https://pleasekillme.com/chris-bell/
As promised, here's a link to my interview with Rich Tupica, author of the outstanding Chris Bell bio, There Was A Light, for the Please Kill Me blog. As I noted earlier, this is really a must-have book if you're a Big Star fan. Check out the interview and then order the book from the publisher (HoZac) or Amazon.
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...
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My Big Star mania began in 1992 when the Rykodisc reissues came out; currently, I'm deep in the midst of another Big Star/Chris Bell kick after some years away. In the past two months I've read the Jovanovic book, Holly George-Warren's book on Chilton, and today I finished the Tupica book on Bell. As I finished up that one I learned about your 33 1/3 entry and I started it tonight. Looking forward to getting deeper into it.
Hey Bruce...Sam here. Sorry to hear about your health issues. Hope things are looking up for you. Loved the interview and it has inspired me to buy Rich's book.
I recently discovered a tape of a little jam session that you played and sang on when you visited Boston sometime in 1981/82. Also on this is our dear mutual friend Bill Poczik, Dan Ireton AKA Dredd Foole(who has released several records) and my old friend and music conspirator Rich Mirsky, who is still active in the Boston music scene. It's appropriately shambolic but it brought a smile to my face so thought you might have a little interest.
Glad to have found your blog and will be following it.
All the best,
Sam
https://soundcloud.com/wyosttttt/noise
Hi there - left a big comment on the Big Star comment page.
I too saw Bruce in 1974 - in Burlington Vermont - with the whole band. Violin player too!
Charlie Messing
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