Jobriath

'Street Corner Love' is awesome for the line "love me like we never met".

listening to this for the first time way late, i'm reminded more of bobby conn than jagger or bowie (or morissey)

hm. this jobriath disc just appeared on emusic.

i have the same question as abbott: worth downloading?

Yes. There are a couple of duds but otherwise it's a good album. 'Rock of Ages' in particular, er, rocks, and it's lyrics are genuinely and intentionally funny as well.

I actually found a CD of "Creatures of the Street" at the local library, and I checked it out, but I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

So, I just finished listening to "Creatures of the Street," and it is totally decent. I think it is benefiting from low expectations but I cld foresee playing this at 2 or 3 more times in the next month.

Not really what I was hoping for when I bought the comp (I wanted something sounding more like Mick Ronson's Only After Dark), but he had more than a couple of good songs - stuff like World Without End and I'maman is good.

Can't wait to see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=306ZNNuW4Kg

It's playing in town in a couple of weeks. I hope my schedule will let me see the one showing.

oh yes oh yes oh yes

xpost does "in town" mean nyc i hope?

http://jobriaththemovie.com/screenings/

Tomorrow in NYC & Houston, Monday in Austin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5kMO-xs_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5kMO-xs_M

I guess there is a Jobriath thread.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/jobriath_documentary_on_glam_rock

So anyway, watched that documentary tonight -- pretty good, definitely a little idiosyncratic around the corners (narration only suddenly starts about twenty minutes in, and then it turned out to be Rollins) --
but I'm actually pretty impressed that so many people who knew him, not just from the failed fame launch period but from the Hair days -- and in some cases before! -- were still alive and happy to share all kinds of stories. (Plus a number of people involved with the Pidgeon album too.) You definitely get a sense that he was ultimately self-contained -- it's like he had many friends and compatriots but I couldn't say for sure any of them, one or two aside, were truly close. Fun to see Gloria Jones and Eddie Kramer pop up multiple times among others. And definitely a sad story in terms of how his father acted immediately after his death.

Definitely the oddest element of it all was how his Tony DiFries (or rather Colonel Tom Parker) equivalent, Jerry Brandt, got what Kate and I felt was more than his share of deserved screen time. Certainly his managerial scheming and plots were a huge part of the whole story beyond the music, but there were a couple of times where I was wondering if it was Jobriath's story or his, especially with a very strange extended sequence towards the end. I almost half wondered if the whole idea was that they had to include a certain amount of him in order to get the film even made, if he still maintains some rights to the songs.

just heard "Time Sat on My Face" on wfmu... this guy's new to me!

https://www.highsnobiety.com/2017/04/25/jobriath-gay-rock-icon/