[George's Pro Sound Company]

Just hit the wires
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/phil_spector

George

[Eeyore]

Soundhaspriority wrote:

"George's Pro Sound Company" wrote

Just hit the wires
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/phil_spector

How do people reconcile his life and his art? What do you think?

Anyone got a clue what really happened ? I heard somewhere he'd get
really out of his face on booze. It's not like the story was BIG news in
the UK.

Graham

[Mr Soul]

How do *people reconcile his life and his art? *What do you think?
That's easy. I expect artists/musicians to be screwed up (that's what
helps them create in the first place), so this doesn't surprise me
about Spector at all. It's my understanding he has a history of
fooling around with guns and problems with women.

Mike

[[email protected]]

It was not an interesting trial to follow. Since the weapons charges
were basically uncontestable they worked on making the victim the
guilty party. Here's a typical quote (from the AP):

"It's very difficult to put a gun in somebody's mouth," he said.
"Every single fact says this is a self-inflicted gunshot wound,"
Weinberg argued. "How do you ignore it? How do you say this could have
been a homicide?""

Lawyers stating non-fact garbage as fact. I understand our system
guarentees a defense for all, but this isn't what our founding fathers
had in mind.

Put his lawyers away too.

[WillStG]

On Apr 14, 8:12 am, "Soundhaspriority" wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote in message

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Soundhaspriority wrote:

"George's Pro Sound Company" wrote

Just hit the wires
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/phil_spector

How do people reconcile his life and his art? What do you think?

Anyone got a clue what really happened ? I heard somewhere he'd get
really out of his face on booze. It's not like the story was BIG news in
the UK.

Graham

There were no eyewitnesses. Under both the U.K. and U.S. systems of law, a
conviction for murder is possible with only circumstantial evidence.

Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511

At his trial, 5 women testified that Phil had stuck guns in their
face and threatened to shoot them when they wanted to leave. When I
was a Tape Op, other studios would call us and warn us Phil was off
the rails, he had just thrown a chair thru their glass, destroyed a
TV.... They figured we didn't have the history to know about him, it
was a courtesy.

Safe to say drugs eat your brain and can cause permanent
disorders. I'm not saying Phil did it, I haven't looked at the
physical evidence, bloodsplatter, gunshot residue etc. But I can say
for a lot of people it wasn't surprising, seemed like a train crash
was inevitable.

Heard a few stories from the Veterans about in the old days, guys
shooting off guns in the studio for "fun". Nice soundproof
environment after all - the problems would happen when they continued
having "fun" on the street.

Will Miho
NY TV/Audio Post/Music/Live Sound Guy
"The large print taketh and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

[Richard Crowley]

"Soundhaspriority" wrote ...
"George's Pro Sound Company" wrote ...
Just hit the wires
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/phil_spector

George
How do people reconcile his life and his art? What do you think?

Phil who?

[Gerry]

On 2009-04-14 09:07:57 -0700, Mr Soul said:

How do Â*people reconcile his life and his art? Â*What do you think?

He's a broken human, somewhere in his soul, brain, heart, psyche.
Thinking of the work he did, some of it was innovative, some of it
quite good. What's to reconcile? You can save a chihld from drowning
and then go home and shoot your wife. They aren't related.

That's easy. I expect artists/musicians to be screwed up (that's what
helps them create in the first place),

Say, that WAS easy! I've always wondered how musicians create.


...so this doesn't surprise me
about Spector at all. It's my understanding he has a history of
fooling around with guns and problems with women.

From my understanding, he as always been "disturbed".
--
Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.