From: Ty Burr <tyburr@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: (TV) follow-up to leo (OT)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:12:58 -0500
I always considered Mink/Willie DeVille to be a several-generations-removed
tangent of New York Brill Building/doo-wop pop rather than anything
approaching punk. Hell, he collaborated with Doc Pomus on at least one
album.
I had the weird experience of interviewing him back for a mag in the late
80s, when he had sunk to writing the closing credit tune for the movie "The
Princess Bride" (which to be fair was a good movie, and the guy even got an
Oscar nomination out of it). He was clean (he claimed) and religious (he
claimed), and spent most of the interview talking about angels. Which, now
that I think of it, sounds like half the people in Hollywood.
Ty
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:49 PM, robin dunn wrote:
since leo bridged us far afield, i thought i'd add an
ot post. tho' mine's probably not as interesting.
two bands i was aware of but didn't follow closely in
the late '70's -- mink deville, and the runaways. i
remember them both being associated with cb's and the
punk scene (probably more so mink deville).
more recently i've picked up some of their
recordings...and was amazed at how 1) terrible and 2)
NOT PUNK these bands were.
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