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Once
in a while here on Lou's News, we like to feature the
heroic achievements of some of Lou's pals out there in artland...
Thanks
to the release of his music CD, "Lucky Dog",
we can now say there's more to great artist and longtime friend
Elwood Smith than meets the eye! All of the thirteen
soulful songs are written by Elwood, and performed beautifully
by Van Morrison guitarist John Platania. Many consider
Platania Morrison's greatest guitarist, going all the way back
to the "Moondance" days, and this solo CD is long
overdue.
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You
can check out "Lucky Dog" and even give it a listen at
either elwoodsmith.com
or johnplatania.com.
Tell 'em Lou sent ya! |
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Way
back in the days of rubber cement and photostat messengers,
Elwood and I managed to move to New York City at about the same
moment, and quickly became friends for the rest of our lives (to
prove it, I'm one of the few people on earth who actually knows
what the "H" in Elwood H. Smith stands for!). Along
the way, we managed to (a) found the rather obscure Punster's
Society
during one slightly less-than-sober night at Walsh's Steak House,
(b) fake our way as The Zipatones through the famous Artists
and Models Ball, and (c) influence one another in more ways than
we can even remember! Here's Elwood's version...
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Irving
Plaza, New York City, 1981 - The Zipatones perform The
Lou Brooks Artsy Fartsy Revue to a packed house for the Artists
and Models Ball. That's me belting out "The Ten Commandments
of Art", while dressed as a family-sized bottle of india ink.
Left to right: back-up vocalists The Zipettes, film animator Bill
Plympton on rhythm guitar, Lou, and Elwood on lead guitar. Hidden
is illustrator Leslie Cabarga on piano, and drummer Skip Johnston,
art director of The National Lampoon. |
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Art
for Lucky Dog and Rodentification © Elwood Smith
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