(antiMusic) antiMusic is honored and pleased to welcome Lonn Friend as a contributor. He really needs no introduction to most rock fans from his days as the editor of Rip magazine to his radio program, Headbanger's Ball segment and his recent must read memoir "Life on Planet Rock". Some may not know this but antiMusic columnist Anthony Kuzminski helped Lonn out with "Planet Rock" and when Lonn mentioned he'd like an outlet to share some more of his rock n' roll stories Tony suggested us. We are excited that he agreed. Below is the first part of his first article at antiMusic "Granola Girls". But you can skip ahead and click on the full story link to read it all including Tony's introduction/tribute. Now here is Lonn: Tony K said to write about music. Sometimes I forget that's why I am who I am. So yes this will be about music and not the dropping of names begetting fortune and fame and more often than not shame. This is about gratitude. I was telling Katie the story over dinner post our HAIR experience at the tiny old theater in Hollywood. The revival is on, big time. Forty years later, resurrected on the stage by the new kids on the sociocultural block, the songs remain the same and then some. They let the sunshine in and each one of the packed house was a hippie again. Sara Mann is one of the many tie dyed braless power throated sirens in the production. I met her when she was 21 singing background vocals for Harry Belafonte New Year's Eve 1999. In Vegas. The last performance at the Bally's Showroom before they built Paris and turned the venue into a hallway connecting the two properties.
One point, act two; Sara has the 'great gig in the sky' Pink Floyd wail spotlight. Like Lisa when the Stones launch into the final ride home on "Gimme Shelter." Woman in the throes of vocal orgasm, nothing finer. Gives me chills from the second chakra on up. Anyway, Katie worships Tori Amos and I gently relate my 16-year relationship with the red head faerie seeking ivory diddler. With humility of course, I recall the night we drank in my office at RIP after dinner at the Palm. I extorted her presence because I had the advance cassette of the new Jimmy Page/David Coverdale project. And Tori cut her masturbatory teeth while listening to Led Zeppelin. In the interview Cameron Crowe conducted with me (this an act of love not extortion) for the Album Network tip sheet in 1993, I called Tori 'the other gender Peter Gabriel.' She has not left L.A. on any tour stop since without seeing my smiling face. In recent years, her star has swelled to so supernova bright, face time is not exactly easy to come by. Add to that the evolution of her myth, radio and MTV ignored since inception, she is the epitome of an organic musical miracle. - Read the full article including Tony's intro
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