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Originally we had planned to do a documentary about Frank's life and work because we have so much footage and so many photographs. But we did not want to do a "normal" talking head style documentary. We realized that Frank had already written a biography of sorts in his book, "Art of a Shaman" so we decided to try to use that as the "script" for the video. We decided to see if we could get people who were important to Frank and had played a part in his life to each read a chapter of the book. After drafting the email and sending it out we were blown away at the immediate response and the project took off. We assigned chapters to readers using the random principle ... as Frank loved to do ... pulling a piece of paper with a chapter number written on it from a bag as we read a person's name.
Once we had all of the recordings of the readings and added up the time, the documentary was going to be at least 3 hours long ... and it was going to take a really long time to put together. We then had a eureka on a walk one day.... we could put each chapter out on the web as we create them ... as episodes! Several musicians are now creating "background music" for each episode.
Way back at the beginning, when we first had the thought of even doing a documentary about Frank, we asked Vinnie Spit Santino if he would write a song for it, without any idea how we would use it ... or what we were even doing with the documentary. Vinnie wrote the amazing "Let Me Be Frank" that will be the opening song for each episode ... and the title of the series!
"Art of A Shaman" Chapter 3 text: http://eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham3.html
Watch more episodes at http://frankadelic.com
Reading by:
Michael LaBash
MUSIC
(in order of appearance)
Opening music:
Piano by Frank Moore.
An excerpt from a live performance,
"Sing Along, Jam Along, Play Along, Dance Along,
Rub Along, Move Along with Frank Moore"
for Leslie Baker's Salon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada via Skype.
Recorded March 10, 2012.
“Let Me Be Frank” (the song)
written, arranged, performed and produced by Vinnie Spit Santino
recorded, mixed and mastered at Vinali Creative Group, Van Nuys, CA by Vinnie Spit Santino
Vinnie Spit Santino - lead vocals, all guitars, bass
Frank Moore - vocals on bridge
Rebecca Kyler Downs - backing vocals and all harmonies
Gary Ponder - drums
Drake Peterson - trumpet
Tony Rinaldi - trombone
Chapter title animation music:
by Michael LaBash
Background music:
by Sander Roscoe Wolff
How Mikee Met Frank:
“Day of The Tomorrow Men”
written and arranged and produced by Vinnie Spit Santino
from the album, “At War With Nature”
Reader bio:
Excerpt from “Water Music III”
by Michael LaBash
Closing credits music:
“Mad Funk Jam at Frank Moore’s House"
written by Jerome T. Youngman
performed by Mutant Press
500 Pound Weasel Records
“To Be Free”
written and performed by Tha Archivez
Longhorn Entertainment
PHOTOS:
Jim Appleton
Les Barany
Ken Jennings
Steve Jennings
Tracy Kauffman-Wood
Eric Kroll
Michael LaBash
Daniel Lorenze
Linda Mac
Alexi Malenky
Diana Meyer
Debbie Moore
Colleen Neff
Dave Patrick
Kevin Rice
Annie Sprinkle
David Steinberg
Mary Sullivan
ILLUSTRATIONS:
David Hochbaum
Lee Kay
Michael LaBash
Frank Moore
Justin Page
John Seabury
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE:
Dave Swan’s Dog House
Betty Boop: “Minnie The Moocher” by Max Fleischer [Public Domain]
Betty Boop: “I Heared” by Max Fleischer [Public Domain]
Three Stooges: “Disorder In The Court” [Public Domain]
One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963) [Public Domain]
First Year Anniversary of the Berlin Wall (1962) [Public Domain]
One World or None (1946) [Public Domain]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) directed by Robert Wiene [Public Domain]
The Night Of The Living Dead (1968) by George A. Romero [Public Domain]
Editing, Animation, and Title Design:
Michael LaBash
Produced by
Linda Mac & Michael LaBash
Directed by
Frank Moore
Thanks to all of the readers so far ...
Tha Archivez
Kenneth Atchley
Attaboy
Dr. Susan Block
Paul Couillard
Steve Davis
Stephen Emanuel
Paul Escriva
Barbara Golden
Fred Hatt
John the Baker
Dr. Richard Kerbavaz
Michael LaBash
Lob
Kirk Lumpkin
Linda Mac
Alexi Malenky
Jake McGee
Kayla Moon
Corey Nicholl
Carl Off
Vinnie Spit Santino
Erika Shaver-Nelson
Russell Shuttleworth
Linda Carmella Sibio
Gerald Smith
Megan Soriano
Annie Sprinkle
David Steinberg
Veronica Vera
Martha Wilson
And thanks to all of the musicians who have created music for this project so far …
K. Atchley
Stephen Emanuel
Barbara Golden
Phog Masheeen
Vinnie Spit Santino
Sander Roscoe Wolff
Thanks to the crew at Coffee Conscious for keeping us going!
Thanks to Vinnie Spit Santino for the title!
See other episodes at http://frankadelic.com
