DAVID AND THE GOLIATHS PROJECT III
(1/10/05): New life has been blown into The D & G Project, as John Keonig (editor of Discoveries magazine) will print the project goal in the March issue of Discoveries! I talked to him today, and he agrees with the cause 100%. I've revamped the effort in a way that does not make Howard Kramer's e-mail directly public. I was thinking that we could push the cause in a way that reveals WHAT the Project is and how everyone could "promote" it via e-mails to The National Hall in general or any other group/individuals that can promote it, ads on their websites, word-of-mouth, printed ads, etc. This can and will happen IF we keep moving forward with everyone's help. Let me know if you have any questions, and for the first 5 people that get the project publicly printed or promoted in proven format and sent or posted at The PSPOT, will get a free CD-R of 60's Garage music (choices are flexible), the 2004 Iowa induction concert featuring GONN (3 total), or a BOMP! Music gift certificate for $20 (2 total).
P.S. Discoveries will have a spread on Little Steven and His Underground Garage Show soon too. He is on-board 100% for the National Hall to create a 60's Garage exhibit.
Let me know if anyone has any questions or comments...
Here are some legitimate and public e-mail addresses that the National Hall Of Fame has posted on its website http://www.rockhall.com/contact//FONT
Exhibits
Exhibits@rockhall.org Curatorial staff
Curatorial@rockhall.org Executive offices president@rockhall.org
Please check out the "contact" website of The National Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame above or e-mail one (1) of the specific e-mails above, and tell them in so many words that you think it is high-time that The Hall created a 60's Garage exhibit for the world to see.
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Here are a few e-mail responses to The National Hall and The PSPOT
Dear (National Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame)
My name is Katy Levy, I'm French and 37 year of age and I'm living in London, England. I'm writing to you about a possible future exhibit for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Museum about the music genre of Sixties Punk and Garage Rock. I think it would be a very good idea for the museum to dedicate an exhibition on the subject and I also think that it's a very long overdue one as well. Many people I know, all over the world, totally share my point of view.
I believe the time is also right now as this particular type of music is experiencing a new life through many international internet websites, radio programs, publications, and bands enjoying worldwide chart success (the likes of The White Stripes, Strokes, Hives, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many more) and lesser known bands but not the least dedicated (like The Fuzztones, Cynics, Stems, Sick Rose, Shutdown 66 etc). Without forgetting the original artists of the Sixties still performing to great acclaim (like The Electric Prunes, Chocolate Watchband, Kenny and the Kasuals, GONN etc).
In August last year, Mr Little Stevens put together a festival, with about 40 bands, just outside New York and a crew was on site to film the whole event which is going to be made into a documentary.
Recently an other documentary was made in the United States called "GARAGE ROCK USA". Mr Craig Werner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written influential books about rock is part of a group of people commentating the phenomenon. And as I read on, I discovered that he's also on the nominating committee for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
"Garage rock is one of the two sources of the most vital American Popular Music of the last 50 years" says Mr Werner. "A true grassroots form, it occupies a place in 'white' music analogous to that of gospel music in black America. Most crucially, neither gospel nor garage rock depended on the promise of stardom for their vitality."
So I can only reiterate the importance of looking at this unique style of music that influenced so many musicians on all continents. It was also the roots of Punk music that became so well-known and more widely recognized in the late 1970's. Without those great original bands such thing would never had happened, but I'm sure you'll agree that it's a good thing that it did!
Thank you very much Mr Kramer for having taken the time to read this message and I hope it will make a difference.
All the best
KATY
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Hi Brian
Wow What an awesome campaign idea and with someone of your determination I can't help but believe that it's going to happen. I'll pass all info along to all I know and will assist you in anyway I can.
Thank You
It Is All About The Music
Rex Garrett (GONN)
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Brian
I received your email and I did send a note to (The Hall)
about the idea. Now I know why you and Craig enjoy
each other so much --- as Rex would say - you are both
Energizer Bunnies!!! Best to your wife and family.
Thanks
Gerry Gabel (GONN)
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Hi, I am associated with Brian Jenkins at the Pspot website and would like to add my voice to his in encouraging you to pursue the idea of an exhibit dealing with the "Garage Bands" of the '60s. I too have long been a fan of these bands; I grew up listening to them and like millions of other kids back-in-the-day, I played in a garage band or two as a teenager.
It is my personal belief that this music, and its influence, has been vastly underrated over the years. Many well-known performers got their start playing in one of these bands. Many of the musicians that I watched back in the sixties in the Washington, DC area are still performing.
This is an area of Rock 'n Roll history that's not terribly well documented, so I feel that anything which would help encourage an appreciation of the music and an understanding of its influence would add greatly to the general understanding of the phenomenon we call Rock & Roll.
I stand ready to assist Brian in any way that I can to help bring this goal to reality.
All the best,
Joe Parker
Asst. Manager, The Pspot
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