keith Richards and was the Rolling Stones axe-man’s tour guitar tech in the 1970s, died last Friday (7/1). Simply known as Newman to his friends, he also built custom guitars for Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Ronnie Wood, the late James Honeyman-Scott of The Pretenders, Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson and Joe Ely, among others. As well, he put together Eric Clapton‘s legendary Fender Stratocaster known as “Blackie” ...</div>
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Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-30799188464548146072016-05-31T01:45:00.001-07:002016-05-31T01:45:19.891-07:00The Robert Johnson Photo Controversy, updated<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This just in, about<b> Zeke Schein</b>, featured in <i>Vanity Fair</i> for finding a photo that has been debated ever since as either the third known photo (or not) of Robert Johnson. ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">... was displayed at Matt Umanov Guitars on May 5, 2011, when </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Robert Johnson's 100th Birthday Party was celebrated at</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Caffe Vivaldi (32 Jones, NYC). This was the first of two nights that week we hung out, in tribute to Robert Johnson. The second night at Knitting Factory I heard him play Mojo Pin. Too fabulous."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">On the storied path of my journey through music journalism and other forms of storytelling, I made my bones in the trenches with the copy editors of daily newspapers and the fascinating subset of the music business known as "The Trades," Brill Building shorthand for the trade papers that reported on the ins and outs (who was in, who was out and what position they straddled on "the charts") of the pop music industry.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In the movie biz, our counterparts were the venerable Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, both of which I worked for later on. In the swag-heavy, heady days of '70s post-Beatle music-biz excess, there were three trades: Record World, Cash Box and Billboard, only one of which soldiers on in these leaner times today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This story is about a time when the music business was fat, when vinyl was king and digital downloads were science fiction. Van Morrison so poetically described the scene as "… de record company paid out for de wine," and that is no exaggeration. Record sales were huge, and they were fueled by promotion. Sly Stone's wedding, Stevie Wonder's birthday party. These shindigs were held in tony spots like the Rainbow Room and the Starlight Roof, usually paid for by a record label. Those were the days! Clive Davis, before he became known as the American Idol paterfamilias – way before – famously (he would say allegedly) spent $60K of Columbia Records' money on his son's bar mitzvah in a party just like those.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">As a member of the press corps, I got to go to these parties, sitting at the same tables as Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, tasting the hors d'ouevres and quaffing the liqueur in an endless series of promo parties.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It was a business but as a publication that covered that business, I can think of no funner place to work than in the ragtag offices of Record World, in an office building on Broadway at 52nd Street, a stones throw from the Carnegie Deli. Sure, we performed the workaday rites of the ink-stained wretches of the press, heading out on the PATH train every Friday to the New Jersey site of our printers' for "copy day," under the stewardship of Managing Editor Michael Sigman and his #2 Howard Levitt. But sitting around the rim of the copy desk fixing typos and writing witty captions and headlines with the jokes and inside-the-industry digs flying about … it was a gas, gas, gas.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Monday-through-Thursday was equally fascinating. The fabric of our journalism was to report on the hitmakers. New artist signings happened every week, and record releases were ballyhooed incessantly. Of course, the advertising in our glossy weekly reflected this, but the editorial pages were peppered with photo ops of recording artists flanked by the execs who signed them. Often, these photo ops took place right there in our office conference room.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">It was not unusual for an Elton John, a George Harrison or Neil Young to drop by for a meet-and-greet, chaperoned by the local under-assistant promo man. As an assistant editor, I was often pressed into service to pose with these illustrious visitors. My favorite was Jesse Colin Young, who was both gracious and humble, performing his chores with journeyman aplomb. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Also in the mix to break up the monotony was a constant parade of promo guys, pushing their records and plying their influence to make them move up the charts in any way they knew how. Their main focus was the editors who handled the charts. I never fathomed how or what they actually did, but they went about it with an air of importance. The nudge-nudge, wink wink attitude they gave off was redolent of the stories of record-pushers and radio deejays in an earlier, payola age.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">My beat was AOR (album oriented rock), not the highest priority at that time for the promo guys in those disco days, but they paid their respects as they made their way through the office. We were the first stop on the gravy train, my fellow assistant editor Sophia Midas and I, simply because our office was closest to the door. From where I was sitting, it was fun to watch. You see, Sophia was a gorgeous gal. Professional, smart and talented, but hard to ignore the fact that she was a knockout. So these self-assured, hard-pushing promo guys would walk in and start to go into their pitch and then they'd spy Sophia sitting there and go all to jelly. We both had a laugh after these brief encounters.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Even as the AOR guy at a music trade in the late '70s, I could not be unaffected by disco. Disco was everywhere in those days. My crossover came in the form of Ray Caviano, the disco-king head of the Warner/RFC label. The March 3, 1979 issue of Record World's Contents page Powerhouse Picks highlighted: Blondie (Chrysalis) "Heart of Glass": "A slew of heavies added the record this week to go with upward chart moves at the primary and secondary level and breakout sales. It's Top Five in New York."</span></div>
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My own story comes full-circle here in the above photo by the late, great music-biz photographer Chuck Pulin, who took not only many of those aforementioned publicity photos but just about every important stageside musical happening in New York. I first met Chuck when I assigned his photographs at Crawdaddy, and I continued to work and play with him throughout my New York salad days. </div>
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The photo shows me dancing with my pal Patty Dryden at – what else – a promo party for Deep Purple in 1977 at Studio 54, but what I love about it besides the obvious, is the way Chuck's flash captured the minute details at the edge of the camera and the egalitarian nature of Studio in those days.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chuck Pulin: an appreciation</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>April 22, 2010 12:11 PM · By Jim Bessman</b></span><br />
One of the New York music scene's unsung heroes, Chuck Pulin, died in his sleep earlier this week, cause unknown.<br />
Mainly a music business trade photographer, he wasn't a celebrity, known for having cover spreads in Vanity Fair or Rolling Stone. He was simply a solid, dependable professional, hired to shoot hundreds if not thousands of concerts and music business functions and events.<br />
He was 69, and outlived probably 99.99 percent of the artists and executives he photographed. He was a reassuring fixture in an ever-changing New York music world.<br />
"He was at everything," says Allan Pepper, co-owner of legendary showcase club The Bottom Line, which closed in 2004. "He was older than he looked, but had a youthful presence about him and was such a gentle soul."<br />
One thing Chuck wasn't was paparazzi.<br />
"He was the kind of guy who did things because he thought they were the right things to do--as opposed to looking for a payoff," continues Pepper. .... go here for the full story:<br />
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Larry Mitchell references Eric Johnson as a touchstone to his initial inspiration by Hendrix. The esteemed guitarist was interviewed at the recent NAMM show by Dylan Z. Gold for a Halstrom High School Honors project as a Public Service for the Jimi Hendrix Foundation.</div>
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Larry Mitchell first met Noë "the G" Gold in 1988 at a concert at New York's Limelight sponsored by Guitar World, Kramer Guitars and Steve Stevens. The Guitar World Founding Editor hosted the gig, which included a guitar contest judged by Steve Stevens and Billy Sheehan. The winner for the second consecutive year was … you guessed it … Larry Mitchell, enshrined forever in history with an appearance in Part II of the legendary Guitar World Unpublished Hendrix special issues.</div>
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Larry Mitchell w Helene Webman and Noë the G at NAMM 2015:<br />
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These are the questions asked by Guitar Galaxy reporter Dylan Z. Gold of various NAMM luminaries on the showroom floor. Here is just one of them, ace guitar player Larry Mitchell:<br />
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Larry Mitchell references Eric Johnson as a touchstone to his initial inspiration by Hendrix. The esteemed guitarist was interviewed at the recent NAMM show by Dylan Z. Gold for a Halstrom High School Honors project as a Public Service for the Jimi Hendrix Foundation.<br />
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Larry Mitchell first met Noë "the G" Gold in 1988 at a concert at New York's Limelight sponsored by Guitar World, Kramer Guitars and Steve Stevens. The Guitar World Founding Editor hosted the gig, which included a guitar contest judged by Steve Stevens and Billy Sheehan. The winner for the second consecutive year was … you guessed it … Larry Mitchell, enshrined forever in history with an appearance in Part II of the legendary Guitar World Unpublished Hendrix special issues.<br />
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The questions asked by Dylan and his colleague Cooper Pearson of a number of musician luminaries for this project were:<br />
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Oh yeah, here is another highlight, this grab shot of Buck Dharma and Steve Morse<br />
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... and finally, my report was chronicled by Blues-E-News, a media partner of the Guitar Galaxy News Agency:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank you for helping us fund our Kickstarter Campaign in celebration of Jimi Hendrix. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are producing the definitive book commemorating the world's greatest guitarist, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">lavishly illustrated with inside stories from guitar heroes and Jimi confidants. The project is called ...</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hendrix Now! Backstory of a Legend A Historical Volume by Noë Gold</span></b><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jimi Hendrix - Experience This! A Visual Spiritual Odyssey. Inside stories from guitar heroes and Jimi confidants about the world's greatest guitarist.</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I came across this wonderful Christmas greeting (<b>Jimi Hendrix as Santa photo shoot for the Nashville Record Mirror</b>/ Photograph by © Dezo Hoffmann, December 1967) … from my friend <a href="http://jimihendrixonline.com/" rel="nofollow">David Pearcy</a>, a Hendrix iconographer extraordinaire with whom I collaborated on this little old magazine I edited called <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2369921881/" rel="nofollow">Guitar World</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1967 Jimi Hendrix posed as jolly Old Saint Nick for the Record Mirror newspaper to promote his then newest album, <b>Axis: Bold as Love.</b> The cover date of that issue was December 23, 1967 … and a video was shot on December 22nd, at one of the last truly “underground” events of the 60s held in London, the all-night “Christmas on Earth Continued” festival, which Hendrix headlined and also featured The Who, Traffic, Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett’s last gig with the group), Eric Burdon and the New Animals, The Move and Soft Machine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"> ... by the feedback I have been getting … and utterly wiped. Any of you who have done a Kickstarter campaign will know that for the past two months my life has been nothing but copy-paste-post-promote. So please forgive me if I take a breather and take it all in. I promise that soon I will begin to tackle all the proper thank yous, and begin the process of fulfilling the rewards orders.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">For now, thank you all, big and small, for getting me going. Now the fun part of this job begins – completing some interviews, photo editing and writing. I have you to thank for that.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 85%;"><i>... my <b>updated</b> essay on classic horror films entitled “Fear of Fright Night.” Wrote the original in 2001 for an AOL site called Entertainment Asylum. </i><i>Find the page <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ma/babybrownsplace/articles/art7.html">here</a>. </i><i>I wrote numerous pieces for Entertainment Asylum in my tenure as an AOL correspondent/content editor, but only this one was saved for posterity.</i></span></div>
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We are now in the midst of another cycle of shock films, loosely categorized by film historians as the horror genre but I'll just call 'em Scary Movies, since these film historians tend to quarrel and quibble about what exactly is a horror film. I say "cycle" because these films come in bunches, about every twenty years or so, and are extremely popular. The films in the late-'90s crop (typified by "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_%28film%29">Scream</a>," "Scream 2," "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Know_What_You_Did_Last_Summer#Differences_between_the_movie_and_the_novel">I Know What You Did Last Summer</a>," "Disturbing Behavior", the latter-day "Halloween: H2O" and the equally sequel-tastic "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer") have one thing in common: they're not "monster movies" like "Frankenstein" or "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_%281958_film%29">The Fly</a>" or any of the creepy horror films that were popular in the fifties.</div>
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The Scary Movie of the nineties relies more on psychological terror than the obvious makeup-enhanced movies of that more innocent era. It deals with ordinary people in ordinary situations who come across a deviant like "<a href="http://patch.com/A-RbW">Halloween's</a>" Mike Myers. The suspense in H20 is more on account of the audience's expectations and the throbbing, spooky music than from any obvious monster. Mike Myers comes with a lot of baggage, and it's all hidden beneath that very ordinary white Halloween mask. The effect is much more chilling than Godzilla or <a href="http://doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-interview-with-mick-and-keith-by-noe.html">Keith Richards</a> could ever hope to be.<br />
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Why is this Scary cycle surfacing again now? On the surface, things are fairly stable in modern-day society. Crime statistics are down, the economy is whistling along and Charles Manson is tucked away neatly in prison with no hope of escape. So why do we flock to movies that scare the gizzards out of us? Because it gives us pleasure. When there are no real things to be scared of, we go to the movies to shake things up. In a weird way, <i>it's therapeutic</i>.<br />
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To illustrate this point, I call forth a reference in a seminal book by an author I used to know who taught me a lot about the genre, Carlos Clarens. On the frontispiece of his <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=YXHzTdVuPJ0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Illustrated+History+of+the+Horror+Films+by+Carlos+Clarens&source=bl&ots=rRBY2rQ992&sig=cTJp4K3HMUru-gvMn3i0OYplVLI&hl=en&ei=pw_CTMaAA5H2tgP_6PHmCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false">Illustrated History of the Horror Films</a>, Carlos quotes sociologist Roland Penrose from his work, <i>Violence in Contemporary Art</i>: "The bogey of violence is particularly horrifying and intolerable to us when we meet it in cold blood. The arts, however, avoid its brutal impact by their appeal to the emotions, they warm us to its presence, turning terror into enjoyment and cruelty into compassion. We participate in the act of violence without suffering its evil consequences. Art, in fact, allows us, as in certain rituals, to satisfy our Olympian yearning to stimulate the forces of nature. Its nonviolent power has a therapeutic and catalytic influence."<br />
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So, watching Scary Movies in the relative safety of a theater with hundreds of other people around us will not turn us into raving, bloodthirsty lunatics. On the contrary, it's a cheap alternative to seeing a shrink. For the same reason we pay money and wait in long lines to ride the shriekiest roller coaster, we go to the movies to get our hair lifted. Steve Miner, who directed H20, says it this way: "My favorite scary film of all time was Psycho, which I could not sit through. I never saw the whole movie until I was an adult. <a href="http://patch.com/A-RbW">Halloween</a> I found reminiscent in spirit of that kind of movie: unrelentingly scary and suspenseful and atmospheric. I think people like to be scared because they can go to the edge without really being there."<br />
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Kevin Williamson, the Dawson's Creek director who wrote the screenplay of H20 as well as that of Scream, credits Halloween for what he is today. "Halloween is and always has been my favorite film of all time," he says. "It wasn't just a movie, it was an experience. ... The audience participation factor was one of the most incredible parts of the movie. The way the audience jumped and screamed at the characters on screen got my blood pumping. It was this effect in Halloween that made me realize that I wanted to be a filmmaker.<br />
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Okay, what about that "every twenty years" theory? It's no coincidence that the current Halloween is subtitled H20, since the original Halloween was released in 1978. That one put its director, John Carpenter, on the map and kicked off the career of Jamie Lee Curtis as well (it was her first feature film). H20 has among its co-stars Jamie Lee's mom, Janet Leigh, who was the star victim of Alfred Hitchcock's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_%28film%29">Psycho</a>, released 18 years before Halloween in 1960 (and later to be redone in a faithful translation by Gus Van Sant). Carpenter's stated purpose in conceiving Halloween was that he wanted to create a picture that would play like a full-length version of the shower scene in Psycho.<br />
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Go back roughly twenty years from Psycho and you have the beginning of another Scary cycle in the early forties. A series of films produced by Val Lewton has a lot in common with what the Scary cycle of the nineties is going for - psychological horror with no monsters or creatures in sight. The great director Jacques Tourneur did more with camera angles, lighting and sound to chill the audience's bones with his masterpieces the original <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003757-cat_people/">Cat People</a> and his follow-up <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036027/">I Walked With a Zombie</a>. I command you to go out and rent these right now so you can see what I mean.</div>
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The first of these twenty-year cycles, just to round out my argument, goes back to Germany in the twenties. You won't be able to rent Paul Weggener's <a href="http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Str-Th/Der-Student-von-Prag.html">Student of Prague</a> or his series of films about the <a href="http://www.kinoeye.org/03/11/gelbin11.php">Golem</a>, a vengeful Jewish monster who haunted Czechoslovakia. But there is also The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and F.W. Murnau's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu">Nosferatu</a>, the original vampire story (with Max Schreck as the Vampire). And rounding out the cycle is <a href="http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/handsoforlac1924.htm">The Hands of Orlac</a>, with Caligari's Conrad Veidt, about a concert pianist who has the hands of a murderer grafted on after he loses his in an accident. The fright genre moved (along with a number of German filmmakers escaping the Nazis) to America for its next cycle, and it is also no great coincidence that another one of these German exports, Peter Lorre, made his American film debut in 1935 in a remake of Orlac called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Love_%281935_film%29">Mad Love</a>, another one that you must rent or seek out on cable TV.<br />
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PS, there’s also a neato keeno compendium of creature features here on the same site:<br />
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.... and in this photo gallery from The Hollywood Reporter:<br />
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Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-59368181591641109002013-12-23T01:58:00.001-08:002014-12-08T23:29:47.758-08:00Happy Purple Haze Christmas One and All – Pt. I<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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I came across this wonderful Christmas greeting (<b>Jimi Hendrix as Santa photo shoot for the Nashville Record Mirror</b>/ Photograph by © Dezo Hoffmann, December 1967) … from my friend <a href="http://jimihendrixonline.com/" rel="nofollow">David Pearcy</a>, a Hendrix iconographer extraordinaire with whom I collaborated on this little old magazine I edited called <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2369921881/" rel="nofollow">Guitar World</a>.<br />
In 1967 Jimi Hendrix posed as jolly Old Saint Nick for the Record Mirror newspaper to promote his then newest album, <b>Axis: Bold as Love.</b> The cover date of that issue was December 23, 1967 … and a video was shot on December 22nd, at one of the last truly “underground” events of the 60s held in London, the all-night “Christmas on Earth Continued” festival, which Hendrix headlined and also featured The Who, Traffic, Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett’s last gig with the group), Eric Burdon and the New Animals, The Move and Soft Machine.<br />
Two years later, in December of 1969, Hendrix, bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, The Band of Gypsys, were rehearsing at Baggy Studios in New York prior to their New Year’s concerts at the Fillmore East, where they recorded a Christmas medley of “Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><strong>Wherein Hendrix' True Believers Set the Record Straight … Again
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OK, so now we come to the <b>"author's message,"</b> as Firesign Theater used to tongue-in-cheekedly say, or was it Roy Lichtenstein? The author I am referring to is <b>Jimi Hendrix</b> himself, in this new book by my friend and former employer when I was Editorial Director of the Hendrix estate before it was shepherded by its eponymous half-sister.<br />
<b>Starting At Zero: His Own Story</b> is compiled by Alan Douglas, the former honcho of the Hendrix Estate with Peter Neal, a filmmaker who made "Hendrix" in 1967, the only documentary to be shown in Jimi's lifetime.<br />
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The book was first shown to me by my good friend and collaborator Roger Mayer, shown here with a Little Steven Rack System he designed.<br />
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Roger would regularly visit Jimi and also accompany him to studio sessions, concerts and jams in the months after the former Royal Navy engineer met the guitar player at a late-night gig. As a trusted and highly skilled accomplice he had considerable influence on the way Jimi's stuff was recorded, and the sounds that came from his guitar.
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As he had been for Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck before, and as he would become with Stevie Wonder, the Isley Brothers, George Clinton and Bob Marley, Roger was the "secret sauce," the mystery man behind the scenes of The Sound.
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Here is what Roger has to say about Alan Douglas' book, which, by the way was produced after much legal jousting for the rights to do the book and soon, a film based on it …
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… which presents the guitar legend's story in his own words, his vocal cadence, and really caught Jimi's soul:
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<i>After reading "Starting at Zero" you will have experienced a valuable insight into Jimi's love of people and music written in his own words. The upcoming biopic "All is By My Side" has already come into criticism by people close to Jimi for inaccuracy and fabrication of events that never happened. So please read the book first.
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Another pundit, Yogi Berra, once said, "You can observe a lot just by watching." He could have been talking about the ISBN information page frontispiece, which says, tellingly that … "No part of this book has been published with cooperation from Experienced Ltd., Al Hendrix or Janie Hendrix. It goes on to give "Special thanks to Nicky Page for design assistance."
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Coincidentally, Nicky is no relation to Nick Page, the husband of another Hendrix friend, Kathy Etchingham, Jimi's former girlfriend whose <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B009AIXGF4/kathetchtheof-20" rel="nofollow">"Through Gypsy Eyes"</a>
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… will be quoted in Part Deux of this essay. Kathy just told me that her book, which has been available in recent years as an e-book, will once again be brought out in a hard-cover edition.
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<b>See you in the next installment. Don't be late.</b>
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Stay tuned!Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-55823920041139762912013-11-09T01:39:00.001-08:002013-11-09T01:39:31.811-08:00Doc Feelgood: The Jimi Hendrix Documentary that Goes Down Easy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My first reaction – and that of most of my Hendrix-besotted friends who previewed this documentary in the plush confines of a screening room in Beverly Hills – was one of bliss. To be in that room with its state-of-the-art sound and pristine video ratio going back in the kundalini time machine and soaking up the Jimi juices of rare performance footage and interview chestnuts like the kimono-suited Dick Cavett interview, that was an experience to savor.</div>
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And so we came out of that theater in a state of nirvana that could only be described as a floating opera, Electric Ladyland to the max. All my psychedelicisized memories came floating back on the ether and I was floating along with them, looking at the world through rose-colored, er, purple-colored glasses. The documentary was deftly produced, a class act, and along with the well-researched performance footage, it brought in talking heads that didn't have that musty smell of reels recycled from countless clips. There were fresh takes from the likes of sound engineer Eddie Kramer, Paul McCartney, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Steve Winwood, Billy Gibbons, Dave Mason and some of the folks who knew Jimi or were associated with his career: costume designer Colette Mimram, record execs Joe Smith ("This was the Summer of Love, so you wouldn't do anything that was too outrageous for that crowd") and Bob Merlis, bff Faye Pridgon, Keith Richards galpal Linda Keith (who introduced Jimi to manager Chas Chandler) – and Chandler himself and other stalwarts from beyond the grave.</div>
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The screening confirmed my feeling about avoiding the ominous anniversary of Hendrix' death – September 18 – in favor of the date of his arrival on this Third Stone from the Sun: November 27, when I give thanks for this genius' brief shining flame on the guitar horizon. The little girl whose mom married Al Hendrix, Janie Hendrix, she too looks through those purple colored glasses when she reflects on the lanky guitar player who came back to Seattle to visit. As the executive producer of these recordings – and executrix of the estate – Janie has glossed over the legacy to include testimony from the anointed folks who pass muster with her crowd, and that is my solitary quibble.</div>
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It's understandable that the doc doesn't dwell on the forensics of Jimi's death, which have been disputed almost as long as their counterparts in and around Dealey Plaza in Dallas. But the history that is recorded by this august company omits the remembrances of some who are not kosher in the eyes of the new estate. Folks like record producer Alan Douglas, who guided the estate and promoted the posthumous Hendrix mystique before losing his job at the hands of Experience Hendrix LLC's lawyers; electronics genius Roger Mayer, who first introduced Hendrix to the wonderful world of effect pedals, in December 1966 and collaborated with the guitarist until Hendrix's death in 1970. Hendrix once called Mayer "the secret of my sound"; Kathy Etchingham, who lived with Hendrix in a flat on Brook Street and later wrote the memoir "Through Gypsy Eyes"; Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend, the guitarists most blown away by Hendrix' prowess when he came to town. You will hear reminiscences from Jimi's younger cousin Bob Hendrix but for some reason, nothing is heard from his brother Leon, who was cut out, it seems, from the legacy.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jimi and Kathy Etchingham in the flat on Brooke Street, London where they lived and which is from her book, <a href="http://www.kathyetchingham.com/jimi-hendrix-and-his-vintage-army-jacket/">"Through Gypsy Eyes"</a></td></tr>
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So while this documentary has some brilliant moments in an all-too-brief shining career, I couldn't help thinking when the film ended on another rare, mournful and delicious track, the 12-string rendition of the title track "Hear My Train A Comin’" that the train may have been a-comin' but it's passed us by.</div>
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Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-68032145456351034112013-09-06T19:16:00.001-07:002013-09-06T19:31:30.747-07:00Dexys "One Day I’m Going To Soar"<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/9690895076/">Dexys "One Day I’m Going To Soar"</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/">Doctor Noe</a> on Flickr.</span></div>
Kevin Rowland's still doin' it <a href="http://soundcloud.com/missingpiecegroup/sets/dexys-open-to-soar/s-94VLh" rel="nofollow">here</a><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F7713965" width="100%"> </iframe><br /><br />Dexys' "One Day I’m Going To Soar" will be released on September 3, 2013. It is quite a comeback for Kevin Rowland, who really never left. The Irish bad boy has mellowed a bit from the guy who once stole the tapes of his own record from EMI and held them for ransom until his band got some more money. <br /><br />"I did loads of stupid things, like the way I used to argue with EMI Records. I just look back to the time now and wonder how I would have reacted to some prick coming into my office shouting and kicking things," Rowland said in 1970.<br /><br />Kevin Antony Rowland (born August 17, 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and frontman for Dexys Midnight Runners (currently called Dexys), but the real crux of it is Kevin is Irish, and that is what he is still kicking about on this new one. With the poetry and pride of hindsight.<br /><br />My favorite Dexys Midnight Runners lp was "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels," the debut studio album by the band, released on July 11, 1980, through EMI Records. It made the "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" chart.<br /><br />Their signature look for their early recordings, consisting of donkey jackets and woolly hats, was inspired by New York dockworkers they saw in the film "On The Waterfront."<br /><br />Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (Official Music Video)<br /><a href="http://youtu.be/rVxcwe7EcaY" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/rVxcwe7EcaY</a><br /><br /><object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/rVxcwe7EcaY?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param>
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And that is a testament to the literary (Brendan Behan's ""Borstal Boy," for example) and cultural signposts that are referenced by this lot.<br />
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I'm dancing now.Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-3661785751282340742013-08-18T01:25:00.001-07:002013-08-18T01:44:55.788-07:00Robert Johnson Grave R.I.P. May 8, 1911 - August 16, 1938<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/9536565556/">Robert Johnson Grave R.I.P. May 8, 1911 - August 16, 1938</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/">Doctor Noe</a> on Flickr.</span></div>
<b>The Robert Johnson Photo Controversy</b> <br />
Dave Rubin, author of this fabulous book ... <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Johnson-New-Transcriptions/dp/0793589193/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361165650&sr=1-2&keywords=Road%20to%20Robert%20Johnson" rel="nofollow">Robert Johnson: The New Transcriptions</a>, is a great guitar instructor and scholar who really gets into the iconic history of his subjects.
More on that elsewhere. Meantime, notice on the cover photo … <br />
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… the absence of the cigarette in Robert's mouth, which was present in the original photo ... <br /> …
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… one of the other two known photographs of Johnson (aside from the recently discovered one with Johnny Shines), a postage stamp-size one thought to have been taken in a booth in the 1930s [the "photo booth" pic]. It was first published in Rolling Stone in 1986, the year that Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and shows him in a button-down shirt, staring directly at the lens. A cigarette hangs from his lips and his long fingers rest on a guitar neck.<br />
When the image was used to make an actual USPS postage stamp honoring Johnson, the ciggy was airbrushed out.<br />
Dave had <a href="http://www.facebook.com/dave.rubin.5/posts/130641477107391?comment_id=156567" rel="nofollow">this</a> to say about this picture …<br />
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" … when Fred Sokolow ("… my FB friends should know that Fred is one of the pioneer and premier authors of books and videos on blues, jazz, country, folk music, etc. A terrific performer, too. Please check him out.) asked, "How do you like the new photo with zoot suits?" <p></p>
Quoth Dave: "I like it a lot, Fred, and sincerely believe it to be RJ and Johnny Shines (his daughter agrees). I know the owner of the photo personally and saw it the day he received it after winning it on Ebay. I have been involved in helping him research it ever since then and was interviewed for a feature about the photo in <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/11/johnson200811" rel="nofollow">Vanity Fair</a> a few years back. As you may or may not know, the "blues police" went ballistic over the photo and have ramped up their attacks again since Getty got the rights …" <p></p>
This was back in February, and I pondered it, resolving to do something about it on my blog, wherein I also contributed to the literature about these photos: <p></p>
"… Thanks, Dave, did not know the level of your scholarship. I will have to update my <a href="http://doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/2011/03/robert-johnson-shines1935raw.html" rel="nofollow">blog entry</a> about this. I will post it here when I get done. Pierre de Beauport brought this up last week in a FB post. If you guys are not already friends, you should be. He was one of my guys at Guitar World along with Perry Margouleff."<p></p>
So here we will digress momentarily as Noe the G basks in the sunshine of Dave's love:<p></p>
<b>Dave Rubin:</b> "Noe, ever since you gave me my start in 1988 I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to author blues, classic rock, some jazz and country books for Hal Leonard (@ 80 and counting) as well as being musical director/player on a number of instructional DVDs and freelance writing for the mags. My FB friends should know that you are a pioneer in guitar journalism and publishing, put Guitar World on the map, are an ace blues harp player, a Hendrix expert, among other artists and the coolest <i>mensch</i> I know!"<p></p>
<b>Noe Gold:</b> "Thanks, Dave! I am still writing, watch for my article about a Jimi Hendrix biopic which quotes Kathy Etchingham and Roger Mayer, coming out in <a href="http://variety.com/2013/music/columns/perpetual-haze-encumbers-jimi-hendrix-biopics-1200004475/" rel="nofollow">Variety</a> this Thursday Feb. 21 and later on my <a href="http://doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-jimi-hendrix-biopic-experience.html" rel="nofollow">blog</a> Doctor Noe's Gadget.<p></p>
This exchange with Fred Sokolow fills us in on the players, Steve LaVere, Mack McCormick, the Getty Photo Agency:<p></p>
<b>Fred Sokolow:</b> "Dave, thanks for the kind words. I didn't know you were so involved in that photo. So somebody bought it on Ebay? I had read that one of Robert's heirs gave it to the Getty. So that's misinformation? By the way, do you know if the nieces (?) of Johnson who signed off on the publishing rights, to Steve LaVere, ever got any money from that CD project?"<p></p>
<b>Dave Rubin:</b> "Fred: My friend owns the original but sold the reproduction rights to Claude Johnson and his family. They in turn just licensed it to Getty for a set length of time, I think. I do not know the arrangement that Steve made with the half-sister, heirs, etc. I know he owns the rights to the other two photos (there is another studio/pinstripe suit photo that Mack McCormick owns, but has not been published). Steve owns copyrights to the tunes…"<p></p>
Right here, it would be good to fill you in, if you are interested, in why I am qualified to speak, aside from my credentials as the Founding Editor of Guitar World:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2567714905/" title="JimiGW-Cover 3-88 Guitar World, HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, VOL. II by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3049/2567714905_97256c6b5e_t.jpg" width="74" height="100" alt="JimiGW-Cover 3-88 Guitar World, HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, VOL. II"></a><p></p>
<b>Noe Gold:</b> "Hal Leonard put out a bunch of my JH books (and cd combo)…"<p></p>
<b>RazorRob Cole:</b> "Noe, would you mind defining JH please?"<p></p>
<b>Noe Gold:</b> James Marshall Hendrix <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jimi-Hendrix-Experience-Smash-Hits/dp/B000FPDDGS/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358980788&sr=1-7" rel="nofollow">"Smash Hits" Book by Noe Gold</a>
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This comment on YouTube is typical of the naysayers who doubt the "pinstripe photo" is really Robert:<p></p>
"… Is it not common knowledge that there are only two photographs of Robert Johnson in existence, and this has been the case for the last 70-odd years? Obviously the two are the "photo booth" image and the posed one with Gibson guitar and immaculate attire. Is the boy in the straw hat meant to be RJ? Because to me it doesn't look like him."
So a visit to the Vanity Fair Article would be in order:
<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/11/johnson200811" rel="nofollow">Searching for Robert Johnson</a>
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Only one known pic of Mr. Johnson?<p></p>
This whole discussion was engendered by my friend Pierre De Beauport:<p></p>
Pierre De Beauport 2-5-13:<p></p>
Robert Johnson Photo #3<p></p>
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151724710357785&set=a.10150116771327785.309801.642757784&type=1&theater<p></p>
and so, it looks like I will have to finally update my blog post, because, as Dave said …<p></p>
" … the "blues police" went ballistic over the photo and have ramped up their attacks again since Getty got the rights …"<p></p>
To put a final nail in it, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/03/robert-johnson-photograph-identified" rel="nofollow">this article</a> in the Guardian of 2-2-13 was fairly conclusive:<p></p>
Robert Johnson: rare new photograph of delta blues king authenticated after eight years.<p></p>
Forensic examination of old photo identifies the Mississippi guitarist … <p></p>
… Forensic work on the photograph began in 2007, when Lois Gibson, who found the identity of the sailor kissing the nurse in the Life magazine photo of Times Square on VJ day the second world war ended, has ruled that "it appears the individual is Robert Johnson. All the features are consistent, if not identical." The only differences, she added, were due to the angle of the camera or the lighting.<p></p>
That article does have this info about Dave Rubin's friend:<p></p>
"… The new photograph came to light eight years ago, when a classical guitarist called <b>Steven "Zeke" Schein</b> was searching eBay for an old guitar. He spotted a thumbnail picture with a caption that read "Old Snapshot Blues Guitar BB King???" and bought it. On inspection, neither man in the photograph looked like BB King, but Schein noticed the length of the man's fingers on the guitar and the way his left eye was narrower than his right.<p></p>
One of the other two known photographs of Johnson is postage stamp size and is thought to have been taken in a booth in the 1930s [the "photo both" pic]. <p></p>
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It was first published in Rolling Stone in 1986, the year that Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and shows him in a button-down shirt, staring directly at the lens. A cigarette hangs from his lips and his long fingers rest on a guitar neck.<p></p>
The second image was taken at the <b>Hooks Bros photographic studio</b> in Memphis. In it, Johnson sits cross-legged on a stool with his guitar, wearing a pin-striped suit and a tie. This portrait was used on the cover of Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings, the two-CD boxed set issued by Columbia Records in 1990.<p></p>
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Dave Rubin should have the last word on this discussion …<p></p>
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"… I like to refer to RJ as the 'story that never ends,'" he says, "Similar to Jimi (Noë!), people get a little crazy and possessive around him and weirdness occurs. …"
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<b>Bob Dylan - High Water (For Charley Patton) - 7.2.13<br />— in Memphis, TN</b><br /> - with Charlie Sexton back in da house on incredible lead guitar. It's a long way from Newport '65 to Memphis in July of '13, but surely worth the trip.<br /><br />This happened last night as I write this on the eve of Independence day. God bless you, Mr. Dylan!<br /><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=654542534575013" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />A tip of the Doctor Noe chapeau to my friend David Gahr. <br /><br /><br />David Gahr (b. September 18, 1922, d. May 25, 2008) was a pre-eminent photographer of folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians from the 1960s onwards. His output included posed photography and reportorial documents.<br /><br />The late David Gahr was one of the most highly acclaimed music photographers ever. Behind, or in front of, or some chess move away from every great musician, is a great photographer, hunched in the shadows. In the case of the greats of the 1960s and 70s -- whether it was Joplin, Lennon, or Dylan -- that person click-clicking somewhere nearby was probably David Gahr.<br /><br />David Gahr Collection of Photographs is held at V&A Department of Theatre and Performance<br /> <br />Reference Number: GB 71 THM/385<br />Dates of Creation: c.1960s-1970s<br /><br />This collection showcases some of his earlier work capturing folk music festivals and street musicians in America and England, including the concert at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, when Dylan went 'electric'.<br /><br /><br /><b>The Blues at Newport 1964 - Part 2</b><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/7205691914/" title="The Blues at Newport 1964 - Part 2_cov by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img alt="The Blues at Newport 1964 - Part 2_cov" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7205691914_201361c0ac_q.jpg" height="150" width="150" /></a><br /><br />Mississippi John Hurt<br />- Sliding Delta<br />- Bye And Bye I Will See Jesus<br />- Talking CaseyDoctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-84349869288629027942013-06-04T10:43:00.001-07:002013-06-04T10:43:45.945-07:00Catcher In the Wry<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/4359400733/" title="Catcher College Monthly spreadLO"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4069/4359400733_6e16682d8a.jpg" alt="Catcher College Monthly spreadLO by Doctor Noe" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/4359400733/">Catcher College Monthly spreadLO</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/">Doctor Noe</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p><br />So what do J.D. Salinger, John Lennon and Prince have in common, and what is the relevance to Rock and Roll?<br /><br />Funny how these things work out. I received an email regarding <a href="http://doctornoemedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/catcher-in-bourbon-parody.html" rel="nofollow">this post </a> from a gent named Thomas de Bruin of the Dutch design firm Studio Lomox:<br /><br /><i>This is a parody published by College Monthly October 1974.<br />© 2010 noemedia.<br />© 1974. All rights reserved under international conventions. No material may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher.<br /><br />Cover photo by Basil Pao<br />With retouching by Rainbow Graphics, body by Doug, hand by Noë of New York. T-shirt by Harry Gross; photo by UPI, lighting by Chris Callis, and body English by Tom King.</i><br /><br />In this issue:<br /><br /><b>"The Catcher in the Bourbon," a parody</b><br /><br />I edited this story back in 1974, and commissioned the art, etc. Our little publication was only limited to two highly collectible issues and was seen by not many people, but some of the things in this issue especially are memorable and – it turns out, highly prescient.<br /><br />This parody of "Catcher" by Bill Majeski is a case in point. And then there is the cover story by Nat Hentoff on Lenny Bruce and a nice article on Miles Davis, bebop and new jazz by moi, <b>Noe the G.</b><br /><br />I've created a deluxe limited edition, signed and numbered, of this Salinger tribute. It's a collector's edition, based on a facsimile of the original, printed on TWO SHEETS OF 8.5" x 14" PREMIUM CARD STOCK.<br /><br />Please contact me at noemedia@me.com and I will send you info on how to get one.<br /><br /><br />"I’m researching the artwork of Prince’s albums," said DeBruin, "and I’m currently focusing on a photo Chris Callis and Basil made together in 1979.<br /><br />"Looking for Rainbow Graphics, the NYC company that that did a lot of photo retouching in the late 70s and early 80s, I stumbled upon your article on http://www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/2010/02/the-catcher-in-the-bourbon-a-parody/<br /> <br />"Do you know if Rainbow Graphics still exists, or can you direct me to anyone who used to work there? I only know its owners at the time were called Russell and Frank. But I can’t find any trace of the company.<br /><br />" It was in fact Basil who mentioned to me that Rainbow Graphics did the actual retouching. But I believe Basil also doesn’t know how to contact them.<br /> <br />"So, I’ll just keep looking. :-)."<br /><br />He will need to look for quite some time because Basil Pao is In Hong Kong and doesn't really want to be found. My buddy Bas was the genius behind some of the cooler album cover designs in the days when such things mattered:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/5244313551/" title="basil and john by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5163/5244313551_9f85b2f143_z.jpg" width="470" height="640" alt="basil and john"></a><br /><br />John Lennon by Dave Gahr <br /><br />Pics are taken by my friend Dave Gahr with my buddy Basil Pao. I think they were done for an album project as Basil was a designer of same in those days, but also a friend of John. He did a lot of work with Dave who I met long before in Matt Umanov's guitar store on Bedford Street. Special thanks to Mary Anne Erickson for resurrecting these from the bin of memories.<br /><br />By Dave Gahr:<br />James TAYLOR, with Peter Asher and Danny Kortchmar, Central Park, 1970<br />© DAVID GAHR, 1970<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/8942526798/" title="James Taylor by D. Gahr_#4-SURPRINT by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2844/8942526798_cab2b6355d_z.jpg" width="640" height="524" alt="James Taylor by D. Gahr_#4-SURPRINT"></a><br /><br />These were also used in a magazine article. Reference is below:<br /><br />Lennon w BasilPao x Dave Gahr_6<br />From the June 2004 issue of Mojo<br />entitled "A Day in the Life: Hell's Kitchen October 24, 1974<br />blogged by <a href="http://www.childofnaturebeatles.blogspot.com/2006/06/hells-kitchen-nyc-1974.html" rel="nofollow">www.childofnaturebeatles.blogspot.com/2006/06/hells-kitch...</a><br /><br />The enterprising Dutch designer, in his search for that <a href=http://chriscallis.com/" rel="nofollow">Chris Callis</a> photo, found this:<br /><br /><b>Prince - Prince (Vinyl, LP, Album)<br />Photography By [Back Cover] – Chris Callis</b><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/8916384209/" title="ChrisCallis PrinceAlbumBackCover-3276 by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3769/8916384209_9cd55f723e.jpg" width="500" height="497" alt="ChrisCallis PrinceAlbumBackCover-3276"></a><br /><br />Photography By [Front Cover] – Jurgen Reisch*<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/8916384295/" title="Prince AlbumCover Front-8232 by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3809/8916384295_2e2ecfbff2.jpg" width="500" height="496" alt="Prince AlbumCover Front-8232"></a><br /><br />... an interesting bit of vinyl at that:<br /><br />Prince - Prince (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs<br />http://www.discogs.com/Prince-Prince/release/1825293<br /><br /><br />more images<br />Prince – Prince<br />Label:<br />Warner Bros. Records – QBS 3366<br />Format:<br />Vinyl, LP, Album <br />Country:<br />Canada<br />Released:<br />1979<br />Genre:<br />Rock, Funk / Soul<br />Style:<br />Funk, Disco<br />Tracklist▼<br />A1 I Wanna Be Your Lover5:47<br />A2 Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?3:49<br />A3 Sexy Dancer4:18<br />A4 When We're Dancing Close And Slow5:18<br />B1 With You3:59<br />B2 Bambi4:22<br />B3 Still Waiting4:24<br />B4 I Feel For You3:24<br />B5 It's Gonna Be Lonely5:30<br />Companies etc▼<br />Manufactured By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.<br />Distributed By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.<br />Recorded At – Alpha Studios, Burbank<br />Remixed At – Hollywood Sound Recorders<br />Mastered At – A&M Mastering Studios<br />Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc.<br />Credits▼<br />Engineer – Gary Brandt<br />Engineer [Assistant] – Mark Ettel<br />Mastered By – Bernie Grundman<br />Photography By [Back Cover] – Chris Callis<br />Photography By [Front Cover] – Jurgen Reisch*<br />Remix – Bob Mockler, Prince<br />Written-By, Producer, Arranged By, Composed By, Performer – Prince<br />Notes▼<br />Heaven sent helpers: Bobby Z and Andre Cymone.<br />On labels: <br />℗ 1979 Warner Bros. Records Inc.<br />Barcode and Other Identifiers▼<br />Matrix / Runout (Runout A): QBS-3366-A JW<br />Matrix / Runout (Runout B): QBS-3366-B JW<br />Other Versions (Showing 5 of 22) View All ▼<br />Title, FormatLabelCat#CountryYear<br />Prince (LP, Album)Warner Bros. RecordsBSK 3366US1979<br />_________________________________<br /><br />See, that is how all things are related!<br /><br />None of this would have been possible without the inimitable help of my partner in crime, Ken Anderson, who replaced Basil as the Art Director of College Monthly right after this issue was published:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/4359400675/" title="Catcher College Monthly P.3&covLO by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4004/4359400675_23137fafa4.jpg" width="500" height="339" alt="Catcher College Monthly P.3&covLO"></a><br /><br /><br />Ken had the skinny on Rainbow Graphics:<br /><br />Subject: Re: Rainbow Graphics<br /> <br />Rainbow Graphics was Basil's call, so I assume an Atlantic Recs vendor. Catcher was last published issue before me. I inherited next issue 1/2 done; stacks of typeset galleys w/ no layouts--and no cover retouching before the wheels buckled during takeoff. Did one photo shoot-- C. Callis/ color white-on-white egg for background of next Contents. I was in NYC all too briefly.<br /> <br />-Ken<br /> <br />Sadly, the issue that Ken designed never saw print. <br /><br />That's how it goes in the publishing biz.</p>Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-15342016260968960652013-05-02T10:08:00.001-07:002013-05-02T10:08:18.610-07:00Frank Zappa - Soup, old Clothes and the guitars from Hell<br />
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<i>This post inspired by the inimitable Dot Stein (http://www.facebook.com/drdot), who, on 9-19-10 said:</i><br />
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<blockquote>"… had a dream that Dweezil Zappa was putting Frank's face and logo on everything you could imagine: games, clothes, drinks, to make money. I woke up covered in a cold sweat."</blockquote><br />
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... and my commentary auf Deutsch:<br />
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Dieses war ein Photo von meinen guten freund Jon Livzey und auch neben an meinen Projeckt was heisst The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa" Bitte Googlen sie: Doctor Noe's Gadget: Zappa's Inferno – "from an interview first published in Guitar World April 1987 on the occasion of the release of THE GUITAR WORLD ACCORDING TO FRANK ZAPPA distributed by Guitar Galaxy in association with Barking Pumpkin<br />
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Zappa by Noe the G. - Guitar World, April 1987<br />
Zappa's Inferno<br />
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By Noë the G"<br />
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Best little-known Zappa recordings were produced by Noe the G, Founding Editor of Guitar World via Guitar Galaxy as a special audio cassette (remember those?):<br />
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<b>Liner Notes from THE GUITAR WORLD ACCORDING TO FRANK ZAPPA</b><br />
<a href="http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/misc/guitarworld.html">http://lukpac.org/~handmade/patio/misc/guitarworld.html</a><br />
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<i>[Posted to alt.fan.frank-zappa by Dave Lane on March 19 1996 [nostalgic internet message header :)], slightly edited and HTML-enhanced for readabilty and clarity by Bossk (R), and annotated by us and our chosen cast.]</i><br />
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Frank was #19 on my list of top twenty guitarists posted on Dario's wall three years ago(!). The pic on the German-posted video was from my good buddy and collaborator Jon Livzey, and relates to my collaboration with Gail, <b>The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa</b>.<br />
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Here is my top ten:<br />
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1. 1. Jimi<br />
2. 2. Jeff Beck<br />
3. 3. Jimmy Page<br />
4. 4. Eric Clapton<br />
5. 5. Eddie Van Halen<br />
6. 6. Sandy Bull<br />
7. 7. Elmore James<br />
8. 8. John McLaughlin<br />
9. 9. Jimmy Nolan<br />
10. 10. Carlos Santana<br />
11. 11. Stevie Ray Vaughan<br />
12. 12. Albert King<br />
13. 13. Joe Satriani<br />
14. 14. Mike Stern<br />
15. 15. Jaco Pastorius (bass guitar)<br />
16. 16. Robert Johnson<br />
17. 17. John Lee Hooker<br />
18. 18. Merle Travis<br />
19. 19. Frank Zappa<br />
20. 20. Adrian Belew<br />
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and finally, harken back with me to an earlier post on Doctor Noe's Gadget:<br />
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FZ in GW April 87 P.2<br />
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This illustration is page 2 of my article on Frank Zappa Guitar World April 87 described here:<br />
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This issue contains my interview with Frank, available in text form at the link below:<br />
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Noe G. Zappa Interview Guitar World, April 1987<br />
<a href="http://home.online.no/~corneliu/gw487.htm" rel="nofollow">home.online.no/~corneliu/gw487.htm</a><br />
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<b>Zappa's Inferno</b><br />
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By Noë Goldwasser<br />
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FRANK ZAPPA'S FULLY-EQUIPPED HOME RECORDING STUDIO is where he'd most rather be. "I never go out," he says, though his Laurel Canyon home commands a panoramic view of Los Angeles. "I could be just as happy if all this" - gesturing toward the array of equipment that surrounds him in this devil's advocate's workshop-"were in Utah. Except for the fact that the hardware and technicians are available in the L.A. area, and the stuff can be serviced here." The fact is, all Frank really wants to do is work.<br />
Whether he acknowledges it or not, Zappa has been admired by guitarists for years because of the sheer free-flying gonzo-ness of his solos within the otherwise-precise organization of his compositions. He's always been a real Mother of a player. As a bandleader, his draconian insistence on perfection has brought out the best in his players, especially the guitarists he has introduced to the world through his succession of hands: Lowell George, Adrian Belew, Warren Cuccurullo and Steve Vai all cut their teeth in Zappa's marching society.<br />
We thought about this-your editor, Noe the G., and Associate Publisher Greg Di Benedetto-as we descended with Frank into the bowels of his private inferno-otherwise known as the United Muffin Research Kitchen (U.M.R.K.).<br />
Our purpose was to plan the Guitar World According To Frank Zappa tape-a 34-minute collection of rare Zappa solos on a special GW audio cassette which this magazine will make available in the spring-and to talk about guitar stuff.<br />
Well, Frank was perfectly poised to talk about guitar and to play us some of the hours of great solos he has on all those tapes in his vault. But as far as performing on the instrument, we were surprised to discover, the guitar guru has been getting his playing jollies from entering notes and manipulating them with his Synclavier. For various reasons you will hear in his own words in this interview, Frank hadn't played serious guitar in two years (the last recorded example of Frank playing will be available on our Guitar World According To Frank Zappa tape). He'd even lost his callouses!<br />
But fear not, dear reader. Zappa had plenty to say about playing guitar and where the instrument is going. And, believe us, there's reams of guitar in Frank's vaults, which he continues to classify and release to the public as long as the demand is there, through his own Barking Pumpkin organization. The Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar collections did quite well worldwide, so you can expect more to be released in the future.<br />
And we hear that since our talk with Frank, he's been building up his callouses and thinking about going back on the road with his guitar and a band. The moral: you can take the Zappa out of guitar playing, but it'll take a long time to get all the guitar playing out of Frank Zappa.<br />
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<b>Noe Gold:</b> Let me get a level on the tape recorder say, "The poodle bites." <br />
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<b>Frank Zappa:</b> The poodle chews it.<br />
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<b>Noe Gold:</b> Come on, Frenchie! Do you see a conceptual continuum between, say, "Call Any Vegetable" and Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar? Or between the Mothers 0f Invention and the Mothers of Prevention? <br />
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<b>Frank Zappa:</b> There are some links, yeah. The main drawback of the medium I'm working in is, until I got the computer I was locked into making music based on the assets and/or liabilities of the guys in the band. In other words, if you want to write something that's faster than what the guys can play, you can't hear it, because they can't play it that fast. Or if you want something for an instrumentation that you don't have in the band, then you won't hear it. But now that I can do it with a computer, that's not a problem anymore.<br />
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[read the whole interview here:<br />
<a href="http://home.online.no/~corneliu/gw487.htm" rel="nofollow">home.online.no/~corneliu/gw487.htm</a><br />
Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-10082723842909408322013-04-20T13:38:00.001-07:002013-04-20T13:38:50.415-07:00Yiddish Rock Stars: GEDDY LEE<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/8665512903/" title="GeddyLee-KevinWinter_4-20-13"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8240/8665512903_87cab7bdf9.jpg" alt="GeddyLee-KevinWinter_4-20-13 by Doctor Noe" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/8665512903/">GeddyLee-KevinWinter_4-20-13</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/">Doctor Noe</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Mazel Tov, Boychik!<br /><br />Rush, Heart, Public Enemy and Randy Newman were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night.<br /><br />Geddy Lee is really Gary, but his immigrant grandmother (of yiddishkeit persuasion) could only pronounce as Geddy. A tip of the Noe Yarmulkeh to Deborah Frost for that tidbit.<br /><br />This kinda takes me back to sometime in the late eighties, when I was travelling on a mission from God (or Guitar World anyway). John Swenson was on board to do the interview and I was kibbitzing as the editor.<br /><br />Geddy and I compared notes on being sons of Holocaust survivors backstage as we waited for the photographer to set up. He in Toronto and me in little old New Yawk shared the same deep roots known as Child of Holocaust Survivors syndrome. Many Yiddishisms were pronounced on that day. And so I say unto you, Geddaleh, Mazel Tov, boychik!<br /><br /><br />You can see it all in my Yiddish Glossary for Goyim:<br /><br /><b>boychik</b> (boy-chick) fella [literally, "little boy," but in essence more endearing than derogatory]<br />"Hey, boychik, meet me at the Grill in Beverly Hills. We'll hoist a few and have some laughs. No agenda, just face time."<br /><br /><b>baitsim</b> (bayt-tzim) testicles; literally, eggs<br />"Keep your baitsim in your pants. Last I heard you were a married man."<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/YiddishGlossaryForGoyim" rel="nofollow">www.facebook.com/YiddishGlossaryForGoyim</a><br />Noë Gold's "Yiddish Glossary for Goyim" is now published as an ebook and a hard copy. The ebook is available from amazon.com, described here: <br /><br /><a href="http://t.co/q7VAeEhF" rel="nofollow">t.co/q7VAeEhF</a>. <br /><br />Hard copy: $12 per directly from the author: noemedia@me.com.</p>Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-32713550207432669052013-03-21T02:43:00.001-07:002013-12-30T16:29:59.376-08:00SRV: Cold Shot<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/8576202899/">SRV by Jonnie Signed</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/">J</a>onnie Miles on Flickr.</span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">© Jonnie Miles. From a series of photos taken backstage at Colgate University on April 29, 1988. </span><br />
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Photographer Jonnie Miles and I were on a road trip as I recall, and the memory is vivid with me as if it were being replayed on some cosmic movie projector.<br />
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I was first introduced to the genius of Stevie Ray Vaughan by the writer Bill Milkowski, who championed the plumed genius from Austin in dispatches for this little old magazine I edited called <a href="http://www.stevieray.com/images-a/4sale/autog-gw-85.jpg" rel="nofollow">Guitar World</a>. Once he got signed to Epic Records, the SRV Peanut Gallery was taken over by his indefatigable under assistant promo man, Charlie Comer.<br />
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Fast-forward to 1988 and by the gracious auspices of Stevie's road manager Skip Rickert, I was standing in the driveway of the upstate New York college waiting for a tour bus to roll in. I was there to greet the man, have a chat and then basically hang out and watch the concert as Jonnie Miles and Milkowski did the reportage heavy lifting. The privileges of editorship.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/7994818036/" title="SRV GW Sept. 1988-BLUES_COV by Doctor Noe, on Flickr"><img alt="SRV GW Sept. 1988-BLUES_COV" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8450/7994818036_931663dfbc_z.jpg" width="473" /></a><br />
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I climbed up onto the bus and went inside to shake the man's calloused hand. Stevie was gentle and humble, emanating a spiritual equanimity that was not too far from the vibe I'd felt from encounters with some acidheads I'd known who'd been born again. Except the pre-enlightenment breakfast of this champion had been a cocktail of whiskey and cocaine.<br />
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SRV looked through me with a clear-eyed gaze. He was proud to tell me of his sobriety, and that is what we talked about for a few minutes more before he went to soundcheck.<br />
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The University's people had set up a sort of craft services table in the cafeteria of the Student Union building for the band and crew. I lined up with the band members with my plastic tray to pick up my plate of meatballs and spaghetti. Just ahead of me was Stevie's bass player, a hulking six-footer named Tommy Shannon. As he approached the student volunteer who was ladling out the comestibles, Tommy had a question: "Does this meat sauce have any alcohol in it?" <br />
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Only once he was assured that it did not, did he heap his plate with Italian-style food. Everybody in the band, he told me, was on the wagon with SRV, and that extended to even trace amounts of alcohol in food items.<br />
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That night's concert was the last time of many that I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan perform, drunk or sober. Of course, it was perfect.<br />
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<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/8536880515/">Jimi_34 Montagu SquareKathyEtchingham</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/">Doctor Noe</a> on Flickr.</span></div>
My article in Daily Variety, March 7, 2013:<br />
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This is one case where the overly micromanaging Janie Hendrix should have held off. A proper film about Jimi might have resulted. The previous production that she scared off would have been directed by Paul Greengrass (“The Bourne Ultimatum”), a respected and respectful director, and produced by Thomas Tull "(It Might Get Loud"), who would not go forward without the proper music.<br />
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That one is now just a castle made of sand.<br />
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<b>Noe Gold: Jimi Hendrix Biopic | Variety_3-7-13</b><br />
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<big><span style="color: red;"><br /><br /><b>The Jimi Hendrix Biopic Experience: Perpetual Haze</b><br /><br />'All Is By My Side' treads careful path on rights issues, real-life personalities</span></big><br />
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By Noë Gold<br />
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The road to mounting a Jimi Hendrix biopic has been long and winding, frequently stalled by the roadblock that stood in the way — Experience Hendrix LLC, the estate’s tightly controlled rights and marketing organization, whose CEO is Janie Hendrix, the adopted daughter of Hendrix’s late father — without whose cooperation no Hendrix-penned music can be used in a film.<br />
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As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for.<br />
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“All Is By My Side,” shot last summer in Ireland and current in post, is doing exactly that. With Andre Benjamin (aka Andre 3000) starring as Hendrix, Hayley Atwell as his live-in London love Kathy Etchingham and Imogen Poots as Linda Keith, the film focuses on Hendrix’s pre-stardom period in swinging London. The biopic has not received permission from the Hendrix estate to use any of his music, and some of the guitarist’s associates are fuming that they were left out of the loop.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">• André Benjamin with Hayley Atwell (who plays Kathy Etchingham) in a still from "All Is By My Side."</span><br />
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With the help of music supervisor Danny Bramson, who is also a producer, the film is using its cover as an origins story to feature music not written by Hendrix but rather songs by artists including the Beatles, Muddy Waters and Chip Taylor (“Wild Thing”), which Benjamin has recorded for the soundtrack.<br />
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You won’t be hearing “The Wind Cries Mary” in this film, and the woman for whom that song was written, Etchingham, is not pleased by the prospect of the film’s release or about how she is portrayed in it. She said she was not consulted about the storyline.<br />
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Etchingham said she contacted the filmmakers and offered help but did not get a reply. “I later read in the Independent that Hayley Atwell was playing my character and that I would be portrayed as a ‘wild child’ who swore in every line. I felt that it would not be an accurate portrayal.”<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">• Jimi & Kathy Etchingham in the flat on Brooke Street, London where they lived and which is from her book, "Through Gypsy Eyes"</span><br />
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The article she cites describes Atwell’s account of the movie, in which she commented on playing Etchingham as a working-class Mancunian who was a “chain-smoking wild child” with a “tempestuous relationship with Jimi.”<br />
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Etchingham’s reaction: “Firstly, I am not from Manchester. I am actually Irish … my father’s family were prosperous Irish landowners and owned property in Dublin and Wexford. They could not be described as working-class. I am not prone to swear all the time. I was not a ‘wild child’ like other ‘rock chicks.’ My friends used to tell me how sensible I was.<br />
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“I don’t know where the screenwriter got this misinformation from. I’m sure a good film could be done about his London days, but it would probably be better in collaboration with people who actually knew Jimi personally, like me and Roger Mayer, Madeline Bell, etc.”<br />
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Mayer, the former British Navy engineer and close Hendrix personal friend who has been credited with co-creating the guitarist’s signature sound, noted that scenes in the film seem to depict Hendrix as a domestic abuser. “It seems these naughty filmmakers haven’t researched anything properly,” he said.<br />
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It has been 43 years since Jimi Hendrix died at the age of 27. To date, only documentaries, such as 1973’s “Jimi Hendrix,” which features the real personalities and live performances of the people in Hendrix’s life, including his father, Al Hendrix, Mick Jagger, bassist Billy Cox and Eric Clapton, have been produced.<br />
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Laurence Fishburne was close to mounting a biopic in 1993 based on the David Henderson biography, “‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky” with himself in the title role. But since he could not use Hendrix’s music, the pic never got made. Since then, prospective projects featuring Eddie Murphy, Will Smith and even Prince have failed to cohere.<br />
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The most recent project to have tried and failed was a Legendary Pictures effort in 2011 with director Paul Greengrass (“The Bourne Ultimatum”) attached. But because the estate would not give Legendary topper Thomas Tull its blessing to use Hendrix songs such as “Foxy Lady,” “Voodoo Child” and “Purple Haze,” Tull opted not to proceed.<br />
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Janie Hendrix had this to say at the time: “When we do the Jimi Hendrix feature film bio, we will be involved and in control from the beginning.”<br />
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Representatives from Experience Hendrix did not respond to requests for comment.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">FILED UNDER: HAYLEY ATWELL; JIMI HENDRIX; KATHY ETCHINGHAM</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Kathy Etchingham BBC interview:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Kathy Etchingham book:</b></span><br />
<a href="http://www.kathyetchingham.com/jimi-hendrix-and-his-vintage-army-jacket/" rel="nofollow">www.kathyetchingham.com/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>To read about Montagu Square click on the link below.</b></span><br />
<a href="http://www.kathyetchingham.com/34-montagu-square/" rel="nofollow">www.kathyetchingham.com/34-montagu-square/</a><br />
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Roger Mayer's page:<br />
http://www.facebook.com/rogermayerfx<br />
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To read more about Roger - click on the link below.<br />
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<a href="http://www.kathyetchingham.com/roger-mayer-and-jimi-hendrix/" rel="nofollow">www.kathyetchingham.com/roger-mayer-and-jimi-hendrix/ </a><br />
http://www.kathyetchingham.com/roger-mayer-and-jimi-hendrix/<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine/">www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine/</a>Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-59445081521846619622013-02-09T22:36:00.001-08:002013-02-09T22:44:45.868-08:00Experience Music Project Hardhat Tour April, 2000<div style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0;">
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<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2563250152/">Experience Music Project Hardhat Tour April, 2000</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/">Doctor Noe</a> on Flickr.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This is from a hardhat tour I took of the Experience Music Project in Seattle as it was nearing completion April, 2000.<br /><br />Note the Guitar World Special Issue Sept. 1985, edited by yours truly, Noë the G.<br /><br />I wrote about it in this article, which was syndicated by the BPI Newswire but has somehow disappeared from cyberspace. Now it's back.</i></span><br /><br /><b>Experience This / A first look at Paul Allen's ambitious rock'n' roll temple</b><br /><br />The Hollywood Reporter<br />June 13, 2000<br /><br /><b>By Noë Gold</b><br />All photos by Noë Gold<br /><br />The high walls of the Sky Church are rumbling, literally shaking with a presence that is not of this Earth.<br /><br />On the physical plane, the cavernous exhibition hall sits in Seattle, a few yards from the terminus of the monorail that links the city's downtown to its monolithic Space Needle.<br /><br />On the spiritual plane, Jimi Hendrix, the avatar of guitar-driven rock 'n' roll who first asked "Are You Experienced?" is very much in the house -- a gleaming, new house that media mogul Paul G. Allen has built to honor popular American music.<br /><br />The Sky Church is the spiritual centerpiece of the soon-to-open Experience Music Project, a massive museum designed by famed architect Frank O. Gehry to enclose 140,000 square feet of free-flowing, music-related exhibits on a 35,000 square-foot plot of land carved out of the city's once-grand Seattle Center.<br /><br />The references to the Seattle-born Hendrix are intentional. The museum's mission, its founders say, is to have people experience the music. Come June 23, the first paying guests will find out what's going on inside the twisted, sky blue and magenta-hued piece of architecture that has been under construction since 1997.<br /><br />The Sky Church concept is taken from one of Hendrix's dreams, in which he described a place where all diverse people could come together to appreciate music. The space fulfills Hendrix's prophecy by doubling as a grand exhibition hall by day and a performance space at night.<br /><br />The EMP itself can be described as a museum with aspects of a theme park, through which people will take a "ride" amid the cultural artifacts that celebrate the blues-based, soul-inflected, rockabilly roots of American music.<br /><br />More than 800,000 are expected to visit the nonprofit facility each year, with top ticket prices set at $19.95.<br /><br />The museum opens with a party that will include musical performances by James Brown, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eminem and Snoop Dogg, Alanis Morissette, Eurythmics and Bo Diddley. MTV and VH1 will televise much of the hoopla.<br /><br />Jody Patton, the EMP's co-founder and executive director and Allen's sister, dates the museum's genesis to 1992, when she and her brother attended a Sotheby's auction of rock 'n' roll memorabilia.<br /><br />"Paul was intrigued by the artifacts," she says, "and we did the bidding. When the pieces arrived, we gingerly unpacked these things and we were in awe of how the spirit of the person who used them becomes imbued in the personal article. Paul said, 'If I think this stuff is really neat, then other people will be moved as well.'"<br /><br />In Allen's longhair days, he played a Fender guitar. The obsession continues, except today Allen owns the Stratocaster that Hendrix played at Woodstock in 1969. And a whole lot of other stuff -- 80,000 artifacts, in fact, now reside here. More than 1,200 of them will be on display at at any given time.<br /><br />The EMP's Hendrix Gallery enshrines the contract signed by the musician for Woodstock, revered objects of Hendrix's outrageous clothing and Allen's version of pieces of the cross: fragments of a guitar Hendrix smashed and burned at 1967's Monterey International Pop Festival.<br /><br />The Guitar Gallery gives museum-style prominence to artifacts of rock like an early electric lap steel guitar, a Gibson Flying V prototype and axes played by the likes of the Byrds' Roger McGuinn and bluesman Tampa Red. There is a trumpet from Quincy Jones' early days in Seattle and song lyrics by another Seattlite, the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain. Bob Dylan's harmonica and Janis Joplin's pants are there, too.<br /><br />A recent hard-hat tour reveals EMP is no mere memorabilia collection. Flat-screen monitors and interactive displays are everywhere. A snaking corridor leads to the "Crossroads" exhibit, the main exhibition area, where disparate musicians like Hendrix, hip-hop and Bing Crosby meet via multimedia.<br /><br />Patrons can also wander into hands-on personal studios, where they can try their hands at keyboards, drums and guitars.<br /><br />The facility is truly wired, with organizers especially proud of the flooring itself, a raised platform made of modular concrete slabs that can be removed and bolted down to give technicians access to miles of high-definition optical cable and ISDN lines.<br /><br />Via a modular data processing unit called a MEG, visitors can zoom in on various exhibits and receive data about what they are seeing. They can then download bookmarks that may be accessed later.<br /><br />In researching his designs for the building, Gehry visited a music store and looked at guitars, bringing some home and deconstructing them. "It's not supposed to be a smashed-up guitar," says EMP's design and construction project manager, Paul Zumwalt, who created the Portland Trail Blazers' Rose Garden basketball arena, another Paul Allen edifice. "It's about the spirit of the music, with its flow and movement."<br /><br />Originally, the monorail was supposed to stop short of the building. But when Gehry saw that the monorail bisected the site, he began to play.<br /><br />Allen and his sister wanted an architectural design that "could literally express the way we respond to the music." And the music she was describing is anything but conventional. Allen used the word "swoopy."<br /><br />Swoopy is what they got. There is not a right angle in the place. Neighbors who watched the building come together were mystified by what looked like a jumble of curved metallic sections reaching up into the sky.<br /><br />"What appealed to me about Frank," Patton says of the architect," was his commitment to exploring the process. ... His designs go to a new place aesthetically -- the curves. It is a living, moving, organic thing."<br /><br />Kind of like Electric Ladyland.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2567714905/"></a>Doctor Noehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13371103270307602230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5967295637279911989.post-52334821070495374372012-12-29T01:58:00.001-08:002012-12-29T01:58:46.908-08:00<br />
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<a href="http://thebuddhadiaries.blogspot.com/2012/12/ive-been-hearing-that-my-blog-is-missed.html?m=1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Memo to The Buddha Diaries</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Peter Clothier is an author and a scholar whom I respect. I posted this comment on his exemplary The Buddha Diaries Blog in order to make a point about my own humble scribblings.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Peter, I have published a book today as well. I was hoping you'd have a look-see (only $4.99, cheap, as the fershlugginer editors of Mad magazine used to say) and perhaps write me up a nice testimonial so I could help spread the word about it. I really am proud of it.</span><br />
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