photographer Dominique Tarle to the Gallery of the Day Instant
Made famous for his photographs of the Rolling Stones at the Villa Nellcôte Dominique Tarle exhibited his photographs in Paris. He will be Saturday, August 29, 2009 at the gallery. So photographic exhibition not to be missed.
No musical genre was not always so fed its own representation. The rock is probably the first art form to be able to commune with the devil as instinctively merchant (perhaps also the film). It's not the reason, Warhol, another prophet of the art business, will include a rock band in his Factory (the Velvet Underground for philistines). But beyond the celluloid mirror, the real musical revolution lies in the fact that photographers are the authors of their art and their destiny. That's what makes them so fascinating is what makes their image as intense. Imagine two seconds, a photographer Van Gogh errant kicking, writing Rimbaud, Baudelaire in the slums, Villon in the bush ... Huge.
Come to an afternoon of shooting, Dominique Tarle spent six months with the Stones component and recording what would be their last great album (that you did not know at the time) Exile on Main St. , the last lights of a core group of rock ... Dominique Tarle watched the Stones call, yell at each other, getting high, to laugh ... (live what!); catching them in flight, without premeditation, without a plan just for media ... grasp the unspeakable fluids, magic. And it is here, and she sees.
But we can not reduce Tarle at that time, incredibly rich and he could be. Just look at his other pictures of Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, the Who ... In its angle of attack, one views the quest when the musician with his music background, becomes one with his art .
the mid-70s, Tarle felt the ideological shift - it is an intuitive - and stopped to photograph what we now call rock stars. The passion and ideals have given way to the cash drawer and formatted music (see our article Rock is dead in 77), Tarle divert its objectives. Single point of interest, punk, the last sigh of a musical revolt.
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The photograph of Dominique Tarle are exposed to the Instant Gallery until 3 1 October 2009 Artist presence at the gallery Saturday, August 29 from 16h to 19h
The Gallery of the moment 46 rue de Poitou 75003 Paris
Jackson C. Franck, the martyr of folk - Blues Runs the Game - 1965 Robert
There are big names in folk Dylan, Joni Mitchell, CSN, Fairport Convention ... but also a cohort of genius burned became posthumously famous (Nick Drake) or not. Jackson C. Frank belongs to the second category. We pay tribute.
The genius is it relentlessly bound to a life drenched disappointments of various kinds of blatant injustice, repeated felonies and short circuits preventing a pop artist to meet his audience (the reverse is also possible)? One is tempted to believe. The life of one of the most talented songwriter in the folk scene is the most telling example, the evidence most compelling. C. Franck, is a genius but a genius who would have enjoyed the most appetizing dishes of destiny before an irritant as short glimpse of the late feast of fame which surrounds his legend since he dozes to six feet under ground, ignoring all of his undeniable influence, unwavering cult dedicated to him today.
Born in 1943 in Buffalo (NY), he spent his early childhood in a corner of Ohio before to move to the place of all trauma: Cheektogawa. Indeed, that is, in a small school, music lessons full of boiler accident that caused a fire that will make eighteen victims and let the little Jackson seriously wounded, deeply traumatized - nailed for seven months on a bed hospital. During this lengthy convalescence, a professor al'excellente idea to bring the boy plunged into despair a brand new guitar, just to kill time and not to sink into melancholia, he tries it, feels so comfortable that it will offer a Gretsch electric by his mother, who also knew that the child worships insatiable Elvis (Graceland already partitioned) will be in even let her meet her idol, overwhelmed by the experience that the boy lived. An unprecedented shock and the certainty of a vocation.
At 16, he decided to become a rock singer, still falls in journalism school for his key back but five years later a frighteningly large sum, compensation by insurance for the accident that almost cost him his life. He slams while luxury cars and designer suits of dubious taste. Boxes, we sell the finest in England, he went, and during his Atlantic crossing scribbled in a notebook the songs that will build his legend - (Dialogue, Milk and Honey, Carnival ...) The fantasy of the beautiful Cars can be replaced very quickly by the discovery of hallucinatory London folk scene, a pool of exceptional talent including Tim Hardin, Bert Jansher, Fred Neil take music lovers on their toes. From club to club, he finally fell on Paul Simon, hosted by a woman he meets in his nocturnal wanderings - that shock. Simon listens to handle the compound wriggling rogue has scrawled, Simon is shocked! we may be there is a new Dylan, without losing a minute, he promises to produce his first album "Blue runs The Games' record makes him discover his nuggets and passing the very singular personality of the composer. A type of shyness and an eccentricity that hides a great sorrow. Regardless, the mixture of Franck, melancholy folk deployed in a quavering voice (close to Fred Neil, for example) and quickly won the John Peel broadcasts frequently on her show's legendary BBC - listeners wanting more success and points his snout in the forest of events.
In 65, new big meeting, he falls in love with a nurse of 19 years, Sandy Denny, they come together and sing when he hears one of his own compositions, including fast enough that it should abandon his job and turned full toward a singing career, it will not be wrong, Sandy Denny also tragic destiny become one of the greatest singers of folk melodies (we will devote an article soon).
the concerts themselves, the reputation is getting stronger, until 68 or Franck learns that sales of her debut album never really took off, dropped by her record label, looking for inspiration and noting that the mode of introspective folk, hitherto predominant, is being dissolved, he decided to return to the United States where a new drama steals his young son, who suffers from a rare disease. His wife also left, he sank into depression. The descent into hell will last until 90s, when a glimmer of hope will illuminate the sidewalks of his sad decline in the person of Jim Abbott, a crazy music that manages to find the artist homelessness and trying to make him walk the path of the studios. Frank believes it is severely weakened by a life of wandering, internment, and psychological crises that have taken because of its resistance. Stiff legs walks by without a goal, with a booty bag for all rotten and a pair of broken glasses, not to mention one eye, lost because of a nutcase who played alongside Ball Trapp in the buildings. However, thanks to Franck found his young guard (it manage to make him touch the copyright on the re-release of his first album) a brief respite - until the sad year 99, worn by his sad alternative lifestyle - the coward's heart the day after its 56th anniversary. Remains his first and only hard for us to consider what would have been if no misfortune had so cruelly tied to the destiny of this amazing composer, the career of one of the most promising talents of the 60s.
With the Beatles as his career as a photographer snaps lasting. These are photos that were included in the kit Revolver designed by Klaus Voormann and made the covers of many 45s and backcover of Oldies But Goldies ! But his feat of arms is the cover of the compilation Yesterday and Today commonly called "The Butcher Cover" which was censored and removed presto market américian (a collector Now, of course!).
course, other musicians he photographed during the sixties: Clapton, the Cream (photos used as a cover for Disraeli Gears ), Mick Jagger ... before going to cultivate his land in Sussex.
The 40th Anniversary of Woodstock (Woodstock's 40th Anniversary) Part 2
There were revelations during this festival. One of them was the group formed by a young guitarist who was to mark the history of rock, Carlos Santana. Armed with a brilliant drummer, Michael Shrieve, Santana was going to discover in this youth rock fusion.
The 40th Anniversary of Woodstock (Woodstock's 40th Anniversary)
The 40th anniversary of Woodstock approach - it ran from 15 to 18 August 1969. All the biggest rock stars were present with the exception of three majors: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, who lived near the site - Led Zeppelin, The Doors et Joni Mitchell firent également partis des absents notables.
Arlo Guthrie ; Bert Sommer ; Blood, Sweat & Tears ; Canned Heat ; Country Joe and the Fish ; Country Joe McDonald ; Creedence Clearwater Revival ; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ; Grateful Dead ; Janis Joplin et le Kozmic Blues Band ; Jefferson Airplane ; Jimi Hendrix ; Joan Baez ; John Sebastian ; Johnny Winter & Edgar Winter ; Keef Hartley Band ; Melanie ; Mountain ; Paul Butterfield Blues Band ; Quill ; Ravi Shankar ; Richie Havens ; Santana ; Sha-Na-Na ; Sly & the Family Stone ; Sweetwater ; Ten Years After ; The Band ; The Incredible String Band, The Who, Tim Hardin have succeeded on a stage set up in the field of Max Yasgur, in Bethel farmer in upstate New York.
We will return extensively on this event, the speakers on the film (directed by Michael Wadleigh and edited among others by Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker), etc. on the disc.
For now, a small sample: a song's opening film of the festival that launched not Richie Havens . It was very difficult thereafter to reach the sky that had stretched Woodstock. Richie Havens seems to put everything he had in him in Freedom.
There is life after the music for several huge variety of American standards (those of Shirrell, the Shiffons, the Drifters, Bobby Vee ...) there is often a career there for sure a masterpiece. Carole King (born in Brooklyn in 47) can attest, she was initially composer and singer who became a full 70 years at the cost of that effort is essential to tell you.
was nice to see her talent recognized universally across the dazzling success that its prestigious performers (Aretha Franklin, The Monkees, The Everly Brothers ...) to play untiringly length jukebox; day comes when one wants for oneself as collect some well-deserved praise, consolidating its reputation as a composer inspired, not to let the singers put on their wigs interchangeable nylon the laurels of a genius who is not theirs and that almost makes the listener forget the galvanized monthly flow of success to become a melody must presuppose an upstream work of a very major requirement. Carol is one of countless talented and feathers from the shadows, frail nightingale studio, endless pecking seeds scattered in a chimeric notoriety, but decided to seriously take off. The young woman wants to prove to the public that it has as much talent as the groups for which she patiently carves its shimmering compositions, as much or more, but circumstances seem to gang up against her ardent desire. She trained with her first husband, Gerry Goffin, one of the most famous duets authors of tubes of the stable Aldon Music as Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman ... Until the day he met with James Taylor transforms his life. Taylor urges her to perform her own songs. It is also a sign of the times, since the Beatles, interpreters are also authors! After the dismal failure of a first album in hesitant tones ( Writer), she begins to doubt his abilities when a very specific musical identity is formed at the same time this side of America, change it will discern. Rants ideologically chaotic nebulae and communions of the sixties graduates have grown tired. We refocused on me, it admits its cracks, we want the sweet, delicate, memorable tunes and lyrics that would not be ashamed to dissect between a lost love and romance in the making. Carole is made to meet those expectations; youth of the 70s is, in turn, any designated to find yourself in the charming simplicity of a young woman that her spontaneous style makes it particularly endearing. Understanding this, she goes to work, surrounded himself wisely, and now fate TAPESTRY, his second disc. His reasons unpretentious, its images and stereotypes can be, its absolute sincerity, no doubt, is timely to blow a wind of freedom on the scalps of these same romantic parts. Everything is fresh in this disc, everything is new, everything breathes a hope that young people need to discern in the fog a dawn intoxicating. The reason is simple: in this major work, collectivism years Hippie fades for introspection very subtle style that Carole will embody beautifully. Carole finally dares to write the paper, no longer afraid to mention the anecdotal. With a gaiety which is nice to see it finally assumes its full freshness of its youth enthusiasm, the tender melancholy of his emotional troubles. Somewhat nasal voice with a hint of hesitation and charming childish pranks will be the recipe for unstoppable these miniatures unadorned, discreetly supported in this new birth by musicians with formidable intuition, those aware of the potential James Taylor its small protected generously lend him to refine his business and restore confidence. When it joins on Far Away (one of the most beautiful songs of the album signed Tony Stern) the young woman continues to praise the talent of the scalp nonchalant, and the press to come and join to magnify the initial agreements with its piano reasons. He has that right, the great James. After all, this is not to Carole that he must one of the most beautiful songs, beautiful 've got a friend. This song is with the other eleven gems that this cave contains a delightful little tubes to steal candy in a bag with multiple re-plays can not overcome, a nice woven pattern carefully to other figures to complete the tapestry our facts and emotions.
Mink DeVille was one of the great revelations of U.S. rock revival in the mid-'70s with Talking Heads, Ramones ... Combined with the punk movement, DeVille produced a powerful rock and romantic, elegant synthesis of rock and soul before mix salsa and Cajun music.
Best album of the Rolling Stones from Beggars Banquet , such was the grip of Philippe Manoeuvre in Rock & Folk for critical Cabretta . It was in autumn 77. All, his first LP was produced by Jack Nitzsche an oasis in the formatting and sizing of rock music (See our article "The rock died in 77 ). Lovers of France, William Borsay chose his name on and headlined two of her albums of French names ( The blue cat and Knockout ). Pillar of CBGB in New York (see Live at CBGB ), Mink DeVille recorded in its first decade without doubt the best album of his career unable to reach the American public support despite criticism - Le Chat Bleu was designated fifth best album of the year by Rolling Stone magazine and one of the ten best rock albums of all time by the rock critic Glenn A. Baker. Willy deVille nevertheless found in the European public (and especially French) and his unwavering support recovery Hey Joe version mariachi brought him recognition hexagonal most resistant.
In 77, Bowie is a huge star in England and begins to penetrate the U.S. permanently. Paradoxically, the Thin White Duke is almost unknown in France. So he goes to see Michel Drucker a Sunday afternoon. My God, how beautiful it is, Bowie!
Top 72, England was hit by a revival in the fifties glitz, the glam rock! Slade, Sweet, Gary Glitter are the main representatives with a cut above, Roxy Music and T. Rex and of course, David Bowie in one of his most famous mutations (see the trilogy Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs). The evaporated Glam, Bowie is taking different paths, but does not in France. He crossed the Atlantic ocean liner - he's afraid of the plane and obtains a much more convincing than successful Roxy or Mac Bolan. Her first real hit is a song co-written with an expatriate Renowned John Lennon. Fame takes first place in the billbooard 75. Master stroke! Bowie remembers France, he refined man, and there appears Thin White Duke - perhaps not a coincidence - his new avatar for the album Station to Station. A concert is given, its first in France, the La Villette slaughterhouses in 76 (distasteful?). The room is full. It is a challenge because Bowie is a UFO for the French. The Glam Rock was for them something for gays and twinks with Patrick Juvet seized. The shift of soul Young Americans was incomprehensible, the French disregarded black music in Philadelphia. S tion to Station , an album for a chapel. Heroes, post punk opus combining sophistication and modernism, conquered the French and Michel Drucker (there was even a French version of the title track). Is that a new alchemy is said in France: punk + opening for rock culture media (press, TV and radio). And here, our beautiful David on TV hexagonal plates. Beginning of a love story? Drucker, not yet 60 years of TV, floundering in her English property and incorrectly calculates the star before him (as there are still two artists who dominated the '70s in the United Kingdom: David Bowie and Elton John.) Drucker oscillates between pro and questions franchouille nice. Bowie is courteous, gentle, almost accessible. It responds like a nice guy without arrogance, and he understands the situation. Her short hair, her lack of makeup and outrageous its apparent simplicity makes it awfully tempting. He has flirted with all limits, all the excesses that accompanied every musical experiences in the seventies as completing know how to do very large: Miles Davis, Picasso ... After the TV show, Bowie will give two concerts at the Abattoirs ( yes, again!) in 77 as part of the promotional tour for the album Heroes . Unforgettable concerts - a double live Stage , rack soon after (see below). Then, Bowie will return to France often and he will fly to the sky world stars with "Let's dance."
During even Grammy we have spoken recently , Crystal Gayle, not the interpreter of the soundtrack of one of the finest films of FF Coppola's One from the Heart , delivers one of his most hits "Do not It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Close your eyes and enjoy. Well I know it's the variety, but good ...
Crystal Gayle & Tom Waits: This one's from the Heart
This moment is rather curious. Crosby, Stills and Nash, three players against the symbolic culture of the late sixties, have the best album of the year Grammy in 1977.
few years ago, CSN had the finesse to create "protest songs" to the poetic lyrics but sophisticated accessible melodies and catchy. They built their composition four major genres: folk, rock, country and pop. The skillful weaving their voices to different tessitura became their brand image. They succeeded commercially where Dylan has failed. We see here in Tuxedo chapters before doing the showbiz disciplined as children. What happened between Woodstock (69) and this time 77? Their careers are in decline, they live on their image and evoke humor who has not given up, Neil Young.
Equally interesting are the nominated albums: - Aja Steely Dan of comes after reaching the musical form that Fagen and Becker are at 10 years: a sophisticated groove rock seen by a monocle ... jazzy Intelligence not hurting anyone. - JT of James Taylor caressing the last of the U.S. charts with the hit opportunistic "Your Smiling Face" last throw of the kidneys before dark. - Hotel California Eagles of the big box of the year, what would have become CSN, variety dylanienne that flatters the American way of life. - Rumors of Fleetwood Mac, album iconic music Californian also huge cardboard, produced by an English blues band that has crossed the Rubicon. And music from the movie Star Wars - it was also true that year!
To touch briefly the context of this period, both sides of the Atlantic are buffeted by the wave punk past two years (Clash, Sex Pistols, Damned, Jam ... on English Television, Richard Hell, the Heartbreakers, Ramones, Talking Heads, Mink Deville ... U.S. side), epiphenomenon in financial terms, earthquake ideological Rick Wakeman says that after punk, it became impossible to continue what had been done before. End of term for many groups: Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull ... orientation or popular variety Santana, Chicago ... But here, we do not care. The protection seems thick.
Everyone knows there is a time when the musical art ceases to be a tool of protest, a subversive appeal, decrypting a look, a light to the soul. The music becomes a commodity calibrated reflected more concern about the perception of the broadcast. It calls it Pop.
There was rock history in this passage where those who embodied the subversion allowed themselves heavily seduced by the songs of the facility, the fabricated variety rock and destroyed hope. 77 is the final course, the point of no return, it is also the name of the first album the Talking Heads.
No musical genre was not always so fed its own representation. The rock is probably the first art form to be able to commune with the devil as instinctively merchant (perhaps also the film). It's not the reason, Warhol, another prophet of the art business, will include a rock band in his Factory (the Velvet Underground for philistines). But beyond the celluloid mirror, the real musical revolution lies in the fact that photographers are the authors of their art and their destiny. That's what makes them so fascinating is what makes their image as intense. Imagine two seconds, a photographer Van Gogh errant kicking, writing Rimbaud, Baudelaire in the slums, Villon in the bush ... Huge. 
