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Post by respiratoryproblems on May 5, 2021 6:03:39 GMT
I've never believed one word this guy has posted. I think he’s on the level, but that level is just a few rungs up from Steve as the trust-fund kid of someone in ‘the business’. The only thing I’ll say in his favour is that he knows it, rather than pretending he’s made any important contributions of his own.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on May 5, 2021 8:59:35 GMT
rkt88's name appears to be Mark James but I can't find any social media on him. A comment on a review by ‘medsimona’ on a Doors book: “ i have the unique perspective of not only being present at danny's house on mulhollland ( which ray paid for ) but also was employed at elektra/asylum at the time of danny ( and jerry'd ) authorship. there are huge numbers of inaccuracies in this book and far more accurate and comprehensive books about the group as well as corrosion himself have been written. the names of which escape me. another reason i have some deep inside info vis a vis the groups early and even later ( later??! ) history is that my father, Billy James was the person that actually first signed them to a recording contract at Columbia Records in 65. very short shrift if given the truth in this book and danny was kind enough to include me in what were either the first editions but i was later edited out of the book as i was only the "marching feet" of the track "unknown solider" and "Handclapped" on "wild child" but my mentor and great friend and their "producer"; Paul Rothchild ( with bruce botnick presumably engineering the recordings along with possibly "john haeny another elektra "house engineer".."?? ) chose to edit the handclaps out of wild child while i can still be heard marching in cadence very clearly on "the unknown soldier". the irony that i was on the "unknown solider and "wild child" given i am but a footnote in the world of 60's music largely though my associations with the "greats" as a direct result of merely being "my father's son" and working as an a&r guy for holzmans elektra/asylum briefly. but i was given some rather harsh references by superman in his "autobiography "wonderland avenue" which is such an amalgam of half truths/ embellishments and half lies, that he at least "re-named" me "Jesse" rather than calling me "Mark James" as I'd have sued to SH8T out of him for defamation. anyone familiar with that "wonderland ave" book and "my" character in it "Jesse" will immediately understand why. in any event. i should've written my OWN book as i was there from the beginning also. pre-dating the fawning and obsequious Danny Sherman may he squirm in peace LOL. best, Mark James”
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on May 5, 2021 10:18:02 GMT
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Post by respiratoryproblems on May 5, 2021 10:41:02 GMT
This guy has receipts. I can only imagine STeVE seething with jealousy.
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Post by powerpoppackage on May 5, 2021 12:03:08 GMT
I suppose I stand corrected but this guy still bores me.
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Post by Last Rock Hope on May 5, 2021 17:00:18 GMT
rkt88's name appears to be Mark James but I can't find any social media on him. A comment on a review by ‘medsimona’ on a Doors book: “ i have the unique perspective of not only being present at danny's house on mulhollland ( which ray paid for ) but also was employed at elektra/asylum at the time of danny ( and jerry'd ) authorship. there are huge numbers of inaccuracies in this book and far more accurate and comprehensive books about the group as well as corrosion himself have been written. the names of which escape me. another reason i have some deep inside info vis a vis the groups early and even later ( later??! ) history is that my father, Billy James was the person that actually first signed them to a recording contract at Columbia Records in 65. very short shrift if given the truth in this book and danny was kind enough to include me in what were either the first editions but i was later edited out of the book as i was only the "marching feet" of the track "unknown solider" and "Handclapped" on "wild child" but my mentor and great friend and their "producer"; Paul Rothchild ( with bruce botnick presumably engineering the recordings along with possibly "john haeny another elektra "house engineer".."?? ) chose to edit the handclaps out of wild child while i can still be heard marching in cadence very clearly on "the unknown soldier". the irony that i was on the "unknown solider and "wild child" given i am but a footnote in the world of 60's music largely though my associations with the "greats" as a direct result of merely being "my father's son" and working as an a&r guy for holzmans elektra/asylum briefly. but i was given some rather harsh references by superman in his "autobiography "wonderland avenue" which is such an amalgam of half truths/ embellishments and half lies, that he at least "re-named" me "Jesse" rather than calling me "Mark James" as I'd have sued to SH8T out of him for defamation. anyone familiar with that "wonderland ave" book and "my" character in it "Jesse" will immediately understand why. in any event. i should've written my OWN book as i was there from the beginning also. pre-dating the fawning and obsequious Danny Sherman may he squirm in peace LOL. best, Mark James” Billy James is still alive and on Facebook. rkt88 has mentioned a brother named Jackson. Jackson is also FB and is in Billy's friends list, but rtk88 himself does not seem to have a Facebook or an Instagram. Not that I could find anyway...and I have tried. This guy has been pissing me off since the Velvet Rope* days! *another annoying message board not unlike Hoffman's place except more "industry'' oriented. I was just a lurker there. Anyway, this was quite a few years ago and rkt88 was there doing this same routine. When he showed up at Hoffman's I was like ''not this guy!'' But sure enough it's him and he's even used the same avatar since VR
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on May 5, 2021 17:11:01 GMT
A comment on a review by ‘medsimona’ on a Doors book: “ i have the unique perspective of not only being present at danny's house on mulhollland ( which ray paid for ) but also was employed at elektra/asylum at the time of danny ( and jerry'd ) authorship. there are huge numbers of inaccuracies in this book and far more accurate and comprehensive books about the group as well as corrosion himself have been written. the names of which escape me. another reason i have some deep inside info vis a vis the groups early and even later ( later??! ) history is that my father, Billy James was the person that actually first signed them to a recording contract at Columbia Records in 65. very short shrift if given the truth in this book and danny was kind enough to include me in what were either the first editions but i was later edited out of the book as i was only the "marching feet" of the track "unknown solider" and "Handclapped" on "wild child" but my mentor and great friend and their "producer"; Paul Rothchild ( with bruce botnick presumably engineering the recordings along with possibly "john haeny another elektra "house engineer".."?? ) chose to edit the handclaps out of wild child while i can still be heard marching in cadence very clearly on "the unknown soldier". the irony that i was on the "unknown solider and "wild child" given i am but a footnote in the world of 60's music largely though my associations with the "greats" as a direct result of merely being "my father's son" and working as an a&r guy for holzmans elektra/asylum briefly. but i was given some rather harsh references by superman in his "autobiography "wonderland avenue" which is such an amalgam of half truths/ embellishments and half lies, that he at least "re-named" me "Jesse" rather than calling me "Mark James" as I'd have sued to SH8T out of him for defamation. anyone familiar with that "wonderland ave" book and "my" character in it "Jesse" will immediately understand why. in any event. i should've written my OWN book as i was there from the beginning also. pre-dating the fawning and obsequious Danny Sherman may he squirm in peace LOL. best, Mark James” Billy James is still alive and on Facebook. rkt88 has mentioned a brother named Jackson. Jackson is also FB and is in Billy's friends list, but rtk88 himself does not seem to have a Facebook or an Instagram. Not that I could find anyway...and I have tried. This guy has been pissing me off since the Velvet Rope* days! *another annoying message board not unlike Hoffman's place except more "industry'' oriented. I was just a lurker there. Anyway, this was quite a few years ago and rkt88 was there doing this same routine. When he showed up at Hoffman's I was like ''not this guy!'' But sure enough it's him and he's even used the same avatar since VR Jimi Laluma needs to show up at SH.tv.
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Post by krabapple on May 5, 2021 17:18:25 GMT
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Post by Last Rock Hope on May 5, 2021 17:25:21 GMT
LaLumia is on twitter. Still ranting about Max's Kansas City and Cherry Vanilla.
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Post by cockledge on May 5, 2021 18:15:59 GMT
It must eat at this dude that Danny Sugerman beat him to the boomer hanger-on self-hagiography punch.
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Chungus
Sir Ringo
High time we had a definitive Who CD pressings thread
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Post by Chungus on May 11, 2021 18:14:12 GMT
rkt88 is the Zelig of ancient Los Angeles hipster scenes. Whatever the extent of the truth is, I don't envy a guy who constantly needs to place himself as a superfluous bystander at places and events that happened before I was born. What he doesn't realize is that the strong scent of hyperbole in his stories (he not only was at the Melcher/Manson murder house a few times, he *learned to swim* in the pool there) makes him useless as far as actually passing on any valid oral history.
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Post by hugofuguzev on May 12, 2021 6:22:19 GMT
rkt88 is the Zelig of ancient Los Angeles hipster scenes. Whatever the extent of the truth is, I don't envy a guy who constantly needs to place himself as a superfluous bystander at places and events that happened before I was born. What he doesn't realize is that the strong scent of hyperbole in his stories (he not only was at the Melcher/Manson murder house a few times, he *learned to swim* in the pool there) makes him useless as far as actually passing on any valid oral history. Remember, though, a fair amount of Hoffmanites still hang on Steve's every goddamn utterance as well. Steve-O needs to bring good old John Oteri out of mothballs in order to compete with some of these scenester upstarts.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on May 16, 2021 3:21:56 GMT
These guys that were at every event of note in the 60s and 70s and 80s...how is it they don't know each other or haven't seen each other? And how come real, actual people that were there don't ever talk about them, either? It's almost like they're lying or something.
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daved
Better than Steve
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Post by daved on Jun 28, 2021 10:28:45 GMT
This guy is insufferable:
Zappa's Freak Out:
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jun 28, 2021 16:06:06 GMT
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