I don’t remember who I went with or any of those types of details. Pinball Wizard written by Pete Townshend English March 7, 1969. I just remember being kinda blown away by the visuals and the music, even if the plot didn’t really make any sense.Īnd I remember being really upset about the “Pinball Wizard” sequence for one reason: it wasn’t Elton John’s band in the scene, but rather The Who. Paintball Wizard written by Tim Hawkins English September 16, 2008. Pinball Prison written by unknown author (s) English Aplyrics. ![]() Elton John in costume for his role as the Pinball Wizard in Ken Russell’s film of The Who’s rock opera album Tommy, 1974. I knew that Elton’s band played on the song because I’d already bought the soundtrack album, so it made no damn sense to 12-year-old Jim that his band wasn’t in the sequence. Limited edition of 50 and 10 Artist’s Proof per size. Like most songs on the Tommy album, 'Pinball Wizard' was written by The Who guitarist, Pete Townshend. Digitally printed signature of the photographer Terry O’Neill and edition number on the bottom front border, and estate-stamped on reverse. Sure, Pete Townshend smashed his guitar and Keith Moon knocked over his drumkit, but it was the wrong band!Īlso: here’s another thing that made no sense: how can both the song and Elton John’s character be called “Pinball Wizard” when he’s singing about Tommy? Was “Pinball Wizard” a title that the best pinball players like “Grand Master” in chess?Ĭan somebody contact Ken Russell and/or Pete Townshend to sort this out? (And no, I don’t care that Ken Russell is dead.) So therefore, the first time I ever saw The Who perform under any circumstances, I was disappointed. Meanwhile, Elton’s version of “Pinball Wizard” is actually pretty great: not only does he show off his mad piano playing skillz with the opening riff and the instrumental break, there are additional lyrics and a nice “I Can’t Explain” rip at the end. And I was the first artist to have a solo exhibition at NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Arts Center).That said, it turned out to be only my second favorite track on the album, as I was utterly mesmerized by the drumming on the crazy-ass instrumental called “Sparks,” which … we will get to “Sparks” in due time.Īnyways, the movie poster for Tommy famously promised that “Your senses will never be the same.” And in my case, I think that may have actually been true. I was also featured in the museum of WBGO jazz 88 Radio (NPR), with another solo exhibition of Musical Visions. Prior to that I had 2 one man shows in NYC at the Berekeley Gallery on Madison Avenue. After being exposed to an intensive regimen of Zen Meditation, I began to "See" the music, and decided to spend my career "painting MUSIC!" The implications are highly spiritual, because we are experiencing the music in another dimension, at a deeper level of reality, suggesting that all energies and peoples are one! Musical Visions is currently on exhibition at the Ward Nasse Gallery in SoHo, New York. I spent some time as a musician, and was a WNEW Prisoner of Rock, and had a regional hit with "Riverside Drive," and my innovative dance tracks were featured on L'Rai Radio in Europe. ![]() ![]() Before I was a painter and musician, I was a writer, so there is a "river of words" which runs through the art, and thus the text accompanying the pieces is an indivisable part of the artwork, informing the images, and taking them to another conceptual and spiritual level! In my salad days I worked in TV News for ABC-TV and NBC-TV as a writer. My great grandfather wrote the "Hatikvah," the national anthem of Israel, and my father was a commercial artist, thus the genetic splicing that produced "Musical Visions!" These are paintings of music, with the music being channeled through the abstract, and realism being used to depict the man or woman's relationship with his instrument and body. "Musical Visions" is my body of work, spanning all aspects of music from jazz to rock, from dance to spirit, and beyond.
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