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irrelvent facts i thought you'all might enjoy

January 4, 2005 -- NONE of the obituaries for Artie Shaw mentioned that he
had a son, Jonathan Shaw, 50, a famous tattoo artist who owned Manhattan's
oldest tattoo parlor, Fun City, on St. Marks Place. "He never talked about
his father. He didn't like his father," said Michelle Myles, who bought the
shop from Jonathan in September just before he moved to Rio de Janeiro. "He
was pretty much done with tattooing and done with New York," Myles said.
Artie Shaw - the clarinet-playing big band leader known as much for his
arrogance as his music - had already been married to Lana Turner and Ava
Gardner when he made Doris Dowling his seventh wife in 1952. Dowling, star
of "The Blue Dahlia" and "The Lost Weekend," gave birth to Jonathan before
the marriage dissolved. She died last June. "He was close to his mother,"
Myles said. Jonathan, who edited Outlaw Biker Tattoo Review and
International Tattoo Art magazine in the '90s, popularized the all-black
tribal style and opened Fun City even before tattooing became legal in 1997.
Said one East Villager, "He did all the Yakuza who have their backs covered
in tattoos. It wasn't uncommon to see black limos parked outside his shop
with big Japanese guys on ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^the sidewalk waiting."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) A new focus for the TV mailing list


> --- Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:
> > As an example, I have the Velvet Underground box set of CDs that
> > came out
> > a while ago, and it's got a 5th disk of demos and outtakes.  I've
> > listened
> > to it exactly once, since it turns out there was a reason this
> > stuff wasn't brought out to the general public!
>
> That disc on the VU box always gets a bum rap. First, I *like*
> hearing Cale singing "Waiting for the Man" in that weird, slow
> arrangement. Second, once fans knew there was a 90-minute VU
> rehearsal tape floating around out there, they HAD to release it, or
> it would achieve mythic status.
>
> Plus, anyway you look at it, those demos are at least as enjoyable as
> 30 minutes of low-quality video footage of Tom trying, futilely, to
> teach Richard Hell the bass line of "Venus"... and I have a funny
> feeling a lot of us have seen that footage more than once.
>
> --Phil
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