Nachtrag zu Selwyn Lissack:
In 1971, holographic artist Selwyn Lissack called Salvador Dalí to see if he was interested in making holograms together. Dalí immediately said yes. “I’ve been waiting for you to call,” said Dalí, who had never heard of Lissack. But he had heard of holograms. And when Lissack mentioned that magic word, Dalí had something new: a way to express his work in three dimensions.
https://cubanfinearts.org/Salvador-Dalí-•-Selwyn-Lissack.html
Hier erwähnt der Bassist Steve York (sagt mir nichts, spielte u.a. mit Manfred Mann, der Prog Rock Band East of Eden, Graham Bond) die Connection auch – Lissack gehörte mal zur gleichen Band wie er:
What can you tell us about the formation of Giant Marrowfat.
I was in this band before I went to Turkey. This was a jazzy blues band that had some strong players. The singer was Simon Lait. He later went on to acquire the rights to the song “Mickey” which he produced for Toni Basil (more here). It was a huge hit! The drummer Selwyn Lissack was a fine jazz drummer. He moved to New York and started collaborating with Salvador Dali making holograms. When I played in NYC with Chris Jagger in 1974 Selwyn sent Dali’s limo to ferry us to the gig each night. Dali paid the driver by doing sketches on the limo’s upholstery which the driver would sell! Lol Coxhill was a brilliant musician. The name came from a can of giant marrowfat peas in Lol’s kitchen. We did a number of gigs and were finally offered an opening slot at the Marquee, which was a huge break at the time. Bob Weston refused point blank to do it. I think he did not want to be associated with jazzers! That was the end of the band.
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Friends saying goodbye to Ian who had to leave Cape Town in February 1967: Left to Right – top: Harold Schlensog; Peter Buchanan; Paddy Ewer; Margaret Schlensog; Selwyn Lissack; Ian Huntley; Willie Nete; Themba Matola; Martin Ngijima (with pipe); Front: left to right: Roger Khoza; Howard Sassman; Chris Schilder; Winston Mankunku Ngozi.
Vom Electric Jive-Blog, wo in dem betreffenden Post die Geschichte des Photographen Ian Bruce Huntley erzählt wird, von dem dann auch ein tolles Fotobuch veröffentlicht wurde (man kann es wohl noch bestellen, aber auch kostenlos als Review-PDF herunterladen, Link im Link):
https://electricjive.blogspot.com/2012/05/love-for-free-hidden-south-african-jazz.html
Die bekanntesten Leute auf dem Foto sind die zwei, die vorne rechts sitzen: Ibrahim Khalil Shihab (Chris Schilder) und Winston Mankunku Ngozi.
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