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...often have guest artists join you in the studio. Who was the most memorable? -Melissa Madsen, Munster, Ind.Hoyt Axton was one of them on the Ringo album. We were doing the No No Song with the biggest spliff and a large bottle of Jack Daniel's. On the last albums, I've brought in Robert Randolph-how great is that?-Willie Nelson, the other end of that scale, and Tom Petty. I could go on. I don't ask them to be on because of their name. I ask them because I love them as musicians and because they...
...DIED. ESTELLE AXTON, 85, bank teller who mortgaged her home to fund, with her brother, the 1961 creation of the classic soul label Stax Records; in Memphis. Stax, which took its name from the first letters of Axton's and her brother Jim Stewart's last names, had hits with songs like Booker T. and the MGs' Green Onions, Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay, and Sam and Dave's Soul...
DIED. HOYT AXTON, 61, folksy singer-songwriter best known for the 1970s Three Dog Night hit Joy to the World; of complications from a stroke; in Victor, Mont. The sometime actor's offbeat tunes--with titles like Boney Fingers and The No No Song--were recorded by Ringo Starr, Linda Ronstadt and John Denver...
...Zach Galligan), the all-American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic violence...
...inevitable Indiana Jones. This is what superior popular moviemaking is all about: using high technology and a cheerfully bonkers creativity to reach, and elevate, the lowest common denominator. A one-film movie festival that is blessedly its own unique self, Gremlins is perhaps best characterized by Co-Star Hoyt Axton's suggestive phrase: "E. T. with teeth...