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July 17, 2007
Dylan: (laughing) On this earth and the world we can’t see.
In 1978, Dylan attended a home Bible study with girlfriend Mary Alice. She had recently “re-dedicated her life to Christ” and was concerned that she was living with an unsaved man who was not her husband.
Dylan
Animated by John Wilson, Fine Arts Films
She invited two assistant pastors from the Hollywood Vineyard Church (associated with the Vineyard Christian Fellowship) to visit Dylan’s home.
Dylan
Serve Somebody + Acceptance speech 1980
The Vineyard Fellowship, to which Dylan's girlfriend Mary Alice Artes introduced him in late 1978, was a small evangelical church that peddled a New Age, born-again version of Christianity. It had been found in Los Angeles in 1974 by Ken Gulliksen, who had previous been a singer on the Christian Music circuit. The church's style was informal. Gulliksen took services dressed in his shorts and counted a number of LA musicians among his congregation, including T-Bone Burnett, Steven Soles and David Mansfield, all of whom had played on Dylan's
Rolling Thunder Tour.
Dylan
meeting fans bbc
Bob and Mary Alice enrolled in the Vineyard Fellowship's School of Discipleship, attending Bible class most weekday mornings for more than three months at the beginning of 1979. At first Bob thought there was no way that he could devote so much time to the project; he felt he had to get back on the road. Soon, though, he found himself awake at 7 A.M., compelled to get up and drive to the real estate office in Reseda where Bible classes were held. "I couldn't believe I was there," he said.
Dylan
Gotta Serve Somebody movieDylan’s testimony was as follows:
“One thing led to another ... until I had this feeling, this vision and feeling. I truly had a born-again experience, if you want to call it that. It’s an over-used term, but it’s something that people can relate to”
Dylan
in the garden
It was during this late winter/spring period of 1979 that Mary Alice Ares was baptized in a swimming pool at Pastor Bill's house.
"This was total immersion. Because baptism is a symbol of burial, burying guilt, and then pulling the new man out of the water," says Pastor Kenn. Bob attended the baptism and, not long afterward, Bob was himself baptized, probably in the ocean, which was where the fellowship normally conducted baptisms. By being immersed in water, Bob became, in common parlance, a born-again Christian, though he would later shrink from the term, claiming he had never used it. Yet he was clearly quoted in a 1980 interview with trusted Los Angeles Times journalist Robert Hilburn saying: "I truly has a born-again experience, if you want to call it that. It's an overused term, but it's something that people can relate to."
From: rankflv
Concert # 24 of the First Gospel TourBob's conversion to Christianity also caused considerable upset to his own children, who had been raised in the Jewish faith. Suddenly, packs of journalists were following their father to the Vineyard Fellowship in the hope of getting pictures of him going to a Christian church, and then staking out his home. The children saw this commotion when they visited their father. It was embarrassing and one of the few times when his celebrity was a problem in their lives.
From: 14ligjyahoo
Bob Dylan 1975-1981 Rolling Thunder & The Gospel Years Promomotional TrailerIn the fall of 1983, Bob's seventeen-year-old son Jesse had a belated bar mitzvah in Jerusalem- Jakob and Samuel had already been bar mitzvahed in California- and Bob was photographed wearing a yarmulke at the Wailing Wall, adding to speculation that he had returned to Judaism. "As far as we're concerned, he was a confused Jew," Rabbi Kasriel Kastel told Christianity Today. "We feel he's coming back." In fact, Jesse was on vacation in Israel with his grandmother, Beatty, when they discovered a bar mitzvah could be conducted quickly and easily at the Wailing Wall and Bob simply flew in to play his part. He still believed Jesus Christ was the Messiah, and kept a broadly Christian outlook, although he had not maintained regular contact with the Vineyard Fellowship since the early flush of his conversion.
DYLAN MADE A BARGAIN WITH THE DEVIL
In a rare interview with Ed Bradley, aired on the 60 Minutes program, June 26, 2005, the 63-year-old rock singer said that his early songs were “almost magically written … kind of a penetrating magic.”
He also said that he made a bargain with the devil.
Question: Why do you still do it? Why are you still out here?
Dylan: It goes back to that destiny thing. I made a bargain with it a long time ago, and I’m holding up my end.
Q: What was your bargain?
Dylan: To get where I am now.
Q: Should I ask whom you made the bargain with?
Dylan: With the chief commander.
Q: On this earth?
Dylan: (laughing) On this earth and the world we can’t see.
It could be argued that Dylan was referring to a bargain he made with God, but that makes no sense. As Brian Snider wrote to me on this matter: “Who makes a bargain with God to be a rock star? Everyone knows you make that deal with the devil. Down at the crossroads.” This refers to the old Blues concept of selling one’s soul to the devil. Bluesman Robert Johnson and others have sung about it.
(David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org; for instructions about subscribing and unsubscribing or changing addresses, see the information paragraph at the end of the article)
John Coltrane, "Like Sonny", video podcast
"It was forty years ago today that John Coltrane died, yet his influence remains profound. A new film by Bret Primack, "Like Sonny" -- part six of the ongoing Sonny Rollins Podcast series -- celebrates the life and music of this remarkable creator by detailing the story of Trane's unique friendship with Rollins. The film's title is from a song Coltrane wrote about Rollins, taking the melody from a phrase he heard Sonny play. ..."
Art Pepper picked a peck of pickled peppers; a peck of pickled peppers Art Pepper picked
Art Pepper picked a peck of pickled peppers; a peck of pickled peppers Art Pepper picked. If Art Pepper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Art Pepper picked?
From: straightlife
Art Pepper, one of the world's greatest jazz players, was jailed and re-jailed and re-jailed repeatedly. Here at Terminal Island, he talks about his fate. A clip from a feature work in progress based on the book Straight Life, the Story of Art Pepper. Thanks to Don McGlynn for his footage of Art in performance from his documentary, Art Pepper: Notes from a Jazz Survivor.
"Straight Life, the Story of Art Pepper" was published in November 1979. Since then, people have wanted to make it into a movie. As co-author, as art's wife and then as his widow, I had my own ideas about how he should be portrayed, how his story should be told (with humor and a sense of fantasy and a lot of voice-over; I loved Art's words). And it was important to me that his own musical performances be used. So I wrote a script with Don McGlynn, (who made the documentary, "Art Pepper notes from a jazz survivor"). For more than ten years we shopped the script. Eventually, I even met with the star I wanted, Johnny Depp, who agreed to play Art. But during this long process I learned that none of my original concerns were answered by any of these efforts, and, from would-be producers, I experienced the gamut of movie lies, promises, and betrayals. Disgusted, I decided to give up. Then I decided to do it myself with my own money using my mini dv camera and Macintosh computer.
I realized right away that my lack of experience and resources would doom any attempt to create a slick product. I would make an amateurish movie. I hoped it would be charming. I would make the fascinating and ridiculous process of making the movie a part of the movie -- as a bid for the love and tolerance of the audience.
I found my stars: James Intveld as Art, Tracy Middendorf as Laurie, Lisa Joffrey as Diane. All are working actors. Jimmy is also a musician, singer, and songwriter; Director, Michael Rymer recommended him. Tracy (the ex-girlfriend of my son-in-law's school chum) won Ovation awards for her roles in "Summer and Smoke" and "After the Fall" in Los Angeles. Lisa was one of a small crew I employed to help me care for my mother who lived with me and was suffering from Alzheimers during her last years. Lisa's primarily a comedienne and does standup. Without Lisa's wit and willingness to go anywhere and try anything, Diane would be a big drag.
July 16, 2007
expo cartier présente Rock 'n' Roll 39-59: le scoop!
expo cartier présente Rock'n'Roll 39-59
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"Rock' Roll 39-59", Cartier Foundation, 261, Raspail boulevard, Paris-14E. Tel.: 01-42-18-56-50. Tuesday at Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., night Tuesday up to 10 p.m.. Until October 28.
Catalogue, éd. Xavier Barral, 432 p., 39,50 €.
june 22 at October 28, 2007
Cartier Foundation for l’art presents Rock’n’Roll 39-59, an exposure devoted to the genesis and the beginnings of the rock’n’roll with the United States, of l’explosion of the boogie-woogie from 1939 with the events of the end of the Fifties outstanding the decline of this qu’on can call the first age d’or rock’n’roll. Gathering exceptional posters, rare discs and objects d’époque, but also of the photographs, films, and of course of the music and sound, l’exposition invites the visitor to revive this cultural upheaval, mirror d’une company in full change.
July 15, 2007
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Panther Burns: Forever Lasting: William Eggleston: The Real World
Two girls are driving their 1964 Thunderbolt out of Memphis down Highway 61 where their car breaks down. Looking for help they find an enchanted garage inhabited by Tav Falco and his motorcycle riding comrades.
le label New Rose
In 1979 Falco founded his band the PANTHER BURNS :
From this cacophonous beginning Falco began to emerge as an underground cult artist with the formation of his band 'PANTHER BURNS', named after a legendary plantation in the Mississippi delta. Alex Chilton (guitar) was a founding band member along with Jim Dickinson (guitar), Eric Hill (keyboard), & Ross Johnson (drums). The band has had a number of revolving members that now include Michael Lo (bass), Peter Dark (guitar), & Tall Cash (drums).
He also used to write songs under the name of Eugene Baffle.During his early collaboration with Alex Chilton, Tav Falco obtained an unapproachable cult-like status, a position he since has been able to maintain with a repertoire and music that is a surprising mix of conversion of obscure rigmarole, tangos, sambas, mambos, ballads, and obscure pop standards. The PANTHER BURNS first record came out in 1980 on the band's own label FRENZI in the USA. Since then their records have been released by Rough Trade in London, New Rose in Paris, Marilyn and Munster in Spain, In The Red in Los Angeles, & Au Gogol in Melbourne, Australia.
Even if his own style was different, Tav Falco spent some time in 1980/1981 in New York, part of the No Wave movement, playing and making friends with such bands as DNA, Walter Stedding, James White, united around the concept of musical freedom and experimentation.
Because of its raw, unbridled, lurking sound the band has been called a ‘ballroom gothic junta billy garage band’. Still, Falco has received critical success in publications such as 'New York Times', 'Village Voice', 'Chicago Sun-Times', 'New Orleans Times-Picayune', 'Andy Warhol's Interview', etc. Even though Falco cultivates the image of a suave singer, his new records show his rough style lurking underneath polished productions. Singer and guitarist Tav Falco has always been very interested in making movies (see videos section). He has also appeared as an actor in movie bio of Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire", as a motorcycle gang leader in the road movie, "Highway 61", and as a criminal mastermind in the forthcoming, "Wayne County Rambling".
His last music film/video clip "Love's Last Warning" was made with the American underground film pioneer, Kenneth Anger.His last studio recordings Panther Phobia were realized in the late-2000, some 20 years after his first recordings.2001 saw him played several concerts in Europe and USA, often 2 hours long, unanimously acclaimed to be great & brilliant, enthusiastic & full of energy.2002 saw a wide autumn tour and also a winter tour (Austria, Germany, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France, Italy, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Switzerland)An album has been recorded, to be released soon !!& 2003 begins with some dates in Spain (winter tour).
"Back in the mid-Nineties, when Primal Scream were recording their album Give Out But Don't Give Up in Memphis, they paid a call on Eggleston to ask if they could use Troubled Waters, his strange image of a neon Confederate flag and a palm tree, on the cover. 'I remember he was wearing jodhpurs and leather boots, some kind of military outfit, and walking about with a rifle and a bayonet,' recalls lead singer Bobby Gillespie. 'When he heard we were Scottish, he sat down at the piano and started reciting great chunks of Rabbie Burns. It was surreal.' Gillespie's friend, the filmmaker Douglas Hart, takes up the story. 'William and his wife were knocking back these massive drinks. He asked us to let him hear a song, and then he would decide if we could have the picture. We played him 'Moving On Up', and he fell on his knees and started shouting, 'Bo Diddley! Bo Diddley! Y'all love Bo Diddley!' He rummaged through his records and pulled out 'I'm the Meat Man', by Jerry Lee [Lewis] and played it so loud the speakers blew. Then his wife shouted, 'Y'all want ribs?' She insisted we all go to a local rib joint. It was wild.' Gillespie nods in agreement. 'He let us have the picture though. He was a true gent.'"Poke around and you get these Eggleston anecdotes: the time he pulled a butter knife on a professor at the Harvard faculty club while he was teaching there, the long affair he had in the 70s with Viva from Andy Warhol’s Factory, his cameo in the movie “Great Ball of Fire” as Jerry Lee Lewis’ father, his interest in antigue guns, especially shooting them indoors in the dark, the Gatling gun he has pointed at his front door in his Memphis mansion (which can shoot 1,100 rounds a minute), the time he was stranded in a small town Mississippi motel by an enraged girlfriend with just the clothes on his back and his box of colored pencils.William Eggleston: 5X7
1939 Born July 27, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee.
1957 Acquires his first camera, a Canon rangefinder.
1958 Acquires his first Leica.
1959 Sees Henri Cartier-Bresson's "The Decisive Moment" and Walker Evans' "American Photographs".
1965 Begins to experiment with color transparency film.
1967 Starts to use color negative film. Goes to New York and meets Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus. Presents his work to John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1974 Harry Lunn publishes the first portfolio of dye-transfer photographs, "14 Pictures." Receives a Guggenheim Fellowship. Appointed Lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies at The Carpenter Center, Harvard University. Completes his "Los Alamos" project.
1975 Receives a National Endowment for the Arts Photographer's Fellowship.
1976 The Museum of Modern Art exhibits work in first solo exhibition of color photographs accompanied by a monograph, "William Eggleston's Guide." Commissioned by Rolling Stone to photograph Plains, Georgia before the election of President Jimmy Carter. Project becomes "Election Eve," the first of the artist's books of original photographs published by Caldecot Chubb.
1978 Appointed Researcher in Color Video at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the invitation of Richard Leacock. Photographs the Gulf states on a commission from A.T. & T. Receives another award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Visits Jamaica.
1979 Chubb published three smaller volumes of original photographs, "Morals of Vision," "Wedgwood Blue," and "Flowers."
1980 Travels to Kenya with Caldecot Chubb and creates a body of work known as "The Streets Are Clean on Jupiter." Commissioned to produce the "Louisiana Project" and to photograph throughout the state.
1982 Invited to photograph the set of John Huston's film "Annie".
1983 Begins to photograph in Berlin, Salzburg and Graz and titles the series "Kiss me Kracow". Commissioned to photograph the mansion of Elvis Presley, Graceland.
1986 Invited by director David Byrne to visit and photograph the making of his film "True Stories". Commissioned by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art to photograph in Egypt.
1988 Begins a series of color photographs of England he calls "English Rose".
1989 Photographs in the orange groves of the Transvaal. Accepts one of 54 Master Photographers of 1960-1979 awards from Photographic Society of Japan. Plays the role of musician Jerry Lee Lewis' father in the movie "Great Balls of Fire".
1992 Travels to China, mainly photographing in Beijing.
1993 Commissioned by Delta Pine and Land to photograph Scott, Mississippi.
1996 Commissioned by Coca-Cola to photograph their plants in four cities in the U.S. Invited by producer Caldecot Chubb to visit and photograph the making of the film "Eve's Bayou". Receives the University of Memphis Distinguished Achievement Award.
1999 Invited by director Gus Van Sant to visit and photograph the making of the film "Easter". Invited by the J. Paul Getty Museum to photograph the museum and its grounds. Also photographs religious locations in Orange County, California.
2000 Commissioned by Paramount Pictures to photograph studio lot in Hollywood, California. Commissioned by the Cartier Foundation to photograph the American desert.
2001 Travels to Japan and photographs Kyoto.
2002 Travels extensively and photographs locations including Pasadena, California; the New Jersey Shore; Queens, New York; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Tuscany, Italy.
2003 Travels to and photographs the Niagara Falls area. Travels to Arles, France to attend Rencontres d'Arles and meets Henri Cartier-Bresson. Accepts Gold Medal for Photography from National Arts Club, New York.
2004 Receives the Getty Images Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Center of Photography (ICP) Infinity Awards. Travels to Hawaii and photographs with new panoramic format camera. Travels to Madrid to accept 2004 Photoespana Award. Travels to Clovis, New Mexico and photographs the city and Norman Petty Recording Studios.
2005 William Eggleston In The Real World, a documentary film on Eggleston by Michael Almereyda is completed.
A Single Thread - Theme from Shaft
"My cover version of the Theme from Shaft, the 1971 groundbreaking action movie. It stars my 8 year old German Shepherd "Jasmine". I played the funky rhythm guitar part on a bowed instrument called an "igil" (pronounced eh-GIL). It is a traditional bowed instrument from the country of Tuva, and is traditionally used to accompany Tuvan Throat Singing. I play it a little differently though :)
I tried to stick close to the original song, and I recorded all the backing tracks on keyboards with the help of Jasmine. Once I got this percussive bowing technique down, I was going to record a kind of funky electronic original. Every time I tried to describe the sound I was getting to someone, I'd eventually say: it's kind of like the wacka-wacka guitar sound, like from the song "Shaft". So I thought what the heck, I dig that song, so I decided to do my own cover of it... a tribute to the great Isaac Hayes and a tune that broke a lot of ground, making Isaac Hayes the first African-American composer to win an Academy Award.
A couple years ago I was trying to learn a kind of rhythmic bowing style from a video of Tuvan master igil player and singer Kaigal-ool Khovalyg of the band Huun Huur Tu. Using this igil (made by Aldar Tamdyn of the group Chirgilchin) along with a handmade wooden bow he made, I tried learning Kaigal-ool's bowing style, but being new to it, the bow bounced around a lot all over the place, which is not what it supposed to do.
I kind of liked the percussive nature this produced, but it wasn't very rhythmic and hard to control, so I set out on trying to get a handle on it and see if I could control it and use it for something down the road. After some months of messing around with it, I got so I could keep a pretty good syncopated beat, though it works best using the crude handmade bow, because it is much heavier than the Erhu bows that most igils are played with, and it also has some flex to it. The bowhair on this bow is made of fine nylon strands (as are the strings on the igil) so they flex more than horsehair which my other bows are made of. Plus I'm bouncing more towards the middle of the neck, so I get more bounce than closer to the bridge, where you'd usually bow.
So basically what's happening is that every time I make a full downstroke and upstroke, the bow is flexing bouncing off the strings 4 times. So in this song it's bouncing and scratching on the strings 480 times per minute, or 4 times per beat, or every time you hear the cymbal hi-hat."
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Robert Pete Williams - Scrap Iron Blues
"Robert Pete Williams, bluesman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, captured here in the process of improvising a new composition, Scrap Iron Blues, in 1971. Not only does he describe his current job, but he also explains the circumstances that led to his arrest for murder and incarceration in the notorious Angola Penitentiary."
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July 14, 2007
David Hasselhoff - Pingu Dance Rap
"In 1989, David Hasselhoff released (in Switzerland only) the single "Pingu Dance", a rap song based on the Pingu shorts and featuring a number of samples of Pinguish. ..."
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(Via Finding the Filth)
QUACKed ACTORs
"I was country music's national drunk and drug addict."
george jones
George Jones
1979
Exit/In
NASHVEGAS
QUACK ADDICT"In 1979, ravaged by cocaine and alcohol, George Jones experienced some difficulty onstage at a Nashville club. The wobbly country star could open his mouth, but he was unable to sing. 'My friend Deedoodle [a duck] is going to take over this show, because Deedoodle can do what George Jones can't,' the singer improvised. Jones sang the entire set in a Donald Duck-inspired quack."
[Deedoodle was later joined in Jones's troubled head by another 'character': a drawling old-timer.]the duck destROYs IT ridiculous and sings soFor much of 1979, Jones wallowed in severe whiskey and cocaine addiction. Eventually, his whole personality crackedAFTERQUACK
(perhaps "quacked" is a better word)
into two distinct beings: One was George Jones, washed-up country singer, while the other was Donald, or sometimes Deedoodle Duck, who spoke in quack-talk. Jonesduck voice. The duck's debut came at Nashville showcase venue the Exit-In before an audience of industry insiders, at what was supposed to have been a comeback show.
George 'Ragged But Right' Jones' came onstage and announced that George Jones was washed up, a has-been, but that on that night a new star was born who was going all the way to the top. As George stood onstage, face drawn, with his pants falling down-- the duck destROYs IT ridiculous and sings so like a, you could see tears in most of the audience's eyes.
Donald continued the quacky-tonkin'
until he was carted offstage in a straitjacket.
George Jones
Deedoodle
Deedoodle
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