Friday afternoon at the Sunset Marquis in LA. My friend Jen is showing me the ‘Hollywood Bubble’ pool scene – the hotel is known for celeb spotting, Kevin Costner etc .. babes in bikinis with older Hollywood guys with large bank accounts, everyone is in the biz, music producers, writers, actors,
We are there to meet Corey Parks, the 6ft 3 bassist from Nashville Pussy, who can eat fire and hangs with Hollywood rock royalty, sons and daughter of the stars, Lemmy from MotorHead, Rod Stuart and the like. She is early, sitting on a yellow banquet by the pool – the first thing you see is her rock n rollness – tight jeans, beat up silver ankle boots, black cowboy hat, ripped up T shirt, tattoos and a lot of jewelry. She stands up to shake our hands and she is very tall – like a basketball player – her brother Cherokee Parks was in the NBA. She is bewitching and I am compelled to take her photo.
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I’ve been working with jazz singer and musician Jose James for the past year.He’s been busy: playing with a 100 piece classical orchestra in Amsterdam, producing the trumpet player Takuya’s album, and writing and recording his new album – all while touring the world with his band.
I first became aware of graffiti in London in 1982 – taking photos of the first hip hop tour to come to Europe for Melody Maker I met Futura and Dondi White who tagged the dumpster outside the hotel for my photo (see above), or maybe just because that was what they did. Earlier that month I had photographed American rapper J Walter Negro painting a mural of New York trains for the Christmas cover of the magazine. I loved this new art
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