I think I’ve posted the above pic of J.D. Slater before, from the November 1981 Honcho. Can’t recall exactly how the rabbit hole began, but something to do with trying to cull duplicated large video files from my hard drive, and I came across Al Parker’s A Night Alone with Al Parker (1988) – which I did not have a duplicate of, so you’d think I’d move on. But no, clickeed, started watching and saw J.D.! Oh (I’m thinking) this looks early 80’s, so I turn to GEVI to see if there’s any info, like whether it appeared in an earlier video. Nope! But I did see Gevi mixed up J.D. and Daniel Holt, since they have Holt and Parker in a pairing, and JD and Al with Zeke James – who you may remember I had thought was in Rangers (which if you click through to the link, you’ll see Holt trying to chop wood, then oddly they are in a cabin with Chris Allen) – but I digress – which I did by looking up all these things trying to figure out when JD and Al did it on film! Al started making films in 1981 (or was it just the year his first film, Flashback , was released?), and didn’t release another until 1984 when he released several – One In A Billion, Rangers, Head Trips – then…. look at Slater’s output – first film (s) in 1981… HANDsome, New York Men, and no more til 1984! HANDsome! Wasn’t JD wearing that same red hanky around his neck as he is in his scene with Roy Garrett as he is with Al Parker in A Night Alone?
Wait, but the cabin in the woods from A Night Alone – that’s not HANDsome – I think it’s Steve Scott’s Wanted – which also came out in 1981! Oh wait – Steve is credited on A Night Alone as co-director – could this clip be an “outtake” – or just something that didn’t fit into the Wanted narrative??!
and then I discovered this ad – see above from TMX video distributor, with BOTH films! WTF! Which made me search for JD pics, and I got the one at the top of this post, and saw some additional pics of him with an unidentified guy, below, from photographer PHIL FLASCHE, so I looked for more work from him in case there’s another clue – and the are several books for sale on eBay – way out of my price range, and the preview pics don’t even show early 80’s stuff…
and that’s why I have so many post ideas in my drafts folder, and why the blog is called bj’s gay porno-crazed ramblings