PHOTOGRAPHY has been a passion ever since I got my 1st camera with Green Shield Stamps back in the early 70's Have had a number of exhibitions both of Musicians tho mostly of NUDES or Naked Women as they so eloquently say in Dutch. My last expo The ARTisan was in PRAGUE in 2000. Even at that point CATARACTS were developing in both eyes & I was slowly going blind; both have been removed & I am rediscovering the joy OF Photography & these days you don't have wait overnight for your negs to dry: I have another expo lined up in JULY 2008 at the TOWNHALL (Stadhuis) in BRUGGE: I'm looking for a model for some shots for that -if anyone is interested: I have always loved strangeness in Photos & would cite Man Ray, Bob Carlos Clarke, Saudek & Weston as influences
PEOPLE LIKE US rather than people who think they are US: KINDA Bohemian(or even Moravian):VAGUELY Left: RATHER Arty: NON-Conformist: TRULY EMANCIPATED: Women mostly: a new model in particular
NICK DRAKE was deservedly rediscovered tho there are still some FORGOTTEN GREATS: Certain records have sat in my collection for more than 40 years; GEORGIE FAME, Fame at Last, Sweet Thing + Sound Venture:FIVE LIVE YARDBIRDS: JOHN MAYALL, Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton, Hard Road & Bare Wires: ALEXIS KORNER Live at the Cavern: ROLLING STONES 2nd + Get yer ya yahs out:DAVID ACKLES Subway to the Country + 2nd: MARTHA VELEZ, Fiends and Angels: LOVE, Da Capo & Forever Changes: IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY 1st; BEATLES Abbey Road: FAIRPORT CONVENTION Liege and Leif: AL STEWART Love Chronicles: + a longtime fan of COMMANDER CODY & ELVIN BISHOP: MUST ADD all the bands that I've been involved with in one capacity or another: KILLING FLOOR. ROOT & JENNY JACKSON. VICTOR BROX. JOHN PORTER. CAROL GRIMES. SALT. RAMROD. MICK CLARKE BAND. LE RUE. LONG TALL TEXANS. BALHAM ALLIGATORS. RICARD WATKINS + HART. GERAINT WATKINS. SWAMP RAT. FLATVILLE ACES. LENNA + THE SNAKEMEN. GEORGIE FAME. WILKO JOHNSON. TOWNES VAN ZANDT. SPENCER BOHREN. SONNY LANDRETH. TERRY GARLAND. BARRENCE WHITFIELD. 3 FAMOUS BELGIANS. DESPERATE DAN. ELMORES. BOB PEARCE. PRODUCERS. CHICKEN SHACK. CHRIS FARLOW. RUTHLESS. DANA GILLESPIE. MICHEAL MESSER. TODD SHARPEVILLE. 9 BELOW ZERO. PAUL LAMB. TWO TIMERS: if I've missed someone that I worked with at HOT & SWEATY PROMOTIONS I apologise & if you let me know I'll add you too It would be remiss of me not to mention VLASTA REDL. HRADISTAN. BUTY. JABLKON + VLTAVA
One of the more unlikely things that I have done was to open one of the very 1st Video Libraries -VIDIOTICS in Brighton in August 1981:My favourite recent film is 9 Songs for pushing the boundary
I don't watch TV: I am a Radio 4 listener esp the 6:30 comedy slot: switch off in time to miss The Archers: the longest running dysfunctional family in broascasting history
My ALLTIME FAVOURITE BOOK IS Even Cowgirls Get The Blues by Tom ROBBINS: anything else by Tom Robbins: Solomon Gursky was here by Mordecai RICHTLER: KINKY FREIDMAN: Len DEIGHTON for recreating the early 60's when girls wore stockings & life endangering underwear: Mervyn PEAKE for making me look in the Dictionary: Lawrence NORFOLK ditto:Kurt VONNEGUT: Micheal MOORCOCK:Phillip Jose FARMER: Kilgore TROUT(Venus on a Half Shell)(ie Farmer):John IRVING: Erica JONG esp Fanny:Mark HELPRIN esp Winters Tale:Josef SKVORECKY:Bohumil HRABAL: SHOULD ADD the Beatniks, not so much Kerouac as Gary Snyder, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Rexroth, Patchen
KEITH for remaining with us & remaining A STONE: Oliver Reed wanted to be as Brave as Richard Burton who knew he had a Drink Problem but STILL Drank himself to Death: Reed denied his drink problem ergo.........AS for Burton, coming from Port Talbot has always seemed sufficient to drink yourself etc Don't come from there but worked there for a Year or so: Paris based Photographer ROY STUART for being the master EROTOCIST