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...disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer and a musician,' he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in 'The Encyclopedia of Record Producers' (Billboard Books, 1999), 'that's very complementary...
...Southern's serious thoughts on literature, cinema, and drugs bracketing his work as a short-story craftsman, a critic, a New Journalist, and a writer of blissfully puerile "letters." The pieces were selected and edited by Nile Southern, writer and son of the Grand Guy, and Josh Alan Friedman, musician, author of the terrific "Tales of Times Square" and a series of venomously funny cartoons, and the son of brilliant novelist Bruce Jay Friedman...
...shame you failed to mention even one classical musician. As we sink deeper into the morass of mediocrity, classical music is one of the few things of quality and beauty that remain. Rock, pop, hip-hop and rap have done little if anything for the history of music, and most of what is out today will probably be forgotten in a few years. ANNE BERNIE CALUWAERT High Springs...
Farina had serious literary talent--he published poetry in the Atlantic, and his novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is still in print--but he willed himself to be a musician, eventually recording with his second wife Mimi Baez Farina (Joan's younger sister), until his slender musical talent was taken for something real. Most of all, though, he wanted to be famous, to occupy a central place in the youth culture he could see taking shape around...
Lewis plans to continue guiding Lost Highway down back roads. In September, his label will release Private Radio, a CD from actor-director Billy Bob Thornton ("I was a musician before I got into movies," he says). His CD features "dark story-songs," Thornton says, and two numbers are dedicated to his wife, Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie. "They are songs that anyone can relate to," he says, "but there are a couple of lines that only she and I will get." He says a few tracks are "too country for country radio." Sounds as if he'll be right...