#ivan kral

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Ivan Kral and Patti Smith by Gary Green

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Recently I had the absolutely wonderful chance to work with the late Ivan Kral's wife, and she shared with me this wonderful footage that he took in 1975 at Avery Fisher Hall. I had no idea it was already up, but if you haven't seen this footage, it's some of the earliest taken of Queen in concert, and shot on 16mm film.

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Ivan and Iggy, 1979 (courtesy of Ivan Kral)

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25th Floor and High on Rebellion by Patti Smith Group from the album Easter

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Ivan Kral † February 2, 2020

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(Johnny J Blair) Just released!

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“CRAZY ABOUT YOU” by: Ivan Kral from: Yozakura Quartet

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David Bowie's period from the middle of the 70's also happened thanks to a set of people that made his sonic transformation possible and … yes, I forgot to mention his cohabitation with Iggy Pop during Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, since Pop benefitted greatly with this, he made some of his best albums then. Pop did struggle after this collaboration, so Bowie appearing on one song from Soldier does seem to be an attempt to capture what they did in Berlin, yet … the tune actually projects Bowie's problems during the 80's somehow. There are some good intentions, yet the entire track feels like two people hoping to understand what made them them by applying the wrong lessons. Still, Bowie didn't give up on his friend, though they never reached the heights of Berlin again.

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Not exactly what I do here usually but it is on my Drive so here it is.

Destroy All Movies!!! - The complete guide to Punks on film.

Get it from my Google drive HERE

Read the Amazon description below

The most dazzlingly insane film reference book of all time, Destroy All Movies!!! is an informative, hilarious and impossibly complete guide to every appearance of a punk (or new waver!) to hit the screen in the 20th Century. This wildly comprehensive release contains A-to-Z coverage of over 1100 feature films from around the world, as well as dozens of exclusive interviews with the cast/creators of crucial titles like Repo Man, Return of the Living Dead, The Decline of Western Civilization and Valley Girl. Also examined are several hundred prime examples of straight-to-VHS slasher trash, Brooklyn skid row masterpieces, Filipino breakdancing fairytales, no-budget apocalyptic epics and movies that shouldn't even have been released, many of which have never been written about. Plus hundreds of eyeball-smashing stills and posters, many in full color! Interviewees include screen veteran punk musicians Richard Hell, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat, Lee Ving of Fear, Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X, Keith Morris of Black Flag and Circle Jerks, Chris D. of The Flesh Eaters, Youth Brigade's Shawn Stern, Sickie Wifebeater of The Mentors, Ivan Kral of the Patti Smith Group and many others. Also featured are conversations with filmmakers Penelope Spheeris (the Decline of Western Civilization documentaries, Suburbia), Mark Lester (Class of 1984), Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl), Alex Cox (Repo Man), Lech Kowalski (D.O.A.), Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School), Amos Poe (The Blank Generation), Susan Seidelman (Smithereens), Slava Tsukerman (Liquid Sky), Alan Sacks (Du-beat-e-o), Eric Mitchell (Underground USA), Brian Trenchard-Smith (Dead End Drive-In), Dave Markey (Desperate Teenage Lovedolls), Bruce LaBruce, and NYC transgressor Nick Zedd. Performers like Mary Woronov, Eddie Deezen, Clint Howard, Jon Gries, P.J. Soles and Dick Rude speak out, plus countless other actors and creators from the frontlines of punk's big-screen explosion. Destroy All Movies!!! nails down decades of insanity with superhuman research, vicious precision and electrically charged stills and images, and is the first and final definitive armchair roadmap to punk and new wave on celluloid. Five years in the making, this pulse-bursting monument to lowbrow cultural obsession is a must for all film fanatics, music maniacs, anti-fashion mutants, '80s nostalgists, sleazoids, cop-killers and spazzmatics!

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Patti Smith and Ivan Kral promoting an album in Italy, 1978

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Michaels remains astonished by the pairing, even today. 'Sparks and Patti Smith on the same bill for a good dozen shows? Fellini couldn't have thought up anything that weird. It was like a grandiose travelling musical oddities tour for a while.' Smith's guitarist Ivan Kral admitted, 'I'm embarrassed to say that I don't remember much about Sparks, except I thought they were original and nice guys.' But Michaels insists, 'there was a lot of friction between the Patti Smith group and us.' Some nights, Sparks weren't even granted a soundcheck before the doors opened, but they retaliated, he recalls proudly, by blowing Smith off stage as often as they could. 'Sometimes they were so intimidated by the response and applause from the audience for us... two or three encores... that they would intentionally wait and wait until the excitement from our show had subsided before they'd dare take the stage. Thirty five or forty minutes some nights. Ha! We sounded up, peppy and supercharged, they sounded dark and broody.

from Sparks No. 1 Songs in Heaven: A Biography by Dave Thompson

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David Bowie with Ivan Kral & Iggy Pop 😘

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Patti Smith interview + live excerpts @ Cirque Royal, Bruxelles, 1976

Gloria (Them/Van Morrison “cover”)

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Let’s Twist Again (Chubby Checker cover)

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Ivan Kral  *May 12, 1948