WOW! WOW! WOW! – just watched this, soooo cool! Man Parrish and the story behind his music for Joe Gage’s Heatstroke. Just one of about 40 chapters in this series, Man Parrish Stories, that he put together last summer after deciding writing a book wasn’t goona happen, why not just make, and publish, himself telling his stories? Can’t wait to watch more!
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That was awesome- thanks for posting!
wasn’t it, though? can’t wait to watch others; but for obvious reasons I watched the “porn” story first!
I so loved Gage’s films. It was more than porn. They had stories. Very hot!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I really only knew about him from Heatstroke and I didn’t know what an amazing life and career he has had. I am working my way through the rest of the videos. He has some incredible stories.
I got to meet him back in the early 2000’s when he had a night at The Cock called Sperm – amazing DJ, and sweetheart. Some of his porn soundtrack work is getting re-issued (actually, other than Heatstroke, it was never commercially available, but he did the soundtrack to Joe Gage’s HANDsome, and others. Need to post more on that!
I saw a few of these when he posted them last summer, once you get used to the way he speaks and how his mind works they are pretty interesting. The ones where he talks about other celebrities were the ones I enjoyed the most, be it David Ogden Stiers on MASH or his memories of Boy George and Madonna. It’s also too bad that as much music as he has made that people have heard, he seems to be a bit of a Bad Luck Betty in getting much (if any) of the royalties from creating the music that he did. Somebody got paid a lot of money for Hip Hop Be Bop back in the day, but I guess it wasn’t him.
here’s a bit of good news on the “royalties” front – well, not royalties, but a chance to get a few bucks from some re-issues
http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/roy-garrett-hot-rod-to-hell-lp/#tab-description
I’ve been meaning to post about this, especially since there is an event in LA on the 14th – see link
http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/interview-with-man-parrish-in-los-angeles-on-valentines-day/
That does look interesting, and I’d like to hear that cassette someday, both the music and the spoken words by Roy Garrett. You don’t have it do you? Or maybe the better question would be, “you didn’t have it, did you?” because I know you’ve parted with a lot of what you used to have.
Dark Entries is the label that released the Patrick Cowley albums over the past few years, the music from the Fox Studios releases was remastered and sounds great on CD. Probably even better on vinyl.
His old youtube channel was moved, or renamed so the urls for those clips don’t work anymore. But the link below has the same story of how he met Joe Gage and did the Heatstroke music, which led to his career taking off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3sTHIL1PSg
And if you click on the uploader name that takes you to his account where the rest of the clips are now.
not sure what you mean – the video in my post still plays… and the utube link in the video takes you to his page…
I just get a black box now where the video would usually play, and no links at all. I think he hosted those clips on another yt channel but that was deleted so he re-uploaded them, which changed all the urls. But I could be wrong..
I linked to your Heatstroke category when I reviewed that film the other day, it led me here and I just wondered if you had maybe still been linking to where the clip was back when you did this post five years ago. But if it still works for you (and others) then it must just be on my end.
odd – let’s see if anyone gets a black box like you, or shows the actual video embedded like me
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q3sTHIL1PSg – this video
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBpo85sMYTg1HADoco4eqpg – Man Parrish Stories
I think I just figured this out, and it was me, not you or your site. On the browser I use to come here, I have it default set to block scripts and the like from every site unless I manually add an exception to the ‘no script’ add-on list. And I had never added youtube before because I watch those videos on the other browser I use for that kind of stuff. By adding youtube to this list, then coming back here and refreshing the page the Man Parrish video showed up in your little player window and I could see and watch it.
I guess I just assumed that it was the old url I mentioned above so I wanted to mention it in case the vid wasn’t working for anyone else. So basically forget I mentioned any of this, just picture me as Gilda Radner on SNL saying ‘oh, never mind’ and carry on.