Deaf Jam
Film maker Don Letts was in Toronto recently, for a retrospectiove of some of his films. Here's a writeup from Vibes and Stuff of the Q&A after his doco on Gil Scott Heron screened. Sounds very entertaining, not unlike the Q&A featured on the DVD extras for Letts' "Punk Attitude" doco.
Then this happens...
Snip... "The Q&A session started up well enough with some interesting queries, but as the questions started to become vague statements, a white-haired man proceeded to the front of the stage, shaking Letts’ hand. The man turned out to be notorious former Clash manager Bernie Rhodes, who apparently lives in Toronto now. In response to a barely audible question about swastikas and punk, Rhodes went on a rambling monologue on how he put together the Sex Pistols, The Clash, acid jazz and Def Jam(???).
Now I’ll give him some credit for at least being involved to some degree in the first two. But acid jazz and Def Jam? According to Rhodes, the reason Russell Simmons didn’t mention him in his recent biography was because Russell ‘didn’t want to give any credit to a white person’ for helping to start Def Jam. Hmm Rick Rubin anyone?"
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