Once every few years I get a call to play some percussion on a record. This time the Community Theme, for The 88. Not sure if it will make the soundtrack. We shall see …
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A couple of nice articles by Jackie Otero, Thanks Jackie!
The Comet – “The Evolution of Brand-Dropping in Music.
Jackie O Media – Music licensing expert Danny Benair answers your questions
Best song ever?
Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush by Gary Roberts
Have a listen, Dylan should be taking notes!
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | July 30, 2010 6:47 pm | Comments (0)
Does not take much to get enthused by the iPhone apps, here is a Quad photo. Four photos taken in succession … Baby never looked sexier!
Hipstamatic Action
Makes Dodger Stadium look like we are back in the 70’s!!!
Me and Jeff Lynne, Hipstamatic… Just don’t mention The Move!!!
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | June 30, 2010 11:48 pm | Comments (0)
Lost…
You either did or didn’t watch this TV show. I truly enjoyed it, down to the last shot ABC slipped in to run over the credits, which added an extra layer of conjecture. They were dead the whole time, people screamed…ah no…But this does look pretty … farewell enjoyable TV!
Now I will sink back into books and a dose of bad TV…
Reading…
Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman
Rob has cleared up a lot of the myth and mystery of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett, while adding many facts, so far so good … I will keep you posted!
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | May 28, 2010 5:57 am | Comments (0)
1. Next time you visit LA – you have to visit:
The Danny Benair Record Club
Stop by!
2. Lately I can’t stop watching:
3. Lately I can’t stop listening to:
New John Grant new Paul Weller,Smoke Fairies,Race Horses…and many more..
4. This year for Record Store Day I …
Bought over $100 in records, but every week is record store day to me!
5. My favorite current fad is:
No fad for me…
6. Gazing into the NEL crystal ball, I predict …
More idiots will get into my line of work, god help bands!
7. If I could have a cameo on any currently running TV show, it would be :
30 Rock,or Mad Men
my role would be: New writer, or hired and fired on same episode…not worrying about it though…
8. Best music placement of the year so far:
That is up to someone else to decide, but I am happy with how things are going!
9. The internet pitstop I spend most of my free time lately:
Los Angeles Dodgers, Facebook, Ebay…
10. When will someone invent …
If I knew then I would just invent it!
11. Mark my words … Up and coming:
My Kreskin talents have left me…BUT! Cate Le Bon is rather good!
12. Best live concert of 2010 so far:
Royal Bangs, Cate le Bon,Smoke Fairies
13. Money is no object, you get any one material item, I would pick :
A Flat in London?
14. Ultimate night out would be diner at (or cooked by): Pizzeria Mozza..
with these 6 people: Dianne, Vin Scully, Jimmy Page, Banksy, Paul McCartney, Sandy Koufax
and then followed by going to: Sweet Lady Lanes
15. OK Stop it already people! … really what’s up with the obsession with:
Jon and Kate
16. Low-brow faves:
beverage: Diet Coke, or real low brow action Tab
food: Veggie Burger
work of art: street art
17. High-brow faves:
beverage: I am so low brow…don’t get very fancy
food: Good Japanese or Mexican
work of art: Banksy
18. Last thing that made me laugh out loud:
Baby
19. Recent best read was:
Apathy For The Devil by Nick Kent, can he come to dinner too?
20. My last “LA” moment was:
Have a member of Survivor as my waitress…
Tags: 20 Questions
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | April 29, 2010 10:59 pm | Comments (0)
Falling James, on The Quick … I was so happy to see this in La Weekly:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/off-the-record/the-quick-mondo-cd-falling/
Early Winner Of Roc Doc Of the Year (But I have a few to watch…)
White Stripes film is amazing to watch, and makes me realize why I still LOVE music!
http://www.whitestripes.com/film/film.html
SXSW Faves!
Smoke Fairies
http://www.myspace.com/smokefairies
British folk meets the blues, live have an early Fairport feel
Cate Le Bon
http://www.myspace.com/catelebon
Wonderfully talented artist on Gruff from Super Furry Animals label
Royal Bangs
http://www.myspace.com/royalbangs
Amazing live band,fantastic drummer!
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | April 3, 2010 1:30 am | Comments (0)
We all have stories that we tell, and somewhere in a little pocket in your brain, you vividly remember these moments.
In the last two weeks, two came to life out of nowhere on Facebook.
My first gig.
Junior high schooler befriends better musicians on the westside with his red sparkle Crown Drun Set, and we play Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac songs like we are in the band.
Fronted by Ron Chambliss, our Peter green/Danny Kirwan rolled into one.
They had just had Huck Finn day at Douglas Park and filled the pond with trout for the kids to catch… we got the left overs! Our pay and is beer and trout!
We’re playing at a party for the Santa Monica Jay-Cees in a garage that belongs to Ron’s step-sister Sandy and her husband.
A real garage band…
The late John Nudds, me, Mike Hurley, and Ron Chambliss.
Give us some blues!!! Photos by John Filous
My first recording gig.
The first version of The Quick stumble into a studio in their teenage fervor. Friend Ara Ashjian shoots a series of photos of me recording, probably the only time in my career I have a photo series of me playing. GREAT!
Also, check out “Tomorrow Happens Here – Pick Three with Danny Benair” on the SXSW 2010 blog here: http://sxsw.com/node/4376
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | February 28, 2010 3:19 am | Comments (0)
Good month for concerts!
I have had a smile on my face this month due to some very fun concerts.
Hotrats
Danny and Gaz from Supergrass released my fave new album Turn Ons, it is all covers and so much fun, saw them twice have zero to do with them, so this is no push on my part other than … buy the record!
There is Gaz at Spaceland.
The other smile of the month is 1990s and Franz Ferdinand membered Yummy Fur who played LA for their only time, 10 years since they broke up, great night with Neverever opening. I actually went out!
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | January 30, 2010 4:23 am | Comments (0)
We Are Ten!
Not sure that I thought I would have a company that is entering it’s tenth year.
When I started natural energy lab the licensing world was almost completely void of any companies attempting this. Am I crazy??
My idea at the time:
I believed hip music supervisors would have to spend a lot for indie CD’s and imports, it was the world prior to MySpace and iTunes.
I started the company by getting clients Grand Royal, and then ran to the UK where I did a whirlwind trip picking up many labels. There have been many changes, I think the worst are the companies stealing publishing, changing song titles, charging subscriptions cost, etc. Not so pretty…
We have stuck to our guns and joined forces with Sharal Churchill formed a publishing company called BenairChurchill Publishing. I am very excited about the future and the clients that Laura and I represent and that Sharal and I publish.
Onwards and upwards!
Danny
The decade…
I don’t do lists but a few bands that made the last ten years worthwhile… in no order: Franz Ferdinand,The 88,1990s, Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes and a ton more … just don’t have a notebook to look at!
Gospel Part 2 Laura Jane Scott’s Father Gavin Scott’s amazing series … WATCH!
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | December 27, 2009 11:00 pm | Comments (0)
Big like!
Fantastic Mr Fox, I truly enjoyed this film and when Let Her Dance by Bobby Fuller came on, a little tear … Yeah Bobby!
Funny but … Pirate Radio: Love the cast & the plot – but if you are making a film about Pirate Radio in the UK in 1966, you should not see props from labels (A & M Records) from the 70’s, it bothered the geek in me. Do not need to hear music from 6′7/’68 either! The Uk version The Boat That Rocked has a few big scenes that were cut out of the US release, that’s the way it goes … any way you slice it the film bombed world wide. Will I ever get to see Telstar?
Loving National Geographic! Have a look!
boston.com
Danny Benair's Gospels | DannyBenair | November 29, 2009 1:21 am | Comments (0)
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