Post by ©KAJAMANIA Board Team (Slim K) on Feb 24, 2004 21:47:11 GMT -5
hi Kajamaniac's ...
here's a part of an article about the VH-1 "Bands Reunited", it's host Aamer Haleem and some thoughts trackin' down band mates around the world for the TV show, with an unforgettable Jez Strode moment ...
"Host Aamer Haleem and the VH-1 show's staff contact former members of the various groups - by bursting in on them unannounced - and try to talk them into meeting their ex-bandmates for a one-night performance that is included in the show.
Haleem said "a lot" of the band members were openly hostile when first contacted. On more then one occasion, the show's producers "would all say to me afterward, 'We thought you were going to get punched. We're surprised you survived that.' "
And that was easy compared to tracking down some of these people. Some of them are still in music, but others are not. People from the four bands already mentioned, as well as Klymaxx, Dramarama, Romeo Void, The Alarm and Squeeze, include an investigator for the D.A.'s office, a computer technician, a security chief, a bulldozer operator, an insurance salesman, and even a llama farmer.
"The toughest was probably Paul Rutherford, with Frankie Goes to Hollywood. . . . We found him in New Zealand, finally, two days before we had to get them together,"
Haleem said, Kajagoogoo drummer Jez Strode "denied knowing anything about Kajagoogoo. He denied even being Jez Strode. ;D
"Some of them just don't want anything to do with their past and would just sort of say no, flat out." Others were eventually convinced, despite lingering personal conflicts.
"Wait till you see that Flock of Seagulls episode," Haleem said. "It's going to be really special because there's a couple of things going on there. There's the Score brothers, Ally and Mike, who hadn't seen each other in four years until we got to them. And their guitarist, Paul Reynolds, who was a teenager when he went on tour with these guys and, unfortunately, fell apart - started drinking a lot, had a nervous breakdown."
o my .....
peace & love
SLIM K
here's a part of an article about the VH-1 "Bands Reunited", it's host Aamer Haleem and some thoughts trackin' down band mates around the world for the TV show, with an unforgettable Jez Strode moment ...
"Host Aamer Haleem and the VH-1 show's staff contact former members of the various groups - by bursting in on them unannounced - and try to talk them into meeting their ex-bandmates for a one-night performance that is included in the show.
Haleem said "a lot" of the band members were openly hostile when first contacted. On more then one occasion, the show's producers "would all say to me afterward, 'We thought you were going to get punched. We're surprised you survived that.' "
And that was easy compared to tracking down some of these people. Some of them are still in music, but others are not. People from the four bands already mentioned, as well as Klymaxx, Dramarama, Romeo Void, The Alarm and Squeeze, include an investigator for the D.A.'s office, a computer technician, a security chief, a bulldozer operator, an insurance salesman, and even a llama farmer.
"The toughest was probably Paul Rutherford, with Frankie Goes to Hollywood. . . . We found him in New Zealand, finally, two days before we had to get them together,"
Haleem said, Kajagoogoo drummer Jez Strode "denied knowing anything about Kajagoogoo. He denied even being Jez Strode. ;D"Some of them just don't want anything to do with their past and would just sort of say no, flat out." Others were eventually convinced, despite lingering personal conflicts.
"Wait till you see that Flock of Seagulls episode," Haleem said. "It's going to be really special because there's a couple of things going on there. There's the Score brothers, Ally and Mike, who hadn't seen each other in four years until we got to them. And their guitarist, Paul Reynolds, who was a teenager when he went on tour with these guys and, unfortunately, fell apart - started drinking a lot, had a nervous breakdown."
o my .....
peace & love
SLIM K
