I don't know if Bobb Bruno realizes it, but he's the Bizarro-World Kim Fowley—an unwitting svengali who's produced girl bands and wrote or played songs on countless other bands' albums, but whose utter lack of self-promotion almost hints that he secretly is horrified of his own project Making It Big.
An adult's look at the teenage diaries of the Runaways The Runaways were both an actual all-girl rock 'n' roll band and a realization of their impresario's promotional imagination. Their run of four studio albums in the 1970s ( The Runaways , Queens of Noise , Waitin' for the Night , And Now… The Runaways ), a live LP ( Live in Japan ), and a few odds 'n' sods collection [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Kristen Stewart (Twilight) has been signed to portray Joan Jett in "The Runaways," the rock n roll biopic of the influenetial '70s all-girl rock band. The Runaways were the first commercially successful all-girl hard rock band; their members were; guitarists Jett and Lita Ford, drummer Sandy West, bassist Jackie Fox and singer/keyboardist Cherie Currie. The band was formed in 1975 by music impresario Kim Fowley, who thought a novelty act of teenage girls performing in leather & lace would be an easy sell. But the members were serious about their craft and performed their own music so found a rock audience with songs like "Cherry [...]
YOUNGER POINT OF VIEW The Dogs 1976 Available on : We're Desperate: The L.A. Scene (1976-1979) Rhino : 1993 [Buy It] TEENAGE PRESIDENT TALKING BLUES Kim Fowley Hotel Insomnia Marilyn: 1994 [Buy It] This story starts with two beautiful women. I knew neither of them. I know neither of them. It was on the subway. One was black, tall, and to my left. One was short, white, and to my right. Both were around twenty. [...]
Photo: Neil Krug . Domenic Priore: We were trying to figure out what separates the British Invasion groups from the '60s Garage Punk bands in America that followed, and when you said "they warped it with Chili Dogs" that pretty much says it all. Shelly Kidd: Well, because that was part of the pop food of the time. See, you could make a complete study of the era by tying in so many different factors: food, fashion, style and music. It's all inter-related. And that's why even though the British may have been "better" [...]
J'aime bien Kim Fowley. En plus d'être talentueux, il est drôle. Je viens juste de récupérer son album de 1999 sorti sur le label Koch. Pour une somme modique. Et heureusement. Déjà, qu'est ce que c'est que cette pochette dégueulasse ? Les couleurs, le lettrage, la photo, la mise en page…Ca donne pas envie de l'acheter. Mais puisque c'est écrit Kim Fowley, on passe. Erreur de vieillesse. Ensuite, on place le disque dans le lecteur. Et là qu'est ce que…mais…c'est quoi ce…non…. C'est ce [...]
This was waxed around the time he produced legendary recordings by the Modern Lovers so it's no surprise that this is one of the best albums from the ubiquitous Kim Fowley. Son of actor Douglas Fowley, he produced the novelty hit Alley Oop in 1960, then went on to release some commercially unsuccessful solo albums, produced and wrote more oddities for other artists (including Kiss) and eventually unleashed Runaways on the world. And that's just to name a few. He even found time to write songs with Skip Battin, which were recorded by the Byrds (Untitled LP) and Gene Parsons. [...]
Friday, I meant to get a happy birthday post up to honor the life of the late great Clarence Gatemouth Brown. I was a bit distracted by the usual whatnot, so I hope to combine this announcement... Since this weekend is also the anniversary of Earth... visit for more mp3's & random revelations
Friday, I meant to get a happy birthday post up to honor the life of the late great Clarence Gatemouth Brown. I was a bit distracted by the usual whatnot, so I hope to combine this announcement... Since this weekend is also the anniversary of Earth... visit for more mp3's & random revelations
Just two more days left in WFMU's 50th Anniversary fundraising Marathon ! Tune in through Sunday to hear all your favorite DJs doing their thing to the utmost with special co-hosts and prizes galore. They've also put together a fine batch of DJ Premiums . Any of these handcrafted CDs are available for a pledge of $75 or more. Check the blog daily to sample what's available from today's DJs and don't forget to support WFMU ! [...]
Hey Chloe Sevigny! Nice top! We were wondering how to get our hands on one of Luella's ditzy floral Peter Pan collar blouses, when we stumbled across this little gem from Kim Fowley on said designer's website. Brilliant, just brilliant. Now we want the blouse and we want to change our name to Bubblegum. Fashion can be so demanding.
More great debris from times lost to the psychedelic ether. A heavy dose of pop-psych up on the jukebox today, showing that everybody was dipping their toes into the hazy waters at some time or another. [MP3] H.P. Lovecraft - Mobius Trip A languid folk-prog styled psych romp from the band's second album. Keys bubble and rock underneath the dual harmony vocals and strident folk strum that was one of the band's touchstones. A nice use of vocal effects that don't cross over into the cheesy psych territory. [...]
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Kim Fowley ist einer der Schattenmänner der Popgeschichte. Als Solokünstler kam der Amerikaner nie zu Ruhm, als Produzent, Songwriter, Manager und Musiker arbeitete er jedoch immer wieder mit namhaften Grössen zusammen: Fowley war auf Zappa's "Freak Out" dabei, jamte mit Cat Stevens und Soft Machine in London, prodzierte Gene Vincent, managte The Runaways und schrieb Songs für Alice Cooper und Kiss. Mit "The Trip" hat Fowley 1965 den wohl ersten expliziten Song über LSD aufgenommen. Kim Fowley - "The Trip"
"And if it means I get beat by the second bass player from The Raspberries, then so be it." -- Tom on getting humbled by Scott McCarl "You know what, Greg Proops might not even be the funniest guy in L.A. named 'Greg Proops'." -- Tom, disputing Esquire 's pick for L.A.'s top funnyman "That guy's not runnin' anywhere. America limps on Dunkin'. America waddles on Dunkin'." -- Tom, suggesting catchphrases more befitting a man of John Goodman's size "Keep that porno medicine off my TV. [...]
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