Phil Spector's biggest fan: Charles Manson
Convicted cult leader Charles Manson is reported to have reached out to convicted music producer Phil Spector, suggesting that the two jailbirds collaborate on pop songs. Both men are serving life sentences in institutions in the central California city of Corcoran.
According to the New York Post, Manson, who is in Corcoran State Prison, is said to have contacted Spector shortly after the producer arrived last month at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, dispatching a guard with a note. "[Manson] said he wanted him to come over to his [cell]," Spector's wife, Rachelle, told the New York Post - an assertion later disputed by California's department of corrections. "He said he considers Philip the greatest producer who ever lived."
Certainly Manson has a right to an opinion. Though his clan, the Manson Family, are known as killers, they were also conceived as a music group. Before launching the murder conspiracy that killed Sharon Tate, Manson and his followers recorded songs with the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson. Terry Melcher, who produced the Byrds' Turn, Turn, Turn, was another acquaintance – and a target – of the group.
Spector managed to avoid the Manson Family, mixing instead with the Supremes, Ike and Tina Turner, and Manson's beloved Beatles.
"I think Manson wants to glean some musical advice from Phil, who was a 60s music god with his 'Wall of Sound,'" Spector's publicist Hal Lifson told the New York Post. "Phil's like, 'I used to pick up the phone and it was John Lennon or Celine Dion or Tina Turner, and now Charles Manson is trying to get a hold of me!'"
And even though Spector must serve at least 19 more years for the murder of Lana Clarkson, he is still not interested in a Manson team-up. "It was creepy," Rachelle Spector said. "Philip didn't respond."
• This article was amended on 31 July 2009. The original said that Manson and Spector were in the same prison. This has been corrected, and the article updated to include a denial by the prison department.
from....http://ready4thehouse.blogspot.com/
note; If it ever did happen. Can you imagine how bad it would be?
One artist past his prime and the other guy, was given great chance yet his music just sucked, so he got mad and ........
(some that were rejecting him were targets)
Now if Phil was held at Knife point, in his prime, and did to a wall of sound with Chuck, it may have been an amazing concept LP.
I think working in studio with Charles and Family could have been over the top.
(yet Phil CAN handle a gun)
8/6/09
Murder INC.?
Phil Spector's biggest fan: Charles Manson
Convicted cult leader Charles Manson is reported to have reached out to convicted music producer Phil Spector, suggesting that the two jailbirds collaborate on pop songs. Both men are serving life sentences in institutions in the central California city of Corcoran.
According to the New York Post, Manson, who is in Corcoran State Prison, is said to have contacted Spector shortly after the producer arrived last month at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, dispatching a guard with a note. "[Manson] said he wanted him to come over to his [cell]," Spector's wife, Rachelle, told the New York Post - an assertion later disputed by California's department of corrections. "He said he considers Philip the greatest producer who ever lived."
Certainly Manson has a right to an opinion. Though his clan, the Manson Family, are known as killers, they were also conceived as a music group. Before launching the murder conspiracy that killed Sharon Tate, Manson and his followers recorded songs with the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson. Terry Melcher, who produced the Byrds' Turn, Turn, Turn, was another acquaintance – and a target – of the group.
Spector managed to avoid the Manson Family, mixing instead with the Supremes, Ike and Tina Turner, and Manson's beloved Beatles.
"I think Manson wants to glean some musical advice from Phil, who was a 60s music god with his 'Wall of Sound,'" Spector's publicist Hal Lifson told the New York Post. "Phil's like, 'I used to pick up the phone and it was John Lennon or Celine Dion or Tina Turner, and now Charles Manson is trying to get a hold of me!'"
And even though Spector must serve at least 19 more years for the murder of Lana Clarkson, he is still not interested in a Manson team-up. "It was creepy," Rachelle Spector said. "Philip didn't respond."
• This article was amended on 31 July 2009. The original said that Manson and Spector were in the same prison. This has been corrected, and the article updated to include a denial by the prison department.
from....http://ready4thehouse.blogspot.com/
note; If it ever did happen. Can you imagine how bad it would be?
One artist past his prime and the other guy, was given great chance yet his music just sucked, so he got mad and ........
(some that were rejecting him were targets)
Now if Phil was held at Knife point, in his prime, and did to a wall of sound with Chuck, it may have been an amazing concept LP.
I think working in studio with Charles and Family could have been over the top.
(yet Phil CAN handle a gun)
