Dear Tim My own next project is going to be a biography of Professor Longhair. Having spent fifteen years writing about four of the most famous people on earth, I long for a subject about which virtually every prospective reader doesn't already have a set of preconceptions and opinions. Here again … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2007
Ripped Apart by Fate: Eddie Izzard, Marin Alsop
Bonus round: This juxtaposition is more insulting to a) classical audience b) comedy audience c) plumber's conventioneers … [Read more...]
Astrid Kirchherr Photos
This book finally compiles many of the images put out by Genesis in the 1990s, with candids from Harrison and Starr's apartment during the shooting of Hard Day's Night, the HDN set with Richard Lester and Pattie Boyd, and a fascinating trip to Liverpool where the Cavern is overrun by beat-bands such … [Read more...]
E Streeters continuing saga
Dear Tim, I too have blown hot and cold with Max Weinberg - though mostly cold I'd have to say. And I would say the same about Springsteen himself. Come to think of it, this has been an ongoing thirty-year issue for me. When Springsteen first arrived on the scene in the 1970s as John Hammond's … [Read more...]
The E Street Trio
Dear Jonathan Gould, Yeah I was wondering if that was it: being a drummer you didn't want to come on TOO strong with Ringo... that's okay, it's subtextual, and I gushed a lot in my book. Every drummer I've ever talked to gushes about RIngo, at least the good ones do. I think he's a better drummer … [Read more...]
VERBAL TICS EAT LIVING FLESH
EDITORIAL TICS Why do we have editors? To save us all from those annoying TICS that infect language like ants on birthday cake. Couple years back there was an INFLUENZA of sentences that tried to sound, well, hip, by injecting "well"s into the most obvious places to INFORMALIZE the, well, "tone" of … [Read more...]
Ringo as rock’s Sonny Greer [Gould part 2]
Dear Tim, ...Somewhat incredibly, I haven't read Magic Circles; it must have come out right around the time I finally stopped reading and researching and staying current on all things Beatle in order to focus all of my addled attention on finally finishing my book. But now, of course, I'm curious, … [Read more...]
Jonathan Gould: A Fan’s Notes
Dear Jonathan Gould, Whew you got a great agent, serialized in USA TODAY, man that's EXPOSURE. Congratulations on all this, very handsomely produced and marketed product. But most of all pat yourself on the back... there is so much hard work reflected in these pages, so many long library hours … [Read more...]