DOUG MENUEZ 2.0: GO FAST, DON'T CRASH http://dougmenuez.com Commentary, ideas, inspiration and memoir from photographer Doug Menuez. Mon, 07 May 2012 15:01:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Farewell, Dick Clark (from Stockland Martel Blog) http://dougmenuez.com/2012/04/22/farewell-dick-clark-updated-with-commentary-from-photographer-doug-menuez/ http://dougmenuez.com/2012/04/22/farewell-dick-clark-updated-with-commentary-from-photographer-doug-menuez/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:29:29 +0000 Doug Menuez http://dougmenuez.com/?p=1067 Back in 2000, veteran creative director Jeff Griffith asked me to do Dick Clark’s portrait for his Atomic magazine interview. We showed up with my longtime stylist extraordinaire, Juliette Smith, at Mr. Clark’s Santa Monica Boulevard headquarters early one morning and were put in a waiting room so stuffed full of rock & roll  history and memorabilia that we couldn’t speak. Our eyes were bugging out of our heads as we tweaked on one sacred relic after another, the iconography of the religion of rock: an early Chuck Berry guitar; Little Richard’s first 45 rpm of “Long Tall Sally”; signed kit from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, you name it. Plus, original jukeboxes stuffed with old records, posters, letters, clothing—just about everything that Dick Clark could gather to tell the story of American music and his own role in helping launch rock & roll through his seminal show American Bandstand. The collection continued down all the halls and throughout the bunker-like offices…

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