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DOMENIC PRIORE 'neath the
Hollywood sign, 'splains things from atop the Capitol Tower
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DOMENIC PRIORE — Founder, Co-Editor
Los Angeles native Domenic Priore has twenty years of experience in TV/film production. While in college, he began his career by producing his own public
access TV show, It’s Happening, a tribute to 1960s dance shows like Shindig!, Ready Steady Go, Hollywood a Go Go, and Hullabaloo. He has worked as a writer/producer for Paramount Television, and has served as a source, fact checker, commentator, writer and/or director for several subsequent projects (including Rock ’n’ Roll for PBS in 1995). Currently, he and producing partner David Wilson (Miramax) are developing a long-form documentary about
Hollywood’s Sunset Strip music scene of the mid-'60s. He is the author of Beatsville (Outre Gallery Press), Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece (Sanctuary Publishing) and the forthcoming Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood 1965/1966. Domenic is now collaborating with Gene Aguilera (manager of Thee Midniters' singer Little Willie G.) on The Golden Age of Chicano Rock 'n' Roll: An East L.A. Visual History for Angel City Press. He was the primary writer on the AMC documentaries Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (hosted by Ringo Starr) and Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (hosted by David Bowie).
"If you're a sucker for a good 'comeback story,' Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece is a fine treat, indeed. Priore's well-researched, engaging telling of the trials and tribulations (as well as the general nastiness of Mike Love) endured by Wilson over the years, ending at last in triumph,
makes for a moving read." — Todd Lavoie, Booksmith, San Francisco
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BRIAN CHIDESTER (right) with producer JOE SARACENO
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BRIAN CHIDESTER — Publisher, Co-Editor
Brian Chidester is a copy editor for Yahoo.com, an author and documentary filmmaker. In 2003, he co-produced/directed
a documentary about Beach Boys guitarist, Carl Wilson, for the Carl Wilson Foundation Cancer Benefit. Chidester was the
research archivist (along with Domenic Priore) for LSL Productions' Beautiful Dreamer: The Story of Brian Wilson and Smile
(Showtime Films, Grammy-nominated DVD) and was a featured author in Brian Wilson's 2004 Smile tourbook. Chidester
also authored Wilson's 2005 UK tour programme. In ’05, the BBC premiered The Secret Map of Hollywood, a documentary
made up of nine segments about various 'Hollywood Babylon' subjects, including the Brian Chidester-directed segment
about Nat 'King' Cole’s liturgical road-song, "Nature Boy" (composed by L.A. songwriter, Eden Ahbez). He also directed
Notes from the L.A. Underground: The Pop Art and Design of John Van Hamersveld, an artist-portrait documentary.
Chidester has written historical pieces for Collector's Choice Music, ESQ, the Venice Beach-Head, and other publications. He
is currently finishing a new book titled, The Pop Surf Culture at Its Height, 1961-65 (Santa Monica Press). Brian Chidester
received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, with post-graduate work in Film. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
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CHRIS GREEN
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CHRIS GREEN — Designer
Chris Green is a graphic/packaging designer and art director for Natrol, Inc., a nutritional products company. He also does freelance graphic design and
advertising work. His clients include Mattel, Inc., DirecTV, Inc., Herbalife, Disney Stores, the Los Angeles Conservancy and more. Green is an active member
of the Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Committee (ModCom), a volunteer group formed in 1984 in response to the rapid destruction of a generation of
postwar buildings. The Modern Committee works to educate the public about the native Los Angeles architecture styles of the Modernism era, with a goal of
preserving what is left in the city. Chris Green has provided graphic design for a number of ModCom’s materials, including book designs for the How Modern
Was My Valley tour (2000) and Built by Becket: A Tribute to the Architectural Designs of Welton Becket & Associates (2003). Chris was born in Dallas, Texas in 1967 and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1996 and attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Green lives in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles.
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LISA SUTTON
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LISA SUTTON — Typesetter
Pop culture historian Lisa Sutton is best known for her art direction and package design for CDs and books. Specializing in music on television and teen idols, she is also recognized as an in-demand liner note writer, including the Grammy-nominated Have a Nice Decade boxed set for Rhino Records. Sutton is a regular writer for TV Land Online and served as historian on the forthcoming CBS mini-series The Disco Years (Fall, 2005). In 2003, she served as Segment Producer on the VH1 documentary Bubblegum Babylon, and has worked behind the scenes (as well as in front of the cameras) on a number of other documentary productions over the years.
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MARK MOORE with part of JAN BERRY's original music score for "MULHOLLAND" (CARNIVAL OF SOUND)
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MARK A. MOORE — Writer, Consultant
Mark A. Moore is a writer and historian, and is currently conducting research for the
official biography of Jan Berry (creative and technical force behind Jan & Dean). He is
the author of "'A Righteous Trip': In the Studio with Jan Berry," an abridged and edited
version of which appears in Dumb Angel No. 4. In 2002, Moore served as consulting
historian for the documentary Jan & Dean: The Other Beach Boys, on A&E's Biography.
Moore's article, "Jan Berry 101: A Study in Composition," was published in the summer
2004 issue of ESQ. Moore has written liner notes for the Memorial Edition of Jan Berry's
solo album Second Wave, and served as a consultant and provided images for MOJO's Jan & Dean article in 2005. He also designed songwriter and artist Jill Gibson's official website —
Gibson Artworks. Moore is co-producing a Jan Berry / Jan & Dean tribute album with Cameron
Michael Parkes (Album Preview). Moore holds a degree in History. In
addition to writing reviews and articles, his original maps, plans and drawings have been
published nationally in numerous works of history. He has also published two books
related to the final year of the American Civil War.
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SHAG
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SHAG — Artist, Illustrator
Josh Agle (better known as Shag, a contraction of the last two letters of his first name and first two letters of his last name) is a painter, illustrator, and designer working in Southern California. Shag has been exhibiting his paintings in art galleries since the mid-1990s, and did his first solo gallery shows in 1997, followed by regular solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia. Shag’s art has graced the covers of DVD packages, CDs and records, handbags, skateboards, tiki mugs, glassware, magazines and books around the world (the total amount of projects too numerous to name). He has more recently done artwork for Disneyland’s 50th anniversary and the reissue campaign for the Pink Panther film series. A new play based on his paintings — Shag with a Twist — is now being performed at the Los Angeles Theater Center in Downtown L.A. Shag wrote the article "Vine Street Mondrian" for Dumb Angel No. 4.
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SYD GOTTFRIED
(photo by Nancy Breslow)
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SYD GOTTFRIED — New York Correspondent
Syd Gottfried is a pop culture enthusiast with a love for the 1960s, who aspires to one day become a screenwriter. Syd
grew up in the East Village where she spent a lot of time in her dad's amazing store See Hear, which specialized in
fanzines, magazines and books. She has written a few issues of a retro fanzine called Syd's Scene, which she plans to
distribute much more widely in the future. She is also a part time baby-sitter/monkey watcher, and keeps our New York
stores in stock. Syd is thrilled to be working with Dumb Angel Magazine.
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BECKY EBENKAMP
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BECKY EBENKAMP — Editorial Advisor
Becky Ebenkamp is entertainment editor for Brandweek magazine, where she
serves as a pop cultural anthropologist. A lapsed musician (The Ten Tons of
Lies, on Greg Shaw's Voxx Records, 1986), Becky has contributed to the books
Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth and Lost in the Grooves. Turn-ons: Fondue,
chimps, big-eye paintings, collecting vintage clothes and hoarding records.
Turn-offs: SUVs. Heroes: Joey Ramone and Syd Gottfried (above), who, in response
to an offhand comment about "those awful Hilton Sisters," asked if it was in
reference to the ubercool Siamese-twin carnival act who appeared in the 1932
film Freaks.
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