Those hands! There is a handwritten description on back of photo.
old guys
07/29/09
Samuel P. Deardorff
07/17/09
Dream Boat
Great tenors don’t go on diets: they know great tailors! According to his dossier, Beniamino Gigli was a tailor’s apprentice when he was 10.
This entry continues my series of images of old guys that inpsire me.
03/20/09
Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue
This is the first in a series of posts of old men that inspire me. I’ve always felt the tug of inspiration between eccentric old men of olde and youth subculture of olde. Youth subculture gets enough coverage. I’d like to recognize those old eccentrics.
Above is deejay Tom Donahue wearing Linda Bacon’s fabulous embroidery on his jeans. Tom is wearing shoes designed by Mickey McGowan, The Apple Cobbler. McGowan will be featured in a future post on old eccentrics. Linda Bacon also deserves some attention but I’ll save her for a series on artists I dig. The photo is from the book Native Funk & Flash.
Donahue mediates precisely my conflict of inspirations. One of the few disk jockeys to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, he’s known as the godfather of progressive radio. Donahue played cuts off records that were not released as singles. This style of airplay became known as album-oriented rock (AOR). I owe my patchwork musical taste to listening to Tucson’s AOR station with my brother when we were kids.
-tgh