Rudolph Grey

Rudolph Grey is a musician and the biographer of filmmaker Ed Wood.Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., 1992, Feral House, {{ISBN|978-0-922915-04-0}}; reprinted 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-922915-24-8}}

As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars,Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, pp. 42-46 with John Giorno in the opera [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnqaLqjLl8M Agamemon] (1993), and under his own name. Grey has also as led and recorded with various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans.[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p37472|pure_url=yes}} The Blue Humans bio in Allmusic.com] His music draws on no wave and free jazz.

Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful cult films. Tim Burton's film Ed Wood was based on Grey's book.

In 2001, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, Necromania, which had been presumed to be lost, in a Los Angeles warehouse.[http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/10/25/041025ta_talk_paumgarten New Yorker: Weird Love]

In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called Dad Made Dirty Movies, about the life and career of 1960s porn film producer Stephen Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with filmmaker Ed Wood.[https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/dad-made-dirty-movies-friday-december-9-20111201-1o8lt.html], Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.

Discography

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|valign="top"| 2012 (Recorded 1978)

|valign="top"| Live at Irving Plaza

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|valign="top"| 1991

|valign="top"| Mask of Light

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|valign="top"| 1994

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|valign="top"| 1993

|valign="top"| Clear to Higher Time

|valign="top"| Studio recording 1991, produced by Thurston Moore

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|valign="top"| 1993

|valign="top"| To Higher Time

|valign="top"| Live CBGB's 1990

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|valign="top"| 1995

|valign="top"| Incandescence

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|valign="top"| 1995

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|valign="top"| 1996

|valign="top"| Live in London 1994

|valign="top"| With Charles Gayle and Tom Surgal

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|valign="top"| 1990

|valign="top"| Not Bite/We're Not Crazy

|valign="top"| 7" single recorded 1977, Red Star Records

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|valign="top"| 1996

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Bibliography

Published works include:

1992: Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., Feral House, {{ISBN|978-0-922915-04-0}}; reprinted 1994, {{ISBN|978-0-922915-24-8}} – Biography of Ed Wood

References

External links

{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p13091|label=Rudolph Grey}}
{{IMDb name|id=0340674|name=Rudolph Grey}}

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Category:American experimental guitarists

Category:American male guitarists

Category:American biographers

Category:American male biographers

Category:No wave musicians