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If you haven't read the Chris Frantz' new book, don't bother.
If you haven't read the Chris Frantz' new book, don't bother.
So much pent up anger and self-aggrandizement.
Sums it up pretty good. He and Tina basically came up with all ideas and DB was just an autistic goon who made spin paintings and had no taste in anything and pretended to read books about cybernetics that he didn't understand.well mannered bland drummers writing books? i know they don’t like d.b. - probably with good reason, but still.... does he think anybody thought he was what was interesting about t.h? tom-tom club sucked.
Sums it up pretty good. He and Tina basically came up with all ideas and DB was just an autistic goon who made spin paintings and had no taste in anything and pretended to read books about cybernetics that he didn't understand.
Oh and also, Chris gave DB his Lacoste polos that he got for Christmas from mommy and made DB a fashion icon.
The book really ruined TH for me, just knowing that CF was a spoiled brat whose daddy was an admiral and who thought he knew everything about art and music.
There were literally 100 name drops on every page, including drug use, so Shaun Ryder could have been in there.
Some interesting stories from their early days of opening for the Ramones tho.
ROFLimpulse purchase! - $15 on amazon!
i saw the heads 3 or 4 times at C.B.s, back around ‘75, always with the ramones top-billed. they were just a 3 piece then, and were kind of ricketty, but o.k. weird... the first two times i saw the ramones was the best thing i ever saw, EVER! that was def ‘75... “WTF?!?!”
I figured that much from the book, though CF painted a very rosy picture of their time there.risd kids are almost always prats - i think it’s part of the core curriculum up there...
CF name dropped literally everybody who was anybody in NYC in the mid-seventies. From AW parties to Lou Reed trying to sign them to his label and doing drugs in the bathroon with a bunch of other names you'll probably recognize.depends who cf name dropped. the amazing thing about nyc then was just how many (in)famous creeps you would run into in bars, restaurants, galleries, and out on the street if you hung around downtown. (and/or knew a lot of photographers...)
from the photo-rig/fujifilm pnt&sht thread,
are you familiar with mark cohen?