I love to travel all over the country and the world, movies (mostly documentaries these days), books and music. Hiking and walking, museums on rainy days, political and social conversations with my friend Zack Bazzi. We agree on most everything but it is still fun to argue like there is no tomorrow.
Music
Jackson Browne, Dropkick Murphys, John Prine, Billy Bragg, Beatles, Stones, Mark Knopfler, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Cat Stevens, Roseanne Cash, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Marvin Gaye, Queen Latifah, Lucinda Williams, The Faces, Mott the Hoople, Nils Lofgren, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Movies
The Ninth Configuration, The Fisher King, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Reflections In A Golden Eye, The War Tapes, Pink Floyd's The Wall, The Sum of Us
Television
Trying to detox from broadcast TV...sometime successful, sometimes not...
Books
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Reflections In A Golden Eye, by Carson McCullers; Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane (the Ninth Configuration) by William Friedkin
Heroes
nada, not in a while now but I have great admiration for our folks in the military and the NYPD & FDNY. Anyone who puts their lives on the line for low pay and little glory deserves everyone's respect.
Producer/director: 200 Cadillacs - 2004 PBS/TBS; Co-Producer: Good Rockin' Tonight: 2001 American Masters/PBS; Producer/Writer/Director: Return of the Blue Moon Boys: 2006
Kent State w/Ellen Barkin/NBC TV 1980; The Age of Innocence (dir. Martin Scorsese) w/Winona Ryder, Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Phieffer; 1990;Last Dance w/Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow/Paramount 1994; Law & Order SVU w/ Robin Williams, 2008; 2 indie films
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Dan4456 Didn't I just do this or was that Facebook? Heading down to the parade to film the tired people at the end to go along with my montage of 'end of parade" themes view more
About me: I began life in Alabama, (the part that wears shoes), and my career playing bass & guitar in touring bands in the 1970s. A chance meeting with singer/songwriter Marshall Crenshaw and producer Mitch Easter led to tour managing, concert promotion, independent label ownership and personal management in the '80s, a Nashville Music Award, produced a Grammy nominated CD in the '90s and a 2004 recognition into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
From 1992-97, I produced recordings for guitar pioneers Sonny Burgess and Paul Burlison as well as developing new artists for Boston-based label, Rounder Records. I organized and guided the production of All the King's Men, the 1998 Grammy-nominated recording of new material by Scotty Moore & D.J. Fontana, Elvis Presley’s original guitarist and drummer, performing with Keith Richards, The Band, Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Cheap Trick and others. As artist/sponsor liaison, I toured with the Rolling Stones on their 1997-98 Bridges To Babylon, & 2002 Forty Licks US and Canadian events as well as Elton John's 1998 Big Picture dates and Jewel’s 1999, Spirit tour.
I worked in 2000-01 as an associate producer on Good Rockin’ Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records for the PBS series American Masters. In October 2001, I executive produced two concerts featuring Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Dennis Miller, Kevin Smith and others for the benefit of families of World Trade Center victims and World Hunger Year. January 2004 saw the release of 200 Cadillacs, a documentary I produced with the great singer-songwriter Rex Fowler, (of Aztec Two Step, idea man and chief researcher for the film), and Susan Graham about the gifts given to friends and strangers by Elvis Presley.
In 2006, Chicago Review Press (US) Gargoyle Press (Europe/Asia) published The Blue Moon Boys-The Story of Elvis Presley's Band I co-authored with music critic, Ken Burke. Over the past 12 years I have been assembling the documentary, The Return of the Blue Moon Boys and a biography of the author Carson McCullers, hopefully, both will see the light of day on DVD and broadcast by the end of the decade. In the McCullers film, I have the last interview with Arthur Miller as well as great extended comments from the late Horton Foote and David Diamond. I am working on a second book detailing the many lives and stories I have encountered while researching and working in the world of Carson McCullers and Elvis Presley, two people I have never met but I owe a huge amount of gratitude.
I am hoping to organize two great events for the Fall of this year: a music and reading tribute to Carson McCullers to benefit World Hunger Year and a concert reunion by a great band from the 80s and 90s to benefit Coalition For the Homeless.
Who I'd like to meet: Carson & Reeves McCullers, John Lennon, Lee Harvey Oswald, Officer J. D. Tippit, Jesus Christ, Buddah, Montgomery Clift, Harry Houdini, Judge Crater. I think I have met all of the living people I want to meet.
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Thanks a lot for your add, and for your time! I’m proud to know that you’re part of my audience. I wish you all the best. ...Richard Koechli
... let me offer you a present: On my site http://www. myspace. com/richardkoechli you can download for free my pretty instrumental-tune FOR YOU (2002, unpublished!) - just click on the “TOGETHER WE CAN!”-photo :-)
Hey dan, I put my new song up tonight, I've also emailed it to you. Let me know what you think!! Sorry that we keep playing tag as well. Hopefully I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Thanks Dan, I'm glad you like the new/new version haha. Hope to hear from you soon, I was leaving the gym right when you called before so I apologize for acting rushed.
Hey Dan, Come check out samples from Ted Painter & the South County Bands debut CD, "Ridin' High". You can listen to one full song and 30 second samples of the rest.
Additionally, check out the companion video, Ridin’ High. This is a concept video complete with skydiving, white water rafting, road tripping, Mexico, and of course Ted Painter & the South County Band. Guaranteed to be the most fun you can have in 3 minutes! Just scroll down our page a bit to find the video or follow the link above.
Hi Dan, Thanks once again, and I will most definitely give you a call here sometime in the very near future. That sounds like my kind of crowd!!! Thanks again! -Paul
Hi Dan, thanks so much for the kind words, and the friendship. I'm sincerely glad that you enjoyed my music, as it comes from a very special place in my heart. Hope you keep in touch, and check back for updates on my profile when/if you get a chance!! thanks!!! -Paul
hey dan how have you been? i hope youre healthy and well. my band "and you and i" has been doing very well and in april we're opening for kanye west. i just wanted to know if you had any advice for us before we opened for a huge named act. by the way the other day i was in a library and i was looking through thier country music section and the only book they had on elvis was the book you wrote about him that you gave me a copy of. it was pretty cool to know that i knew the author. take it easy man, luke
