I have a copy of the record with me…īest-kept secrets of Hollywood! The Holy Mackerel, oh my God, let me see it. I wanted to ask you about your first band, The Holy Mackerel. He’s also co-authoring a book on recovery, and after two decades of quiet productivity, it looks like his second-more serene-turn in the public eye has only just begun.įILM COMMENT’s Margaret Barton-Fumo spoke with Williams, over a healthy breakfast, during his New York visit. Now over 20 years sober with his wit still razor-sharp, Williams is the chairman of ASCAP, is currently working on a stage-musical adaptation of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, and cannot confirm or deny the rock-solid rumor that he has collaborated with masked Frenchmen Daft Punk on their forthcoming album. The Museum of the Moving Image recently honored Williams for his film work and screened Stephen Kessler’s 2011 documentary Paul Williams: Still Alive along with The Muppet Movie (79), Elaine May’s underrated Ishtar (87) and Brian De Palma’s cult rock opera Phantom of the Paradise (74). He gave Kermit the Frog depth with his lyrics for “The Rainbow Connection” and vicariously serenaded a million slow dances with “We’ve Only Just Begun,” originally a jingle he wrote for Crocker National Bank, later covered by The Carpenters and overplayed at American weddings. Behind the scenes he was one of the premier architects of the sound of the Seventies, having written a slew of insta-classics covered by The Carpenters, Three Dog Night, David Bowie, and others. He appeared frequently on Johnny Carson’s couch, guested on game shows and sitcoms and played memorable roles in movies like Smokey and the Bandit (77) and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (73). An independent videographer, aka Traveling Light Studio, he also works with community theater groups for live and screened productions in the San Francisco Bay Area.In the 1970s and 80s songwriter and actor Paul Williams was a ubiquitous pop culture icon. Jobb has performed before sparse audiences as Henri Freud on line and live on the Marsh Studio and Mainstage in San Francisco. Jobb’s widely unread books have been published by Little Brown, William Morrow and Scribners/Sierra Club. In California, he contributed to a wide variety of educational publications and multi-media projects. Jobb has worked as a reporter and photojournalist in Florida and Colorado. We’re choosing to take him at his word, that what’s on his site is intended as satire.”Ī curious fellow who sometimes appears on stage, Jamie Jobb is an obscure Martinez California based writer, home-movie maker and visual storyteller who makes moving pictures with and without cameras. Whether we like the way he does it, or agree with his approach to satire, Kings, a club owned, booked and run, by a crew that’s as diverse as they come, wouldn’t be hosting him, if we really thought he was an anti-Semite, racist, or anything like that. It’s like ‘You think this is upsetting? We have a president who says things just as bad, and worse on a daily basis, and we shrug our shoulders.’ From what I can tell, Biff is very much about peace and love in concert, and that dichotomy, harsh and offensive online, eager to commune in person, is the point-drive people away from the chatrooms, and into communal spaces, to connect in person. However distasteful the material on his website is-and, as a Jew, the Randy Newman song certainly made me queasy-I don’t believe it represents his actual feelings, any more than Lenny Bruce (Rose’s hero), joking about Hitler, represents a cavalier attitude about the Holocaust.Īccording to Biff’s tour manager, and several other people I’ve since talked to, Biff is a beatnik at heart, distrustful of technology, attempting to make a statement, however heavy-handedly, about how complacent we’ve allowed Twitter, the 24 hour news cycle, et al to make us. After checking out the material in question, I followed up with his tour manager, a longtime friend of Rose’s, who explained that Biff approached his web presence as a completely separate, satirical performance art project, an incendiary, over-the-top persona, intended to provoke, in hopes that people would engage with him. We weren’t aware of the nature of his internet presence until last night, when a customer e-mailed the club’s booking account about content on Rose’s website. When contacted for a statement about hosting Rose, Neptunes’ Dan Hirsch offered the following, in full: “Biff Rose was a last-minute booking that came across the club’s radar, a week ago, and was undertaken based on his sixties-era output, which is what he performs in concert. Source for the following, posted October, 2017:
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