#steve katz

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Nico by Steve Katz

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Blood Sweat and Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy

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Wie ! viel Vente

Diese Star- bucks-Terrasse schmiegt sich an die Klippen, so dass man die Gefahr spürt, die diese Kletterer bei den verschiedenen Schwierigkeitsgraden ertragen müssen Ich nehme den letzten Tisch und nippe an meinem Macchiato aus einer weißen Keramiktasse Eine Rotte von Radfahrern in Lycra-Uniform bremst plötzlich, stellt die Räder in den Ständer und stellt sich hinter ihm am Tresen für einen Latte an Ist das Cochise, der…

Fotografie: Portrait von Steve Katz (amerikanischer Schriftsteller, 1935-2019)

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“What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?” Releases March 24

- “I believe the music we made then holds up today,” Bobby Colomby says

A Woodstock-veteran band plays gigs behind the Iron Curtain in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.

What could possibly go wrong?

For Blood, Sweat & Tears, everything.

“It just made them look uncool,” music journalist David Wild says in the trailer for “What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?,” which premieres March 24 in New York and Los Angeles prior to wider release.

“Going to Eastern Europe was not going to be forgiven by the counterculture.”

Directed by John Scheinfeld, the film tells the story of the unlikely, State Department-sponsored tour, the countries’ violent reactions to American music and its impact on BS&T.

It was apparently a career-killer for the band, which still performs with only drummer Bobby Colomby remaining from the original lineup.

“I think we were naive,” David Clayton-Thomas says of the trek. “I don’t think we realized how it would bounce up and bite us.”

“There was an underlying reason why we did this tour,” guitarist Steve Katz says. “We were blackmailed.”

Plot twist.

Bad juju aside, the movie also brings up some good memories for Colomby, who called the audio - the soundtrack is due April 21 - and video footage “fascinating.”

“I believe the music we made then holds up today,” the drummer said in a statement.

3/2/23

[everythingloureed]

For a pretty penny, this can be yours!  PURCHASE HERE

A twice-signed Lou Reed management contract, entered into just before Reed entered the studio to record his breakthrough solo album Transformer.  This onerous agreement assigned a percentage of Reed’s publishing catalog, including virtually every important Velvet Underground song, to new manager Fred Heller.

Dated July 1, 1972, this five-page agreement between Reed and manager Fred Heller veers from the standard management terms in granting Heller not just 20% of Reed’s “gross earnings from all sources,” but also stipulating that Reed transfer to his new manager “a twenty percent (20%) interest in any and all publishing companies which you…own or control.”

This means Reed, in addition to paying Heller 20% of his future recording, touring and publishing income, gives him a 20% ownership stake in his existing and future publishing companies.  As a result, Heller would own 20% of every song Reed had written or co-written on The Velvet Underground and Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground (their third album), Loaded and his first solo album, Lou Reed.

This grant of ownership of existing songs is highly unusual for a management contract, and it’s remarkable that Reed agreed to it.  Adding insult to injury is the timing; the agreement was signed just before Reed entered the studio to record the biggest album of his career, the David Bowie-Mick Ronson produced Transformer, which included “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Vicious,” “Perfect Day,” and “Satellite of Love.”

We acquired this contract from Reed’s former producer (and Blues Project/Blood, Sweat and Tears guitarist) Steve Katz. Katz notes in his accompanying letter of authenticity that “This agreement was eventually litigated through arbitration where I acted as one of the witnesses.  The terms of the agreement were obviously unfair in that Fred Heller would take 20% of Lou Reed’s publishing, including the publishing of Lou’s classic Velvet Underground material.  Lou eventually won the suit.”

Lou Reed has signed the agreement twice on the forth page, for himself and for his publishing company, Oakfield Avenue Music.  Fred Heller signs for Heller Management Company.

In overall excellent condition, with two horizontal mailing folds, file holes to the top of each page, and a few sets of staple holes to the top left corners.

Included is an original 12 ½” square mounted photograph of Lou Reed, circa 1971.

With Steve Katz’s letter of authenticity, and Recordmecca’s written lifetime guarantee of authenticity.

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Rest in Peace, Steve Katz, assistant engineer on Joni’s albums, Hejira through Mingus.

☞ The link includes an interview with Steve Katz on what it was like to work on those albums with Joni Mitchell in the late seventies.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Go Down Gamblin'

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Joni Mitchell in the studio with Henry Lewy & Steve Katz, ca. 1978.