Rudolph Grey is a musician and the biographer of filmmaker Ed Wood.[1]
As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars,[2] under his own name, as well as leading various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans.[3] His music draws on no wave and free jazz.
Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful cult films. Tim Burton's film Ed Wood was based on Grey's book.
In 2001, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, Necromania, which had been presumed to be lost, in a Los Angeles warehouse.[4]
In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called Dad Made Dirty Movies, about the life and career of 1960s porn film producer Stephen Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with filmmaker Ed Wood.[5]
Discography
Mars
| Date | Album | Notes | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 (Recorded 1978) | Live at Irving Plaza | Featured musician on the track "Nn End"[6] | Feeding Tube/Negative Glam |
Rudolph Grey
| Date | Album | Notes | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Mask of Light | - | New Alliance |
| 1994 | Transfixed | - | New Alliance |
Blue Humans
| Date | Album | Notes | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Clear to Higher Time | Studio recording 1991, produced by Thurston Moore | New Alliance |
| 1993 | To Higher Time | Live CBGB's 1990 | New Alliance |
| 1995 | Incandescence | CBGB's opening for Sonic Youth | Shock |
| 1995 | Live NY 1980 | With Beaver Harris and Arthur Doyle | Audible Hiss |
| 1996 | Live in London 1994 | With Charles Gayle and Tom Surgal | Blast First |
Red Transistor
| Date | Album | Notes | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Not Bite/We're Not Crazy | 7" single recorded 1977, Red Star Records | Ecstatic Peace! |
Recordings of sessions led by others
| Date | Artists | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Arthur Doyle | Live at the Cooler | The Lotus Sound |
Bibliography
Published works include:
- 1992: Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8 – Biography of Ed Wood
References
- ↑ Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., 1992, Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8
- ↑ Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, pp. 42-46
- ↑ The Blue Humans bio in Allmusic.com
- ↑ New Yorker: Weird Love
- ↑ , Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.
- ↑ "Live at Irving Plaza - Mars | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
External links
- Rudolph Grey at AllMusic
- Rudolph Grey at IMDb