I JUST STUMBLED over this on Facebook and I wanted to post it here immediately sans commentary. This is a lesson that EVERY one of you wannabe recording artists should watch until it is burned into the deepest recesses of your lizard-brain: a brief description of the managerial problems faced by a rock and roll band . . .
If you don’t know these articulate lecturers, they are Mark Volman (the hair) and Howard Kaylan (the beard). They were the two lead singers for the Turtles from 1964 through 1970.
After the group broke up, the two continued under the ridiculous name of the Phlorescent Leech & Eddie and recorded as the primary vocalists for Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention (1970-71).
Shortening their moniker to Flo & Eddie, they continued on as a comedic singing duo, which they remain more than forty years later.
Mystically liberal Virgo enjoys long walks alone in the city at night in the rain with an umbrella and a flask of 10-year-old Laphroaig who strives to live by the maxim, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a college dropout (twice!). Occupationally, I have been a bartender, jewelry engraver, bouncer, landscape artist, and FEMA crew chief following the Great Flood of ’72 (and that was a job that I should never, ever have left).
I am also the final author of the original O’Sullivan Woodside price guides for record collectors and the original author of the Goldmine price guides for record collectors. As such, I was often referred to as the Price Guide Guru, and—as everyone should know—it behooves one to heed the words of a guru. (Unless, of course, you’re the Beatles.)
Classic !! Brilliantly done