
Click here to read the
RARWRITER.com interview with Paul Muldoon.
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"Valhalla
of Decadence"
L.A. Rocker Tony Gamble
(left) has been through quite a lot over the past six years,
including album releases, rock tours, and shows at the annual
NAMM conference, where he represents ESP Guitars.
And...oh yeah, there was
that murder, that body found in a trash bag in a dumpster
wearing Tony's watch...
Oh-oh...
Tony Gamble is a RARWRITER
Featured Artist in this edition, where he discusses the book he
is writing on his experiences surrounding a highly publicized
murder case in L.A., his childhood in Malibu, growing up with
the Z-Boys of Dogtown and the children of famous rockers, and
his plans for the future.
Click here to read the Tony
Gamble exclusive.
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Artist
Management Series
Could DIY Mean the End of the
Paternalism that Killed Michael Jackson?
Chris
Daniels (pictured left) has been a frontline performer from
Colorado for three decades and counting. With his band Chris
Daniels & The Kings he has recorded a dozen albums, played
with B.B. King, Uncle Cracker, Blues Traveler, The Neville
Brothers, Delbert McClinton, Sister Hazel, Sheryl Crow, Robert
Cray, Taj Mahal, Al Kooper, Bonnie Raitt, Ziggy Marley, The Fixx,
and many others. His previous bands Magic Music and
Spoons were also important in Colorado music history.
All of those years of performing and
managing his own career have taught Chris a great deal about the
music business, which he has parlayed into an assistant
professorship at the University of Colorado, where he teaches
Music Business classes. Among his acolytes in the classroom have
been Colorado band The Fray.
In this edition, Chris Daniels adds
important insights to RARWRITER.com's
Artist Management Series.
Click here to read his article
on the new "Do It Yourself" ethos that exists among young music
makers. Will their Internet savvy and hands-on approach to
career planning change the way musicians do business? And what
will it mean to the traditional artist management industry?
"Who
Proofreads this Stuff!?!"
Colorado buddy Steve Ignelzi
writes to ask - "Colorado legend 'Christ'
Daniels? Who proof reads this stuff?"
The sharp-eyed bassist of Boulder's
Girls On Top party band, along with other jazz ensembles,
refers to an error in the most recent email blast for
RARWRITER.com that carried this bit of editorial carnage -
"Colorado music legend Christ Daniels,
who also happens to be an assistant professor at the University
of Colorado..."
"Chris was not that
popular..." writes Ignelzi of the errant elevation of Chris to
Christ status. "Maybe, John Lennon and Beatles were..."
Steve's point is well made. Not that
it will likely make any difference, but I promise to do better
or find a proofreader. - RAR

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Trower Drummer
Bill Lordan's Rock Life

Bill Lordan, pictured left,
has been in the high ether of the rock, funk and soul universe
for 40 years. Coming from humble beginnings in Minnesota, Lordan
caught on with soul groups The Amazers and The Esquires,
perfecting his chops at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, the only white
guy in otherwise Black ensembles. Success in that company led to
the big time with Gypsy, The Mystics, Sly and the Family Stone
and the Robin Trower Band.
Bill Lordan, working with
RARWRITER.com contributor Diana Olson, has written his
autobiography, From the Basement to the Coliseum,
charting his long and successful career. They are currently in
negotiations with publishers. Lordan remains an active player,
winning an L.A. Music Award as recently as 2004 for his
compilation album "The Best of BLX" (i.e., the Bill Lordan
Experience).
Click
here to read a brief excerpt from the book and listen to MP3
from his "Best of..." LP.
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Robert
Johnson and the Mariachi
RARWRITER.com's
residient musicologist Douglas Strobel has always had an
inordinate fascination with the stories behind every minute
aspect of our cultural history, particularly as it relates to
his favorite music subject, the Country Blues.
The snippet (left) of the famous
R. Crumb cover for the "King of the Delta Blues Singers" LP
that, quite after the fact, introduced iconic bluesman Robert
Johnson to most of the world, is the type of thing that would
capture Doug's attention. He would head off to the library to do
a little research the old fashioned pre-computer era way,
reading books on arcane topics, which would tell him about guys
like those depicted in the brilliance of the R.Crumb drawing.
This edition, Douglas Strobel
contributes "Robert
Johnson and the Mariachi" (click here to read).
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