Even if you don’t know Don Fleming by name, chances are you own a ton of records he’s helped make. As a producer, he’s collaborated with the likes of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub, Screaming Trees, the Posies and Hole, to name just a handful. He works for the Alan Lomax Archive and has done archival work for the estates of Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey and others. He’s fronted such groups as the Velvet Monkeys, B.A.L.L. and Gumball and was a member of the band that provided the music to 1994 Beatles biopic Backbeat. Fleming also runs the Instant Mayhem label, which recently reissued the Velvet Monkeys’ 1982 debut Everything Is Right and is about to release the solo Don Fleming 4, which features Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz and R. Stevie Moore. If all that weren’t enough, Fleming is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Fleming: Roman Polanski directed and starred in The Tenant, a masterpiece of paranoid celluloid. His character’s mental state unravels after moving into a French apartment in which the previous tenant has thrown herself out the window. Shelley Winters plays the concierge, and it has a great soundtrack by French composer Philippe Sarde. The Tenant was the last film of a trilogy of “apartment films” that included Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhIMbdecEU
