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hindsight is anything: expect the unexpected
There are some movements that are strange, unpredictable, and even when they surge into social dominance, not easy to explain; events outside the conventional thinking that hunts causes, reduces chance to a minimum, and loves plotting the tides that sweep … Continue reading
nostalgic about the fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Color the decade green, the color of chlorophyll; sprinkle with freckles, like Howdy Doody; add a smear of red lipstick, and put it in a sack. What do you get? An Edsel. Thinking … Continue reading
sales ID trick: totally made man
by Art Chantry: this is another one of those record covers that i consider absolutely perfect, even exquisite. granted, it’s not a recent cover or even a very famous cover. but, it’s absolutely impeccable in concept, execution and intent. i … Continue reading
beatin the skins
Great marketing by Zildjian, a true reflection of the “community of users” ideal. Use of social media whereby Facebook has become their principal portal and given exposure to artists past and present. … …Happy 100th Birthday to Zildjian Artist, Viola … Continue reading
frank
by Art Chantry: cool? or just another drunk? “hope i die before i get old…” i’ve never read about a single nice thing he ever did or said to anybody. even his compliments were insults. he made deano look like … Continue reading
they’re crazy: collector stories
by Art Chantry: i refuse to be a collector. even though i’m surrounded by clutter and crap, i much prefer to call myself a “gatherer” or even a “hoarder” rather than a “collector.” collectors are nuts. i recently found a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged art chantry, Beggin You The Royal Chessmen, Eddie Fisher, Eddie Fisher 45 RPM's, eddie fisher coke time, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, hispanic vocal group The Royal Chessmen, Jim dawson & steve proper, Jim Dawson author, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manson Family, poppy z. brite, Roman Polanski estate, Steve Parent, Steve Proper author, William Garretson
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expression of the soul
… Rock and roll “is the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Rock n’ roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous … Continue reading
the bark and the sound bite: back to marciano
by Paul Hamilton ( see full links at bottom): SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged 10cc, ash soan, Bucks New University Students Union, Frank Sinatra, GG/06, Godley & Creme, grace jones, graham gouldman, kevin godley, lol creme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul hamilton, paul hamilton bisonics, steve lipson, The Producers, trevor horn
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collector geeks: crying over the whole shebang
Obsessive completist collector geeks…. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): While collecting records over the years,I began to become fascinated by a certain weird ‘category’ of record collecting. There are so many odd little nooks and crannies of record collecting that you never … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art chantry, bettie page, big black, Bryan Ferry, butthole surfers, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, Frank Sinatra, fred sanford, Gibby Hayes, Ivy Rorschach, Joni Mitchell, Lux Interior, mary tyler moore, redd foxx, ron wood, sanford and son, Steve Albini, The Cramps, xavier cugat
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OH DEMON ALCOHOL: STRAIGHT UP
Here’s a story about a sinner, He used to be a winner who enjoyed a life of prominence and position, But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements, And his selfish wife’s fanatical ambition, It turned him to … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Wilder, Bing Crosby, Blake Edwards, Dudley Moore, Edward Copeland, Edwin S. Porter, Frank Sinatra, Fred Topel, Grace Kelly, Hays Commission, Jack Lemmon, Jack London, Jackie Gleason, James Cagney, Lee Remick, Nicholas Cage, Norman K. Denzin, Peter Mullan, Ray Davies, Ray Milland, Robert Hays, Steven Porter, Susan Hayward, W.C. Fields, Walter Matthau, William J. Felchner
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