Phil Spector is dead (1 Viewer)

[El Caliente]

His impact on musical history is as undeniable as his impact on the wig industry.

 

[Rickboy]

His impact on musical history is as undeniable as his impact on the wig industry.

I agree, it is undeniable.

Too bad he also turned out to be a complete piece of garbage.

 

[Saintman2884]

I agree, it is undeniable.

Too bad he also turned out to be a complete piece of garbage.

There were glaring, undeniable signs for years that Spector had some unhinged, perhaps undiagnosed mental or behavioral issues. Some of his behaviors I've read about strike me as a bit manic or bipolar disorders, especially the cyclical periods of manic then serious moody depressive traits. He once pointed a gun inexplicably as sort of a joke in front of John Lennon and Yoko Ono while the two were rehearsing before recoding some of their solo material in IIRC, the Record Plant studios. He had a bad tendency to fire live guns into ceiling while musicians were in the actual recording areas to make them hurry up their tunings so they could record faster.

His dislike of Ike Turner(entirely justified, IMHO, due to his notoriously terrible treatment of wife Tina, their children and his cocaine abuse) was so acute that he only agreed to record "River Deep, Mountain High" on the condition that Ike Turner had to stay out of the studio to avoid his oppressive, controlling behavior in the studio and onstage.

Most of the musicians he worked with, assistants like Sonny Bono, songwriters, famous rock bands even the Beatles had some memorable, sometimes funny, but more often uncomfortable memories of working with or just being in his presence, around him. John Lennon, despite his public no holds barred early 70's left-wing bravado rhetoric and Marxist intellectual pose, was genuinely afraid and terrified of being in the same room as Spector, reportedly.

 

[Brad Mojo]

Couldn't have happened to a bigger A-hole.

 

[soupcan dan]

i don't think it even bothered him

 

[Madmarsha]

Best news I've heard all day. He should not have lived 18 more years when poor Lana died at 40.

 

[tomwaits]

I loved the part in the Ramones documentary End of the Century where Johnny rants about Spector being a short angry man with a bad toupee and a gun.

 

[tomwaits]

5 Artists Reportedly Held at Gunpoint by Phil Spector

Phil Spector was best known for developing a new production style and murdering Lana Clarkson by gunshot wound. Here are five musical artists he also threatened with a gun.

www.mentalfloss.com

 

[whodatbe]

I was listening to Stern today, who were talking about his life, and I didn't realize how big he was in the music industry during his younger years.

 

[Madmarsha]

I was listening to Stern today, who were talking about his life, and I didn't realize how big he was in the music industry during his younger years.

Yeah, he became reclusive in the '80s and '90s and so was largely forgotten. But no music producer was bigger than him in the '60s.

 

[gavinj]

He was great in that episode of I Dream of Jeannie where he played himself. The suit he wore was $$$$.

 

[Madmarsha]

He was great in that episode of I Dream of Jeannie where he played himself. The suit he wore was $$$$.

I was an avid Jeannie watcher in syndication and don't remember this one.

 

[gavinj]

I was an avid Jeannie watcher in syndication and don't remember this one.

season 3, episode 6 “Jeannie, the Hip Hippie”

 

[gavinj]

At the 17:50 mark.

 

[zeetes]

At the 17:50 mark.

i ended up watching the whole episode.