Sad news -- Kim Fowley passed away. Now he was old, and had been fighting cancer for about three years but he was still doing his show on the Underground Garage and making appearances and such as well as running a producers workshop down in LA until the end. The guy who brought us Theyre Coming to Take US Away and managed the Runaways and supposedly invented the holding up lighters at concerts crap while working with the Plastic Ono Band was an interesting guy. I dont think he really meant any harm, and he did produce some very interesting stuff. He was a raging, self-centered asshole, I suppose. He also appears to have been a nice guy who when sober admitted to having been a less than stellar human being. He made peace with people hed hurt -- and in fairness, had hurt him back -- got married a couple of months ago to his much beloved girlfriend, and was funny as hell as well as a perceptive commentator on Steven Van Zandts station on Sirrius XM. He didnt take himself too seriously, and didnt take rock and roll too seriously, while at the same time taking the position that it did change lives and culture in ways that no one expected. It changed mine. And, he made me laugh...and think.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:10:24 +0000
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