Nicky Wonder, longtime guitarist for Brian Wilson and cofounder of power pop band the Wondermints, has died. He was 59.
“It is with my deepest regret to tell you that our beloved Nicky Wonder passed away last night in his sleep. We are in a state of shock as you can imagine,” Brian Wilson said in a statement on his official website. “But we are going to honor him with tonight’s show. Nicky was my favorite guitar player ever. I always loved the way he used his fingers.”
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“It is with my deepest regret to tell you that our beloved Nicky Wonder passed away last night in his sleep. We are in a state of shock as you can imagine,” Brian Wilson said in a statement on his official website. “But we are going to honor him with tonight’s show. Nicky was my favorite guitar player ever. I always loved the way he used his fingers.”
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- 8/8/2019
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Hollywood Vampires: The Birth of Midnight Movies on L.A.'s Sunset Strip is a three-part series of essays by Tim Concannon.Once Upon A Time On The Sunset STRIP1969 on the Sunset Strip was a period of dislocation, dissipation and dissolution from which the Hollywood of the Seventies emerged. A movie theatre adjoining Santa Monica Boulevard, where the Underground Cinema 12 film festival held sold-out midnight shows attended by thousands of Freaks, is an overlooked catalyst of L.A.'s underground scene, alongside Pandora's Box, the club recreated in Riot On the Sunset Strip (1967) and which was the focus of the November 1966 Sunset Strip disturbances.Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood—which is woven around the Manson family murders in 1969, though it isn't focused on them—is situated in the same unsettling hinterland between film stardom and savage violence that Peter Bogdanovich's Targets touches on as well.
- 7/31/2019
- MUBI
In addition to getting their Blu-ray horror and sci-fi fix from Shout! Factory's booth #4118 at this year's Comic-Con, fans can also experience exciting future Scream Factory title announcements at the "Inside Look" panel taking place Friday, July 10th at 7:30pm in Room 24Abc:
Press Release: "Now a mainstay at San Diego Comic-Con International, Shout! Factory returns to the convention in 2015 with a dynamic line-up sure to delight pop culture enthusiasts of all ages. Shout! Factory is a leading multi-platform entertainment company, and its Comic-Con offerings, which span its popular Shout! Factory, Shout! Kids and Scream Factory™ brands, are sure to please devoted fans of popular home entertainment properties, collectors and pop culture enthusiasts alike. This year, Shout! Factory unveils an exciting panel event, new home entertainment products, Comic-Con exclusives and engaging booth activities. Fans and attendees are invited to join in on the excitement at the Shout! Factory...
Press Release: "Now a mainstay at San Diego Comic-Con International, Shout! Factory returns to the convention in 2015 with a dynamic line-up sure to delight pop culture enthusiasts of all ages. Shout! Factory is a leading multi-platform entertainment company, and its Comic-Con offerings, which span its popular Shout! Factory, Shout! Kids and Scream Factory™ brands, are sure to please devoted fans of popular home entertainment properties, collectors and pop culture enthusiasts alike. This year, Shout! Factory unveils an exciting panel event, new home entertainment products, Comic-Con exclusives and engaging booth activities. Fans and attendees are invited to join in on the excitement at the Shout! Factory...
- 6/24/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Hold on to your pool chairs: All three of Penelope Spheeris' entertaining, heartbreaking and iconic Decline of Western Civilization documentaries are officially coming to Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in a deluxe box set on June 30th. Shout! Factory will release the four-disc anthology chronicling L.A.'s hardcore punk, hair-metal and gutter-punk phenomena with a 40-page book, extended interviews and a new commentary track by Dave Grohl. Each film has also been given a 2K high-definition restoration, which Spheeris supervised.
"I am so grateful to the fans of these films,...
"I am so grateful to the fans of these films,...
- 3/24/2015
- Rollingstone.com
"Brian Wilson Songwriter 1962 - 1969" will be available on DVD November 23, 2010, showcasing Wilson's songs throughout the '1960's..."while investigating the rich tapestry of music written and produced by this brilliant 20th century composer."
The songs Wilson wrote/recorded with The Beach Boys during the 1960's plays over three hours across two discs, including contributions from fellow Beach Boys, Bruce Johnston, David Marks; Wrecking Crew musicians Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine; Beach Boys manager Fred Vail; producers Russ Titelman, Bill Halverson; Wilson family friends Billy Hinsche, Danny Hutton, biographers Peter Ames Carlin, Domenic Priore and a whole lot more.
Also featured are historical musical performances, rare classic recordings, obscure footage, rare archive interviews, seldom seen photographs and live/studio recordings of numerous Brian Wilson classics.
Extras include extended interviews, Special Features 'The End Of An Era - The Beach Boys in 1970' and 'Pet Sounds Preview - John and Paul hear the record'.
The songs Wilson wrote/recorded with The Beach Boys during the 1960's plays over three hours across two discs, including contributions from fellow Beach Boys, Bruce Johnston, David Marks; Wrecking Crew musicians Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine; Beach Boys manager Fred Vail; producers Russ Titelman, Bill Halverson; Wilson family friends Billy Hinsche, Danny Hutton, biographers Peter Ames Carlin, Domenic Priore and a whole lot more.
Also featured are historical musical performances, rare classic recordings, obscure footage, rare archive interviews, seldom seen photographs and live/studio recordings of numerous Brian Wilson classics.
Extras include extended interviews, Special Features 'The End Of An Era - The Beach Boys in 1970' and 'Pet Sounds Preview - John and Paul hear the record'.
- 9/28/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Author & historian Domenic Priore brings his book Riot on the Sunset Strip to Larry Edmunds Bookshop, which invites guests to "take a trip on the strip when it was hip" on Friday March 26th at 7:30 p.m. That’s the bookstore’s third book-signing event in the "Ce-la-brate- Great Things about Los Angeles" series. According to the booktore’s release, the evening will also feature a slideshow of 1960s cool spots, clips from Peter Perry Jr’s 1967 documentary Mondo Mod, set along West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, and the presence of special guest Charles Lange, who appears in the film. Larry Edmunds is located at 6644 Hollywood Boulevard. Phone: (323) 463-3273.
- 3/13/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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