Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

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After 5 or 6 years in the entertainment industry

I imposed some rules

And one of them is: When am signing contract with a new artist

- I have to sit down, take off my glasses,

- Look him in the eye and say:

"You have to listen seriously

This is not a joke."

"If I do my job perfectly,

probably going to kill you".

Shep Gordon has been my manager for 43 years.

If you had not met Shep,

had ended after two or three years.

I trusted Shep, absolutely.

He has the Midas touch.

Shep is the best manager par excellence.

He has been a precursor. And everyone has followed.

Shep Gordon's like Brian Epstein, Marshall McLuhan

and Mr. Magoo had had a son.

I brag all the time about it.

Not only for their successes, which are many-

- But it also is the most honest man I ever met.

Could talk to him forever.

Shep can be compassionate.

It can also be a bastard.

Have the charisma of Elvis

- physicist Steve Reeves,

wit Mark Twain

- And you probably are as well equipped as

Long Dong Silver.

Early on, Shep was like a professional bachelor.

With women in their door while leaving others behind.

Met Shep in the 80s, in Hollywood.

Do not know if you remember Carlos & Charlies...

Hypothetically, not me, say you were pulling cocaine

bathroom-

- And then you threw away in the middle of a fight

Shep was who you had to resort to

to reenter. Purely hypothetical.

Shep and I have smoked marijuana for years

.

We are the canaries in the mine...

As a young man working my way in the industry

- They told me about the show that Shep had developed with Teddy

Pendergrass--

- And how they managed to make way for black artists

breaking the "circuit Chitlin '"

If someone asked me,

who invented the chef-celebrity

- Undoubtedly, Shep Gordon.

A "jubu" is a Jew who is also a Buddhist.

And the Dalai Lama

plays an important role in his life.

When Shep gets angry, which makes

is go and cook for the Dalai Lama.

Am spiritual, I am Aries with an upward penis.

I've met most famous

through Shep Gordon

- That all my friends together.

Before working with Shep, I did Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones

.

The first thing he said was:

"Can you get access to Shep Gordon?"

Everyone knows Shep.

If walls could talk, Sheps

home in Maui will never be silent.

Things correctly ago, most of the time.

Sometimes libido controls.

He does not think necessarily head...

... but in a different part.

Good game, Mulligan.

We've had - away - the legendary relationship.

We have never had a contract.

Think we've never taken the business as seriously as our friendship

.

's Like a good marriage

- They would do anything to protect. They love.

- Shep and I are family.

If something would have happened, my wife and I,

he would have taken our children. And happy.

Family is important. It is where you come from, your story.

It's part of who you are.

The women in his life

have been incredibly beautiful.

- I've always wanted a son.

- As you age...

... I hope that things are equated.

- I love the smell of a baby.

- Do not say you have to get a dog.

- It's the last chance to have my family.

I'd like to see a good lady

- That would give him as much as others

I will be a few years yet,

to stay quiet.

Deebemos remember that this is a man who used to wear a

-

- shirt that read "No

blowj*b, no backstage pass."

Must be from that base.

I graduated from the University of Buffalo.

Were the best days of my life

I was an idealist and social-liberal.

I wanted to save the world.

There were few jobs for sociologists,

and wanted to save some prisoners adolescents.

You can not do anything to help

these petty criminals?

In 1968 I auditioned for the Prison Service

Parole in California.

I left on my white horse to

Jail under Godparents, an hour from LA

Had longish hair at the time,

and the other guards hated hippies.

They sent me to play softball with the guys

.

The guards laughed. It just came to me and started beating

I was the ball.

Understood that nobody wanted me there,

so I left.

Drove to Los Angeles,

and found a vacant motel.

It was a two story motel with pool.

I learned later that it was the "Landmark" of Hollywood.

I checked, I took some acid.

Was what we all did at that time.

There it was, flown like a kite,

loving the world...

... When I heard as if

trying to rape a girl in the pool.

Ran to separate them, and the girl went crazy

and hit me.

Were about to have sex, not fighting.

Had been in Los Angeles only

24 hours and already I had beaten twice.

When lowered in the morning,

heard again the voice of the girl.

She asked me if I was the guy who had hit

yesterday. It was Janis Joplin.

I was introduced to

guy who was sitting next to her. It was Jimi Hendrix.

Jimi Hendrix said: "You Jewish?" - Yes

"Then you should be manager.".

"Whose No problem.?"

"Alice Cooper."

Went to Landmark, we opened the door of his room

was impossible to see through the smoke,

and cigarette was not precisely.

When I could disperse the smoke

- I saw Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison

with Shep on the couch.

The big names in the industry

taxiing with this guy.

They entered,

and went to the bedroom

- I had a lot of

grass in a drawer.

I gave them a lot of grass, and they said:

"You will be our manager."

The motel, Hollywood Landmark,

was where Janis died later.

Was popular among musicians, but those were different times

was not a business.

Era people struggling to survive

doing what they liked

legends were not then.

It was a great group of friends, and we

become a kind of family.

When I started as manager, Alice had to play at a club called Cheetah

.

The Doors headed the cartel,

so there were many people.

Alice was drunk and yelling at people.

Shouted "Nobody likes me"

which is one of their songs.

It was horrible.

"You stink, Alice Cooper!"

He shouted:
"Go home!"

They did. It was empty.

Was a sabotage to the Doors, but I did not care.

No it was taking me seriously.

I was selling drugs to people in the motel.

I had to pretend I was manager if the police

wondered where he got the money.

Jimi told me one day I had a group room

28. "Have cards?"

"Cards?"

"You should have business cards".

"? As the company proposed something lamara Jimi V and

appear the sign of peace, it would be cool".

Went down to reception grabbed a dictionary.

The first word

V we found was "Alive".

My new clients were Pink Floyd.

I was his manager for nine days.

I was really overwhelmed.

I was 22 and was manager of Alice.

Thought I had achieved,

when Alice played the Fillmore.

Bill Graham was the promoter

and marked the trend in the country.

A Alice touched

telonear for Ike and Tina Turner.

Assumed that Alice Cooper was an American folk

.

Did nothing to change his mind.

Alice suddenly appeared with a

jacket made of dead rats.

Bill sent his goons to get Alice

stage and evicted us.

This star introduced the use of mascara for men, big deal.

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