Kris and Bob Gruen singing “When You’re Smiling” for ArtSounds, an album consisting of audio art pieces by visual artists.
A new exhibition at MoMA called “Looking At Music: Side 2” explores the creative exchange between musicians and artists in New York City in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
FAAP University Museum held an exclusive exhibition of the work of Bob Gruen. Titled ‘Rockers’, the large multi-media installation featured more than 270 photos from Gruen’s catalogue, arranged in nine areas with five different background soundtracks.
I deeply miss my friend Joe Strummer. He was the strongest of men, a real inspirational leader, a guy who never seemed to tire of listening to people and talking to them, learning and teaching all the time. He had true compassion for everyone he met. He was the nicest and also the most fun loving person I’ve known.
It’s very hard to let the anger go and live peacefully, but as John Lennon said, “Imagine all the PEOPLE living life in peace” – Please, just Give Peace a chance.
Many of my friends have asked me to share my experience of the tragedy that happened on September 11, 2001, so here it is.
Sometime in the late spring of 1969, I saw an ad in the paper for the Woodstock Festival “Three Days of Peace and Music”, with a long list of bands that would be playing. In the middle of the list was ‘the Who’ and I was such a major Who fan I knew I had to go…