Graham Parker documentary

[schwenko]

and new album with The Rumour

from the Television mailing list:

"Michael Gramaglia co-directed the Ramones film "End of the Century", which seems to have been one of the most successful music docs in recent years, as it earned several hundreds of thousands dollars at the U.S. box-office.
Despite that, he couldn't get this next music doc funded, until he finansed it through Kickstarter.com, by raising 50,000 dollars by some hundred people who wanted to see a film about veteran singer Graham Parker. (It should be said here that Parker is another fave artist of mine, and that he -- contrary to some other -- has put out records regularly through the years to the delight of his tiny audience, and some of the albums from this side of the millennium
is clearly among his finest.) When the film was ready, it was ejected by most film festivals, as they didn't knew who Parker is or what he's done.

I think this story is a bit telling about the reality of this sector of show-biz. It seems a bit tragic, but as someone on the list may know, there's a sunshine ending: All of a sudden, comedy director Judd Apatow jumped out anddeclared himself a Graham Parker fan, offered GP a part in the sequel to "Knocked up", got GP to reunite with The Rumour on the set and then in the studio, and a new record -- their first together in 32 years -- will be released at the same time as the film. And Gramaglia withdrew *his* film and will also re-release it later, recut and extended. It's called "Don't As Me
Questions", by the way."



Sugoi !!!

[wasproxy]

I was a GP fan too ... until I read some of his socialist rants.
Parker and liberal leftist Hollwood are a match made in heaven...

http://chairmanparker.blogspot.com/2009 ... obama.html