Late
this past summer, I started seriously considering putting together
a video documentary on a subject very near and dear to many of us:
the music scene in Baltimore in the 1960s.
After pushing the idea around a little, I enlisted the help of Baltimore
music historian and writer Joe Vaccarino, and videographer Terry Williams.
Since November, the three of us have shot 8 hours worth of interviews
and performance in High Definition video - Tommy Vann, Milt Dugger
and Ronnie Dove most recently - and won't stop until we can put together
the story of what it was we all did musically - and otherwise - growing
up here in pre-Beatles Baltimore.
"Fabulous" is about the
only word I can use to describe what we've gotten so far with the
interviews...but there is a very long way to go, and many more of
you to interview. To make this thing really fly as a video, we desperately
need to include whatever existing home movies any of you may have
or know about...home movies that somehow relate to music in Baltimore
in the '60s. If you have or know of any movies, of any
format, taken in or around Baltimore in the '50s-'60s that depict
anything having to do with the people or the places where Rock n'
Roll, R & B or Pop music were created or enjoyed, please contact
me. I'm talking personal home movies that might include
footage taken at a school dance, or a teen center, or a band rehearsal...even
general family home movies that depict the times; even childhood
shots of someone who went on to eventually make a contribution to
music - great or small - in Baltimore in the '60s. If you have
it, I want to take a look at it.
Please
give me a call at 410 258-1401, or drop me an email
at soundriven@aol.com.
Thanks,
dB
