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Music legends from the Stones to Bob Dylan call on producer Don Was for expert guidance - July 15th, 2011
There are kids who want to grow up and become rock stars.
And then there are the Don Fagensons — the ones whose visions of musical glory lie amid the microphones and mixing boards of a recording studio.
Read more at Detroit Free Press
David Weiss Writes - July 15th, 2011
Brother David is writing a blog – You can read it at Play Goes Strong
Live At Red Rock Rocks Lounge Las Vegas NV - September 4th, 2010
The band will be apperaing at the Red Rock Rocks Lounge Las Vegas NV Sat, Oct 16, 2010 10:00 PM. Tickets can be purchased here
The charmed musical life of Don Was - May 28th, 2010
A Rolling Stones fan’s idea of heaven would be something like living in the skin of Don Was. The bassist and record producer was, for years, a huge Stones fan, having seen them live countless times, including as a kid during the group’s first wave of British Invasion popularity in the 1960s.
Then, in the early 1990s, Was — who appears with his band Was Not Was at the Santa Cruz Blues Festival on Sunday — became the Stones’ record producer, and has helped them shape their studio sound ever since, producing every studio album since 1994′s “Voodoo Lounge.”
“I got the best seat in the house,” he said.
More @ Santa Cruz Sentinel
Luis Resto - May 12th, 2010
Luis Resto has a new album on Orchide Records titled “Combo De Momento”. It’s a vinyl only release and there’s a video for one of the songs on YouTube
Here’s some other Luis links:
Luis’ Facebook Page
Luis’ MySpace Page
Follow Luis on Twitter
Luis on SoundCloud
Thanks go to Freddie Brooks for the information.
Was (Not Was) releases career collection ‘Pick of the Litter’ - February 24th, 2010
A review of Pick of the Litter 1980-2010, an interview, and some history from the Detroit News
David Was Interview - February 9th, 2010
A long interview with David appears in issue five of “Wheel Me Out”
Pick of the Litter 1980-2010 Now available at Amazon - December 3rd, 2009
Pick of the Litter 1980-2010 is now available on pre-order from Amazon.
Track List:
1. “Wheel Me Out” (1980)
2. “Out Come the Freaks” (7” Version) (1981)
3. “Tell Me What I’m Dreaming” (1981)
4. “The Sky’s Ablaze” (1981)
5. “Should I Wait – Sweet Pea Atkinson (1982)
6. “Knocked Down, Made Small (Treated Like a Rubber Ball (1983)
7. “Walk the Dinosaur” (1988)
8. “Spy in the House of Love” (7” version) (1988)
9. “Dad I’m in Jail” (1988)
10. “Somewhere in America There’s a Street Named After My Dad” (1988)
11. “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” (Promo Edit Single) (1990)
12. “I Feel Better Than James Brown” (1990)
13. “I Blew Up the United States” (1990)
14. “Semi-Interesting Week” (2008)
15. “From the Head to the Heart” (2008)
16. “Hello Operator . . . I Mean Dad . . .I Can’t Even Remember Who I Am” (Rehearsal Version) (1989)
17. “Shake Your Head” (Steve “Silk” Hurley Remix) featuring Kim Basinger and Ozzy Osbourne (1992)
18. “Elvis’ Rolls Royce” featuring Leonard Cohen (1990)
19. “Zaz Turned Blue” featuring Mel Tormé (1983)
WAS (NOT WAS) TO RELEASE THREE-DECADE RETROSPECTIVE SET, ‘PICK OF THE LITTER (1980-2010),’ ON FEBRUARY 23, 2010 - December 3rd, 2009
Was (Not Was), dubbed “the funkier art-funk band” by The New York Times, have spanned three decades with their mutant mix of jazz, rock, R&B and funk. On February 23, 2010, Micro Werks will release Pick of the Litter (1980-2010).
Was (Not Was) at The Newport Jazz Festival - May 15th, 2009
Reports indicate that Was (Not Was) will be at the Newport Jazz Festival May 16/17 2009.
New Gigs - May 7th, 2009
Was (Not Was) descend on Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way in Santa Cruz, for shows at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $20 in advance at moes alley.
The Don Was Detroit Super Session - July 16th, 2008
Don Was no longer requires an introduction in these pages. One of Detroit’s most successful musical expatriates of the last two decades, the producer and Was (Not Was) co-leader returns this week to front an All-Star Detroit tribute at the Concert of Colors.
METRO TIMES: So tell us about the origins of the Don Was Detroit Super Session Show. We heard today that it looks like David [Was] isn’t going to make the show now.
DON WAS: Well, we’ll know when the plane leaves L.A. (laughs) He may; he may not – I don’t know for sure. But the whole thing really came about in a haphazard way. The Arab American Museum saw the Wasmopolitan site I’d done online, where we recorded and videotaped 11 Detroit artists. And they said “How about a live version of that?” I thought that’s a pretty cool idea, to do it as a revue, where everyone gets onstage and does one song. So, it’s basically an outgrowth of Wasmopolitan. But we’ve added the Detroit Cobras and the Dirt Bombs. Mitch Ryder, John Sinclair and Wayne Kramer. Lola Morales. But it’s most of the same people from the website —Black Bottom Collective, Black Merda, Sisters Lucas, the Go, the Ramrods, the Muldoons. Luis Resto. Hopefully David. (laughs).
Video – Walk The Dinosaur and Interview - July 2nd, 2008
Wonderful Was (Not Was) video (looking youthful from the 80′s) on YouTube. The lip-sync of ‘Walk The Dinosaur’ is as painful as anything from this era, but just wait for the interview at the end of the video – hilarious and brilliant. — Thanks to Mark.
Audio – Portland and Seattle, 17 May 2008 - June 2nd, 2008
Was (Not Was) recorded in Portland and Seattle, 17 May 2008, available as MP3, WAV and (soon) FLAC files.
firedrill.com/wnw.htm
Thanks to Ted.
Was (Not Was) returns to its roots - June 1st, 2008
Don Was positively flourished in the years following his band’s demise.
Was (Not Was), the open-ended musical collective with Detroit roots, had called it quits in 1992, launching Was into a career as one of music’s most in-demand studio producers. The roll call of names became towering: The Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan. Bonnie Raitt. Willie Nelson. Randy Newman.
But amid the creative flowering, the man born Don Fagenson found himself unable to muster the will to write. Daunted by the immense talent now surrounding him, Was caught himself thinking, “What’s the point? These guys are so much better at this.”
It was during a conversation with country icon Nelson that Was had his epiphany: Willie Nelson might be Willie Nelson, but Don Was was Detroit.
Interview with the “Brothers” at Gulf Coasting
