Moondog used to stand on the corner of 6th Ave. & W. 54th St., right under my father's office window in the Warwick Hotel. I was in school on the East Side & would often walk down meet my father. I used to talk with Moondog regularly & he gave me poems he had written. This was in the mid-late 60's. He was a real sweet character.
This was a nice film. I am a lucky guy who have seen two concerts By moondog. One was at historical Museum in Stockholm 1986 He played the creation as i remembered Not seen that piece released
thanks for this video! I'd like to watch the full documentary but I think they scammed the people on Kickstarter or something... no response whatsover, no updates
My Dad knew Moon Dog when they both lived in Batesville Arkansas must have been in the 1930's probably when they were teenagers Moon Dog taught my Dad how to sing and play guitar which my Dad did very well, he told me about his good friend Moon Dog when I was a young boy in the 1960's
I know I’ve heard of him before and his music. But the song “High On The Rocky Ledge” played at the end of an OFMD episode, and I was blown away by how utterly beautiful it is. So had to hop on RU-vid to hear more. Thanks for shining a light on this wonderful musician’s life.
I spent an hour googling and redditing him after I watched the Outer range episode. So similar things led us here to learn about this man, brave enough to live his dream; gifting the world with his music and poetry.
I used to visit with Moondog all of the time back in the 1970's. He was a fascinating and highly intelligent man and one of the true landmarks of old time New York City.
I was thinking about it during the video, if he never got blinded...he mightve got drafted in ww2 and wouldn't have even had the chance to express his art.
I just found out about Moondog. I was watching Our Flag Means Death and "High Over a Rocky Ledge" starts playing at the end I've never heard it before, i've never heard his voice before. But it brought me to tears.
The portrait of Moondog, you created is really felicitous! I heard his music for the first time at the end of the 1970s on the Austrian television show Trailer. In the late 90s I inherited two Moondog CDs from my brother and got deeper into his music. I particularly like these actually short canons with percussion, which can be played almost indefinitely like „My Tiny Butterfly“, Cheerio, fil of WeinHara.
His music is just amazing to listen to. Paris might be my favorite of his work so far. Thanks for making this, it was really well made and gave me a lot of insight to the type of person Moondog was.
I forgot all about this man. He really inspires me. I have one arm and as I type this, I am currently pursuing my degree in Graphic Design. Here is this guy, this man, who is blind and still composed music for 60+ years. If he can do that, what's stopping me from doing that?
One very important thing, in my opinion, you forgot to mention about Moondog . A thing that is important to every MAN, but nowadays has, sadly, little or none value. He rarely, or never did COMPROMISE, Moondog was always his own, original, never sold out (... and he could - BIG TIME/FAME/BUCKS. ). I respect him very much becouse of that. There are very few people like him today, becouse "compromise" is easier way out..., but little by little you lose your "original", true self, and with compromises slowly become generic shadow of yourself. R. I. P. - Moondog.
Moondog was a Kansas boy. The first time I heard his music, it was "Enough About Human Rights" on KJHK, the college radio station in Lawrence Kansas. Great song.
Excellent documentary ! His quote at the end, astoundingly profound thank you for that gift to me. I was unaware of this beautiful soul. I shall not forget him.
Before I even knew about moon dog I spent 4 summers in NYC down in the east village and around Tompkins Sq, I loved browsing through all the cool record shops and I picked up a couple of prints of moondog standing where he would back then, I was just draw to them.
Beautifully done, thank you for sharing this info about such an amazing character. I worked in Midtown Manhattan for many years, in the area that Moondog spent much of his time. I'm sure that I must have passed by him, but to me, a lifelong New Yorker, I saw all sorts of characters, so if I did pass by Moondog I didn't pay any attention to him.
‘Been fascinated by his music for many years now! I’ve enjoy hearing him on the Big Lebowski soundtrack or listening to Big Brother and the Holding Company’s cover of “All Is Loneliness”
Wonderful film, just lovely. I live in the uk , but last year my friend came to visit us from NYC. He spotted a felt doll my wife had made me of Moondog ,that was sitting on a shelve . He asked me about it and I said it is moondog of 6th avenue. He then told me at his school Moondog came and did some talks . I then played him a Moondog record ,he had never heard his music before.
I met Moondog in the summer of 63' or 64', while walking on Broadway in NYC, It was a very hot day, my two dumb friends had jumped into the Hudson River to cool off. Then we walked around the city. We were twenty five feet away from Moondog, he looked our way and said "how was the swim boys?" Huh? How did he know? I asked , He said in a very gentle and jocund manner "..I could smell your friends!".
Very good video edit: my bad, did not pay attention to the spotify link... edit2: I'm sorry I did not saw the name of the song used was displayed on the video also...
I am Maxwell Hardin, 7th cousin of Moondog. Born of a preacher in Tennessee. Born one year to the day after my cousin's death, I can't believe I'm just now finding him, the parallels are completely uncanny. Thank you for this biography.
Excellent video. He was one of nature's truly original prototypes which saw production no more than the concept, for whatever reason. Probably at Moondogs request...
