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I Me Mine
- B. E.
- Buffalo, New York, United States
- I'm a writer, consultant, and jazz concert producer (most recently, for the Art of Jazz Series at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) living outside Buffalo, New York. I started out in college in the early 1970s producing concerts while attending Hobart College in Geneva, NY. Those were the days when you could book Springsteen for a couple of thousand dollars. After college I reconnected with a high school friend, the wildly talented Pete LaBonne (more on him in future blogposts) and we formed the Blue Reimondos, the first new wave / punk / alternative / call it whatever band in the Buffalo area. We weren't together that long but we spent a lot of time listening to Big Star. One fateful night in Austin TX in 1979 Peter crossed paths with Alex Chilton and thus the seeds for the book were sown. Using my concert producing experience and Peter's brief contact, we called up Alex in Memphis and offered him $300 and the proverbial ticket for an aeroplane to fly up from Memphis and play a gig with us (the picture above is from that show - I'm on the right) to play a gig with us backing him up at the legendary McVan's Rock Castle in Buffalo. That was just the beginning...
5 comments:
i don't see this on amazon. link?
link is to the right just above the black and white photo...thanks for checking in
hey, thanks for the response! But I actually meant for the new Rock City album. Already got the book and it's really awesome!
oops. sorry for the misinterpretation...the Rock City disc is available through CD Baby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rockcitymusic
or as in mp3 at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Can-Find-the-Dreamer/dp/B0029S0Q64/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249485302&sr=301-1
I'd check out the first track Seems So Long to get a flavor of the music. Really should be heard in a Camaro on an 8-track.
Sorry, but that second Rock City album is terrible. It was also recorded 5 years after Chris Bell's death.
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