OCCUPATION: THORN IN SIDE

Kim Fowley died today. You might think of him as a creep. You might be right. His solo output was somewhere between shit and entirely listenable, some would say brilliant. But he was always interesting, a self promoting square peg that found his way into one round hole after another, as often as he avoided them. A songwriter, producer, leech, hitmaker, promoter, manager, advisor, dirty old man, svengali, and an opportunistic music biz miscreant who who spent the better part of his professional life fucking with peoples heads. He was a professional mind fucker. Not the best, but he clocked in every day. It's getting harder and harder to find freaks like that in the music industry these days, particularly those who just don't give a fuck. It's near impossible to name someone who did it longer and more consistently than Fowley did. Creep or not, I admire that.

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Listen:
Kim Fowley - Underground Lady mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Kim Fowley - The Trip mp3 at ATumblr (?)
Kim Fowley - Born To Be Wild mp3 at Cover Me Instrumental
Kim Fowley - Animal mp3 at Still In Rock
Kim Fowley - Caught In the Middle mp3 at Still In Rock
Kim Fowley - California Swamp Dance mp3 at Raven Sings the Blues
Kim Fowley - World 99 mp3 at Flat Disk Network