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[ghostcultmagazine]

BOOK REVIEW: Michael Alago and Laura Davis-Chanin – "I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica. Beating Death."

BOOK REVIEW: Michael Alago and Laura Davis-Chanin – “I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica. Beating Death.”

Everybody has a story.

There are many words of wisdom born from the soul of Michael Alago that he has shared in his memoir. Most know him as the music industry legend that signed Metallica to Electra Records and helped guide them on the path to being the biggest band of all time. The Drew Stone documentary Who The F*ck Is That Guy: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago (now on Netflix and Amazon

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[treedahlia]

キャプテン・ビーフハート（Captain Beefheart, 本名ドン・ヴァン・ヴリートDon Van Vliet）と彼が率いるマジック・バンドは、1967年にファースト作の『セイフ・アズ・ミルク』を発表した。アルバムは売れたわけではなかったが、引き続き2作目の録音を始める。ところが、バンドがヨーロッパをツアー中にプロデューサーのボブ・クラスノウは、ミックスやエフェクト処理を施して、アルバムとして発表してしまう。そうして出来上がってしまったのが、本盤『ストリクトリー・パーソナル（Strictly Personal）』であった。 （中略） 　ちなみに、ビーフハートとそのバンドはこの一件により、レーベルを移り、翌年に名作として知られる『トラウト・マスク・レプリカ』を発表することになる。余談ながら、上記の経緯からジャケットの仕様などに本人たちは関わっていないのだろうと想像するが、“写真在中、折り曲げ厳禁”と書かれ、切手部分にはメンバーの顔という封筒を模したジャケット・イメージは個人的にはなかなかセンスがいいと感じている。

「キャプテン・ビーフハート＆ヒズ・マジック・バンド　『ストリクトリー・パーソナル（Strictly Personal）』」（『音楽日記　～ロックやジャズの名盤・名曲の紹介とその他の独り言～』2018年04月16日）

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Yello80s salutes the treasures lost in 2016

Yello80s salutes the treasures lost in 2016

2016. What a freaking year for political mayhem, world mayhem, violence and mayhem of all new proportions. And then there was the seemingly mass passing of many cultural treasures- musicians, actors and writers. While I’m looking forward to 2017 and a whole new year to blast from the past, I felt we needed to salute those not coming into the new year. In 2016 the world said goodbye to, among many…

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[rockhalllibrary]

Bob Krasnow, Label Exec and Rock Hall of Fame Co-Founder, Dead at 82

Bob Krasnow, a longtime record label executive and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died Sunday.

To find out more about Bob Krasnow, make an appointment to come see our holdings.

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Michael Nesmith  15th December 2016

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From time to time I have to take a stern rebuke from my friends. It’s more difficult as I get older -- but I must say it seems to do me more good -- and I don’t think that has too much to do with how painful the rebuke can be.

The hardest part is to feel like a fool, or an idiot, or a moron, or just wrong -- loud and wrong is the worst. Usually loud means that I have concocted a certainty that allows me to move-like-jagger -- but I somehow know I don’t really look all that good doing it. Many times, thankfully, there is a friend around who yells “Just stop that!”

Bob Krasnow just died -- I am sure most of you never heard of him -- he was my first manager back in the 60’s in LA.

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He had a great musical ear -- and very little time for my foolishness. I’m not self-deprecating when I say he only called me out rightly -- and the thing he usually called me out on was low-brow music -- music that didn’t measure up to his standards.

Bob had a way of moving the reference point to a place where it sounded like his opinion -- and I always balked at that because it seemed shallow, merely his opinion, and many times it was.

But most of the times it wasn’t.

Once he said to me, loud, out on Sunset boulevard outside the House of Pancakes, as we were getting into a car, “Just be a man! Take the hit, be responsible!”

It made me furious. I felt steam coming out of my ears. By the time I got from, the sidewalk into the car, it dawned on me that he was right. I had wandered into cowardice, and worse, was excusing it.

It was one of the most important musical lessons I ever learned, and I often think that had it not been for Bob, I might never have learned it at all -- gender politics aside. A few months later Bob sold his management contract with me to Screen Gems for the new series they were starting. He made a lot of money on that sale.

Bob and I stayed close friends for a few years, then distant friends, then we lost touch. But over time I have come to recognize this same friend in the eyes of many of my closest and most trusted allies, especially when they scream at me for doing something stupid.

[jr-986]

Bob Krasnow R.I.P.

[magicmenageriestuff]

My Pop Life #160 : River Deep, Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner

My Pop Life #160 : River Deep, Mountain High – Ike & Tina Turner

River Deep, Mountain High   –   Ike & Tina Turner Well I’m gonna be as faithful as that puppy, no I’ll never let you down June 18th 1966 I was 9 years old.  Mum had walked out of Hellingly Hospital but on the advice of Dr Maggs had volunteered to go back for a short while.  When she finally returned home, she’d been away for nine months.  I was happy when she came home.  Her mum, my nan, had been…

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