This was an HBO project directed by Jim McKay and produced by my Ft. Greene neighbor, Nelson George.
I count Jim as a friend after working together on this joint.
This is Jim's first film with score. He's a realist in the Cassavettes school and I think he took a big leap in adding me to this crew. I gave him a ton of what we called "seeds" ( little rough audio sketches ) to check out as he worked on the script. ( A rare & beautiful thing to be hired so early in the process ) A lot of these "seeds", with some tweaks, tuning and spittle, ended up in the final cut. This is not one of them.
And, another bit of useless trivia - I just found an old Playboy magazine in the garage ( with Donald Trump on the cover ) where Nelson quotes me in an article that he wrote about racism in rock. I have no idea why something as ridiculous and obvious as racism in R&R would be discussed in Pboy or any recollection of giving NG the quote. But, here it is and ten years later I would move to his neighborhood and he'd hire me to do this:
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