This channel is primarily about music and my record collection, however on occasion I will post something on another topic, which may not be of interest to the music or vinyl community. Please read the titles.
Norman Maslov , a native San Franciscan, is an Artist's Agent representing a small group of extremely creative commercial photographers. His agency, Norman Maslov, Agent Internationale was founded in 1986.
Mr. Maslov attended San Francisco State University studying Communications and Film, which led to a strange ten-year stint in the Recording Industry. Starting in retail record stores, he later moved on to promoting and marketing artists for MCA and ABC Records. Mr. Maslov is a passionate music lover, record collector and co-author of the very first travel guide of Beatles sites titled The Beatles' England.
He now lives just north of San Francisco in Seattle. Always snarky, never too serious.
Great picks. Wonderful time in music for me. Love this era of singer songwriters. I got to listen to many styles of music in 74 thru 78 in the USAF . Most guys had a nice stereo systems and their record collection was interesting to me, since I was from Spokane, Wa. Thanks, N.M.
I met Wim Wenders at the premiere after-party for "Buena Vista Social Club" (Melbourne 1999/2000). He was very charming & unpretentious. Apart from other subjects, I remember discussing one of his other great films "Paris Texas". (Probably also mentioning that in the 80's I had two cats, one called "Paris"...and the other "Texas"! Rumble Fish: "...a young Diane Lane". I think it was a "young everyone"?! "Manhattan" is the one for me , viewed on the 70mm compatible giant screen at the (jazz moderne art deco) Astor Theatre in St.Kilda. 👱🏻♀️♥️
Back in the early 2000s, I had three John Lennon albums and didn't know they were remixes. I haven't heard the original mixes until later on. But I found an original copy of Mind Games. Mind Games has some good songs. I don't know about you, but I prefer the original stereo mix of Mind Games. How on earth would you find original copies of these albums? They're out of print. And where can you find an original single version of Meat City? I would rather hear the original mix of Meat City single version. Not the Ultimate mix. This is an all-out cash grab, in my opinion. Have you seen that big cube set of this album? It's ridiculous. All the original mixes will be replaced with these pointless remixes. The original mix of Mind Games is fine the way it is. It really bugs me that they feel the need to remix the album when the original mix is just fine. It's not a perfect stereo mix, but it's something.
Sorry Norman, but you know remarkably little about the subject you are speaking about. Your mispronunciations are tough too. Balaclava (major battle in 1854) deserves to be properly pronounced. It is not a Greek dessert. "Rounduurs"?? Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber...They were the first ones to use the word Psychedelic in a song lyric! They were also founding members of the Fugs. They also had a notable song (The Bird Song) on the Easy Rider Soundtrack Album (a top soundtrack album of '69) They were contemporaries of Dylan (He mentions them in his book) Fred Neil. John Sebastian. IMHO I would rank Shel Silverstein over Donovan as a credible freak folk persona. Donovan lucked out with Micky Most- he brought in stablemates Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck among others to thicken his watery stew. Donovan is by all accounts a great guy and sweet person but lets face it he spent most of his time listening from his closet to see and hear what others were doing before bursting out with a passable but nonetheless insipid echo of other popular artists work. No need to go on here-but after seeing that impressive display of music merchandise behind you I was hoping to learn something from this post.
When you showed "Rumblefish", I reflexively gave a fist pump and cried "YES! BRILLIANT!!" Both the film and the soundtrack have been under the radar favorites of mine for 40 years. Stanard Ridgways off-Kilter voice with Copeland's drumming on Don't Box Me In are perfectly matched to the point that I can't imagine anyone else singing it. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou for showcasing it!
An interesting video Mazzy…gets me thinking about my son Cameron, who is currently in Denmark 🇩🇰 and will be in France 🇫🇷 next week for his work; he is a Movie fan of great knowledge already at his young age of 29yrs. I enjoy good Movies as well but cannot claim as much interest as you in any way, but, many of the artists you mentioned are favourites of mine. 👍
I had to come back to make 1 more comment after talking to my daughter about this post He favorite B&W movie The Little Fugitive 1953 Its a movie ; sorta guerrilla film making by photographers ; Raymond Abrashkin , Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin Bout a kid in Coney Island Absolutely magic movie Its another soundtrack i do not have Its on Smithsonian Folkway Eddy Manson on Harmonica Produced by Moses Asch
Thanks for this overview ... I had no idea DS produced/collaborated on so many albums! I bought 'Blemish' back in the day and still enjoy listening to it 20 years later ... R (Australia)
Had stopped listening to Boz Scaggs, but this video inspired me to check out my records and youtube for newer material based on your recommendations. Ordered 'Dig' on ebay and it is winging its way to me and came across 'Out of the Blues' in a bargain bin today. I saw the 'Silk Degrees' tour in the 70's and he put on a great concert, but I am probably too familiar with the album finding the early and later material more interesting
Thanks for giving us an update on the state of your system! I wasn't able to sleep at night because I was wondering what the state of your system was! I would wake up in a cold sweat, yelling "What's the state of Maslov's system?"
Very nice to see Dead Man! One of my favorite movies of all time. For me, it's the perfect marriage between music and visuals. It works so perfectly together and creates such an incredible atmosphere. Cheers!
Had no idea! Thanks Mazzy, we’ve never seen “Rumble Fish” for whatever reason. It sounds like something we could sink our teeth into. Besides, huge Mickey Rourke!🎧🍿🥤
My top 13 1. Plastic Ono Band . John 2. All Things Must Past. George 3. Chaos and Creation in Backyard. Paul 4. Walls and Bridges. John 5. Brainwashed. George 6. Imagine. John 7. Flaming Pie. Paul 8. Ringo. Ringo 9. Band on the Run. Paul 10. Mind Games. John 11. Cloud 9 . George 12. 33 and 1/3. George 13. Double Fantasy. John and Yoko
What's with all the snoozy L.A. singer/songwriter stuff?? Where the hell is: London Calling - The Clash (1979); Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972); Autobahn - Kraftwerk (1974); Who's Next - Who's Next (1971); The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (1975); Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon (1970); The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie; Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder (1976)??
I dig your list, it marries up to my own personal very much so. Dead Man and Wings are in my (ever changing) top 25 of all time. Another great black and white film is the original Wages of Fear.
"Carnival of Souls" - Music by Gene Moore - Directed by Herk Harvey - 1962 "Double Indemnity" - Music by Miklos Rozsa - Directed by Billy Wilder - 1944 "Down By Law" - Music by Tom Waits/various - Directed by Jim Jarmusch - 1986 "Night of the Hunter" - Music by Walter Schumann - Directed by Charles Laughton - 1955 "Night & The City" - Music by Lionel Newman Directed by Jules Dassin - 1950 "Pickup on South Street" - Music by Lionel Newman - Directed by Samuel Fuller - 1953
Thanks SO much for this. You mentioned two of my all-time faves: Rumble Fish and Wings of Desire. I think Rumble Fish is unquestionably one of Coppola's finest achievements - no kidding! I got to spend time with the sound designer on that film, Richard Beggs - when I was mixing my (black and white) film next to door to him - and he talked a lot about how carefully they melded his sound design with Copeland's brilliant score. That is a true audiophile record, BTW. (He had some amazing Apocalypse Now stories, as did the owner of the facility where we were working who was dating the Coppola's nanny back in the day, joined them all in the Philippines, then played one of the surfer dudes in the Robert Duvall sequence!!!). I've never seen the Wings of Desire soundtrack on vinyl before - I have it on CD. It is brilliant, so perfectly matched to the film which is maybe my favorite Wenders flick. As to other b&w films/scores... I have to mention Psycho, of course. The best version of the full score is on Varese Sarabande CD - well worth hunting down. It's better sounding than the full score on Unicorn LP conducted by Herrmann himself, though Herrmann's Suite from the film on Decca Phase 4 is phenomenal. Two other great Noir soundtracks are Elmer Bernstein's score for Sweet Smell of Success (directed by the ex-Ealing comedy director Alexander Mackendrick), and Henry Mancini's score for Orson Welles's Touch of Evil. Speaking of British comedies, the original 1954 Belles of St. Trinians has a brilliant score by Malcolm Arnold, extracts from which are available on an excellent Chandos CD. If you've never seen this film, I highly recommend....
Two things to contribute. Well, three… first being Deadman, Wings & Rumblefish are all excellent as films and soundtracks. Deadman was I gather done in the same way Miles did for Lift to the Scafold, live in front of the film. Second thing, Jarmusch and his Sqürl have recently been doing performance to Man Ray films in the same way. An album of this released recently on Sacred Bones. Third of three… The Lynch & Splet (1977) is the birth of industrial music and one of the most important original soundtracks ever produced. Another wonderful & inspiring video Mr Maz.
