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Cory Wong on the Stephen Colbert show. On the far left, band leader Louis Cato. Center way back, percussionist Negah Santos. To the right, Andea Owens on upright. Far right, Jay Webb. Santos and Webb tour with Cory sometimes.
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Maxx Goodman; The Girl He Built Into a Star Brought Him Home to Die: The Most Unlikely Love Story in Rock History
"c1975 in Hollywood, a gaunt, wild-eyed music visionary named Kim Fowley walked into a teenage nightclub called the Sugar Shack and spotted a 15yr old girl from the San Fernando Valley named Cherie Currie, and in that single electric moment he decided she would become the face of the most dangerous teenage rock band America had ever seen. He co-wrote Cherry Bomb for her voice in 20min. He put her on stages in Japan where screaming fans mobbed their car. He designed an image, a sound, and a destiny for a girl who had barely started living. He also verbally battered his artists in ways that Currie documented unflinchingly in her 1989 memoir Neon Angel, a book so raw and honest that Hollywood turned it into a major film. After The Runaways dissolved in bitter tension and broken promises, Currie and Fowley spent years in a state of legal battles over royalties and harsh public disputes. Most people assumed the story between them was finished, then word reached Cherie in 2008 that Fowley had been diagnosed with cancer, she reached out and moved Kim Fowley into her own home and became his full-time caregiver during the final chapter of his battle with bladder cancer. She wrote publicly that time is the great equalizer, that it had become an honor to be there for him, knowing how difficult it must have been for a man in his thirties to manage five teenage girls. They even recorded new music together from his bedside, including tracks for her long-awaited solo album Reverie. Fowley continued hosting his SiriusXM radio show for Little Steven Van Zandt's Underground Garage from his hospital bed until just days before the end. He passed away in January of 2015, with his wife Kara Wright beside him, at the age of 75. Cherie called him a genius, saying she was blessed to have truly gotten to know him again on a personal level, and thanking him for starting her career when she was just a child. The man who called himself the King of the Sunset Strip spent his final days being cared for by the teenage girl once ruled over, and she did it out of love.''
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Bass V said:
Maxx Goodman; The Girl He Built Into a Star Brought Him Home to Die: The Most Unlikely Love Story in Rock History
"c1975 in Hollywood, a gaunt, wild-eyed music visionary named Kim Fowley walked into a teenage nightclub called the Sugar Shack and spotted a 15yr old girl from the San Fernando Valley named Cherie Currie, and in that single electric moment he decided she would become the face of the most dangerous teenage rock band America had ever seen. He co-wrote Cherry Bomb for her voice in 20min. He put her on stages in Japan where screaming fans mobbed their car. He designed an image, a sound, and a destiny for a girl who had barely started living. He also verbally battered his artists in ways that Currie documented unflinchingly in her 1989 memoir Neon Angel, a book so raw and honest that Hollywood turned it into a major film. After The Runaways dissolved in bitter tension and broken promises, Currie and Fowley spent years in a state of legal battles over royalties and harsh public disputes. Most people assumed the story between them was finished, then word reached Cherie in 2008 that Fowley had been diagnosed with cancer, she reached out and moved Kim Fowley into her own home and became his full-time caregiver during the final chapter of his battle with bladder cancer. She wrote publicly that time is the great equalizer, that it had become an honor to be there for him, knowing how difficult it must have been for a man in his thirties to manage five teenage girls. They even recorded new music together from his bedside, including tracks for her long-awaited solo album Reverie. Fowley continued hosting his SiriusXM radio show for Little Steven Van Zandt's Underground Garage from his hospital bed until just days before the end. He passed away in January of 2015, with his wife Kara Wright beside him, at the age of 75. Cherie called him a genius, saying she was blessed to have truly gotten to know him again on a personal level, and thanking him for starting her career when she was just a child. The man who called himself the King of the Sunset Strip spent his final days being cared for by the teenage girl once ruled over, and she did it out of love.''
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There was certainly a yin and yang with that guy. In spite of all the heinous things that was said he did, he was a mover and shaker in the early days of L.A. rock and roll, the Hollywood Argyles’ “Alley Oop” was the first big hit he was involved with(the name of that fake band comes from a street intersection). Later on, he was the one that convinced the head of Reprise Records (where he was A&R)to pick up the American release of this wild British act with an American guitarist, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, ahead of the Monterey Festival.

I met him once, briefly. In the first decade of the 2000’s, he was still at it, managing/promoting a co-worker of mine who cultivated an eccentric wild girl image. It was at a showcase gig/party for her in an art galllery space, he was looking ghoulish as ever. The Runaways movie had just come out, I asked him about it but he didn’t persue that line of conversation. I saw him again at the humongous media store on Sunset Blvd. where the woman and I worked at the time; we hosted a promotional event for the release of Rhino Records’ “Where The Action Is” boxset*, in 2009. The reformed Standells and Jackie DeShannon performed, he didn’t look so good(and that’s saying a lot).

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en.wikipedia.org

Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968 - Wikipedia

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Michedelic said:
There was certainly a yin and yang with that guy. In spite of all the heinous things that was said he did, he was a mover and shaker in the early days of L.A. rock and roll, the Hollywood Argyles’ “Alley Oop” was the first big hit he was involved with(the name of that fake band comes from a street intersection). Later on, he was the one that convinced the head of Reprise Records (where he was A&R)to pick up the American release of this wild British act with an American guitarist, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, ahead of the Monterey Festival.

I met him once, briefly. In the first decade of the 2000’s, he was still at it, managing/promoting a co-worker of mine who cultivated an eccentric wild girl image. It was at a showcase gig/party for her in an art galllery space, he was looking ghoulish as ever. The Runaways movie had just come out, I asked him about it but he didn’t persue that line of conversation. I saw him again at the humongous media store on Sunset Blvd. where the woman and I worked at the time; we hosted a promotional event for the release of Rhino Records’ “Where The Action Is” boxset*, in 2009. The reformed Standells and Jackie DeShannon performed, he didn’t look so good(and that’s saying a lot).

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en.wikipedia.org

Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets: 1965–1968 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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it would have been a lot less fun without his input.
 

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