Jeff Price is the Founder and CEO of TuneCore
I discovered David Bowie
in 10th grade when Karen, a senior in my high school that I had a huge
crush on, drove me to the Friendship Mall in Washington, D.C.. Pouring
out of her cranked up stereo was a song set to an emotional “wall of
sound”, imbued with rock and an incredibly emotional singer wailing
about Major Tom, a man that died floating in his tin can circling the
earth.
eerily suggestive of the forthcoming sound of the Sex Pistols) ended up
on just about every mix tape I had. My daily music fix became a glam
mixture of Slade (now a TuneCore Arist – whoo hoo!!), Gary Glitter (before he was arrested for ummm, unmentionables), ELO, T Rex, and the New York Dolls.
In particular, it was the New York Dolls
that I became most fascinated with. Loud, angry, flamboyant and, in
the words of Monty Python, dressed in woman’s clothing, the New York
Dolls unabashedly portrayed to me what I thought Glam should be. Their
song Personality Crisis
became THE song I wish I had written and got to play on stage (but as
fate would have it, I am not able to actually play any instrument very
well. Those who can’t play, start record labels!)
kicked ass. Stylized, raw, punk, rock, angry and glam! They went on
to influence a legion of bands (and David Johansen even ended up
getting some choice parts in movies – i.e. the taxi driver in Bill
Murray’s Scrooged)
meteoric rise to their drug-and-alcohol-riddled demise. But the film’s
main focus is a current portrait of bassist and leader Arthur “Killer”
Kane, a recovering alcoholic who now lives a quiet life as a Mormon.
When rocker Morrissey (yes, that Morrissey) plans a reunion of the
band, director Greg Whiteley captures Kane and the rest of the group as
the attempt a surprising comeback.”
Nutshell, seriously, you have to see this movie. It’s a great story
that happens to be about a band that got to influence the world in
heels and makeup. A freakin’ huge GLAM ROCK THUMBS UP
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