Andrew Loog Oldham, Greg Shaw, Sam Cooke, John Sinclair, and Peter Grant... Chess, Immediate, Decca, Pye, Stax, Motown, Trojan, Studio 1, Treasure Isle, Raw, Chiswick, Step Forward, Bam Caruso, Norton, and Bomp... Brooklyn Paramount, U.F.O. Club, Fox Theater, 100 Club, Twisted Wheel, The Votex, Roundhouse, Gas Light, Star Club, The Flamingo, Marquee, Max's Kansas City, Apollo Theater, CBGBs, and The Scene... Sniffin' Glue, Who Put The Bomp, Punk, Crawdaddy, Kicks, Creem, The East Village Other, and Sound Views.
Dead Flowers got its start as a music-centered online platform for its writers' passions and obsessions. It was a place to read about the classics reconsidered, the obscure brought into the spotlight, the lost re-found, and the marginal made to matter... Those elements animate the new Dead Flowers, an enterprise devoted to managing, booking, and promoting bands and projects that ignite those same passions.
Who is behind Dead Flowers?
Lee Greenfeld, founder of Dead Flowers, was born in the sightline of the East River and within spitting distance of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. His curiosity about the sights, sites, and sounds of Brooklyn got its hooks in early and never loosed its grip; for all of his life lived so far, he has been a proud resident of the County Of Kings. Some small part of his youth was misspent obsessively taking pokes at others and scrawling curious markings on trains, walls, overpasses, and other public spots, but it wasnt long before his energies found a new focus in the world of music. There was time put in at innumerable city club shows, and endless hours spent listening and absorbing records of every variety: Punk and soul. Reggae and Americana. Folk, psych, and bebop. And on and on. And always the Bob Dylan. Perpetually the Dylan. Subsequently, that energy was refocused into close to ten years of publication of the music journal Sound Views, dedicated to exposing the best and brightest artists of every genre and medium within the environs of New York City. He refocused again, putting out a number of albums and compilations on the Sound Views label. Following the retirement of the magazine/label, Lee served as the de facto educator of the city's punk-oriented youth, acting as buyer for the Soapbox record store, formerly on St. Mark's Place. He then became the co-owner of the inestimable Magnetic Field Rock'N'Roll Cocktail Lounge on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, dividing his attentions between the pouring of drinks and the booking of dozens upon dozens upon several dozens more bands and acts to entertain and edify patrons both loyal and new. Currently, Lee maintains his status as co-owner, acts booker, and now -- refocused and refined once more -- is putting a measure of his energies into management (and promotions) via Dead Flowers, working with bands that have stoked or otherwise touched his ever-smoldering inner enthusiasms.
Who have we worked with?
Archie Bell, The A-Bones, The Above, Antietam, Apothecary Hymns, Armitage Shanks, Babe The Blue Ox, Bamboo Kids, Baskervilles, The Black Hollies, The Blue Beats, Boss Martians, Les Breastfeeders, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, The Brought Low, Candy Snatchers, Greg Cartwright, Chandler And The Chasers, Cinders, The Condo Fucks, Coydogs, The Cynics, The Dansettes, Detachment Kit, Dirty Excuse, Dot Dash Presents, Downbeat 5, Mitch Easter, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves, The Ettes, The Figgs, The Fleshtones, Gabby Glaser, Get Hip Records, The Great Gaylord, The Griefs, Grip Weeds, The Hall Monitors, Hazel Motes, The Hong Kong, Imaginary Icons, The Insomniacs, Johnny Legend, Jonny Chan & The New Dynasty Six, Lenny Kaye, The Little Killers, LiveFastDie, The Lost Crusaders, Lost Sounds, Lyres, Magic Christian, The Master Plan, The Mighty Hannibal, Mighty Fine, Mondo Topless, Muck And The Mires, Nashville Ramblers, The New Lou Reeds, Norton Records, Nouvellas, The Paul Collins Beat, George Pelecanos, The Plimsouls, The Ponys, Prototypes, Rabbit Factory Inc., The Real Kids, Reigning Sound, Vic Ruggiero, Les Sans Culottes, The Shalitas, Shaw Nuff, Some Action, The Fabulous Soul Shakers, The Stabilisers, Stalkers, Swingin' Neckbreakers, Tigershark, Teenage Prayers, The Tough And Lovely, Turpentine Brothers, The Twistaroos, Ugly Beats, Mary Weiss, Alex White, The Woggles, Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3, Young Jessie, and many more!
We're also behind the scenes of the annual Brooklyn Rock'N'Soul Fest (part of the Atlantic Antic street fair), and had the absolute honor to have booked the 'Old School Soul!' concert at the McCarren Park Pool (in-conjunction with our friends at Todd Abramson Presents and JellyNYC). A few of our other prouder moments were booking benefit concerts for victims of the Katrina disaster, Question Mark (of The Mysterians), and the family of Greg Shaw of Bomp! (one of our greatest inspirations).
"Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that everything is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living."
Please let us know if you would ever like an authentic garage band to play at one of your functions. We have done shows with The Fleshtones and The Charms,just to name a few...Johnny Mystery
Join us this coming Saturday 27 June at Dig Deeper for Virginia soul legend Lenis Guess's first NYC show in 20 years, this time backed by the Solid Set! Guest DJs the Scorpio Brothers will be spinning Virginia soul and funk 45s for the dancefloor with us until 4am.
$10 advance will call tickets still available via our myspace page - click the blue "Buy Tickets" button - save money by reserving early...tickets will be $15 at the door if we have not sold out. Look forward to seeing you there!
Join us for the once in a lifetime re-discovery of Chicago soul legend Renaldo Domino this coming Saturday 23 May at Dig Deeper - his very first NYC show EVER, and second anywhere in 39 years, backed by the Sweet Divines and the Divine Soul Rhythm Band!
$10 advance will call tickets are still available via our myspace page - click the blue "Buy Tickets" button - save money by reserving early...tickets will be $15 at the door if we have not sold out. Look forward to seeing you there!
Interviews with King Khan, The Spits, Pierced Arrows, The Dead Moon Story, Skip Jensen, Ratas del Vaticano, Chuck Violence, B-Lines, Rupert Bottenberg, CM Ruiz, The Speaking Tongues, plus an article on Stef Petticoat and a tribute to the late Cramps frontman Lux Interior. Also: Gary Pig Gold, Kirsten Easthope, an exclusive introduction by Bobby Beaton, reviews, more!
UPCOMING DATES: July 10 & 11 th 2009 --- Boiler’s 6th Anniversary! September 12th 2009 November 14th 2009
At JAZZ ROOM Calle Vallmajor nº 33 – Plaza d’Adria (Barcelona) FFCC: Muntaner 23:30 – 05:00 h. Admission: 10 euros (including minimum drink) For more info email us at: theboilerclub@yahoo.es Yahoo Egroup: http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/THE_BOILER/
GUEST DJs: MARTIN LAWRIE (UK) CAPTAIN VICS (GER) JULIO “APOLO XII” (Madrid)
Hey thanks for adding us and your support, hope you like our songs. If you could tell your friends about us that would be great....any venue help would be appreciated hopefully see you over there in August :) ...oh..... and keep in touch ! David
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