Was ist Musik James Luther Dickinson

Gott hab' ihn Zelig James Luther Dickinson, November 15, 1941 - August 15, 2009

"I only met Jim once. We were on a panel about producing with a bunch of guys talking about ‘pre-production’, ‘hooks’, Pro-Tools and ‘layering’. He and I sat at the curmudgeon end of the table and I will always love him for saying that the only conditions under which he would produce a new band was if he ‘didn’t have to go see them play’ and if the ‘first time he met them was in the studio for the session’. Spontaneity was all with Jim Dickinson, may he rest in peace."
Comment by Joe Boyd — August 16, 2009 @ 1:49 pm

"Dickinson was one of those Zelig-like legends you couldn’t help being intrigued: how could one man have played on Aretha’s Spirit in the Dark and Dylan’s Time Out of Mind and the Stones’ Sticky Fingers AND produced Big Star and the Replacements and Primal Scream?! Well, he did, is all we know. I never met the man but did two immensely entertaining and enlightening phoners with him, one about Atlantic Records and the other about Alex Chilton. He truly grasped the magic and madness of rock and roll and soul and the people who make that music."
Comment by Barney Hoskyns — August 19, 2009 @ 2:05 am

"I may have first met Jim Dickinson at South X Southwest in Austin, Texas. This was circa 1994, when Luther and Cody Dickinson (along with bassist Paul Taylor) were playing as D.D.T., a Stooges/Black Flag-influenced power trio. The boys also backed Dad at his own SXSW gig, and when Luther began tuning his guitar between numbers, Jim gently admonished him: “Son, I’ve told you many times: Tuning is decadent, European, and homosexual.” Naturally, this exchange took place on stage at Chances — at that time, Austin’s leading (only?) lesbian bar!"
Comment by Andy Schwartz — August 20, 2009 @ 9:50 pm


Spirale der Erinnerung

Delta Experimental Projects Compilation Volume 2: Spring Poems – A Collection of Songs From The Motion Picture Soundtracks Arranged And Conducted by James Luther Dickinson World Boogie is coming!

So steht es auf der Rückseite dieser Schallplatte, die 1990 auf Fan Club erschien, einem Sublabel der Pariser Firma New Rose (r.i.p.). Unter der Prophezeiung des kommenden World Boogie steht das Foto von James Luther Dickinson.

Blue Jeans, Jeansjacke, offenes Hemd über Motiv-T-Shirt, Sonnenbrille, Base-Cap rückwärts, so steht er vor einer Backsteinmauer, könnte auch Dennis Hopper in mittleren Jahren sein oder Camper Van Crackers David Lowery in seiner FSK-Zeit, eine Zeit, als auch FSK an etwas arbeiteten, das man seinerzeit World Boogie hätte nennen können, im Sinne von Disco Boogie around the world. Fortsetzung im ByteFM Blog

Starring:
Otha Turner's Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
Lesa Aldridge
The Jesters
Flash & The Memphis Casuals
The Avengers
Tav Falco & Panther Burns
Mud Boy & The Neutrons
Suicide
Sonic Boom
Spectrum meets Captain Memphis
William Eggleston
Bonnie Prince Billie