Closing down Broadway from 47th Street to 53rd Street, the CBGB Fest put a stage at each side, and gave nyc free music, really really good music, from 11am to 2pm and then again from 430p to 8p.
Very excited for the CBGB’s Festival this week, I was out of commission with a bad cold (a real disappointed, I went to the doctor essentially certain I was gonna die any second only to be dismissed without even strep throat) and missed just about everything. Especially painful: I missed the “Acoustic Anarchy” show rock nyc was a promotional partner on.
“It is hard to go a pitch in Hollywood and sit across from a guy who says ‘OK, explain Miles Davis to me,” that was Vince Wilburn Jr. , Miles’ nephew, expressing his unconcealed contempt for the movie business.,”So I stopped going to the pitches because it was personal, I took it personally.”
It is a nod to Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov’s literary work, but has a story all its own. It’s about the pale fire that pierces darkness & ignites a revolution of the heart, the mind, or the people.
My old buddy Billy Idol, who I interviewed at Aucoin management (an awesome place filled with Kiss pinball machines and in office fountains) back back back and who is a great guy is the key note speaker on Thursday, October 9th at 6pm. This will be at the CBGB’s HQ
BAD LANDS are the thoughts you had last night while you were drinking & the words you let slip out that aren’t forgotten. Mowgli + Rocky, charming villains.
From our panel participation and various Austin visits, we teamed with our Rock Star publicist (Karen Sundell) and had a brainstorm to create an annual Miles experience. We got so much love from SXSW and the music community, wanting more Miles, that we decided to roll-out an event that would honor Miles, while supporting the next generation of musicians
