Frazier Mohawk

Barry Friedman, who in the past due ’60s changed his name to Frazier Mohawk, was one of the most colorful behind-the-scenes statistics from the 1960s LA folk-rock/psychedelic community. His most noticeable credits are being a manufacturer of albums by Kaleidoscope, Nico, as well as the Holy Modal Rounders, in addition to controlling Buffalo Springfield within their very start. He’d entered display business as an adolescent, working in tv production, circuses, so when a newspapers photographer. Work performing publicity for LA DJ and tv sponsor Bob Eubanks resulted in doing audio mixes for rings playing go on tv. As an all-around jack-of-trades, within the mid-’60s he do promotion for Ike Turner as well as the Troubadour golf club, and pictures for Hoyt Axton’s first recording. Buffalo Springfield essentially shaped in Friedman’s house, where Stephen Stills was remaining as he attempted to create a music group, luring Richie Furay through the East Coast. It had been Friedman who was simply driving the automobile holding Stills and Furay on Sunset Boulevard on that mythical day time when they handed Neil Youthful and Bruce Palmer traveling a hearse with Ontario permit plates in the contrary direction. All music artists, plus Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin, had been mentored by Friedman because they began to rehearse and gig in Hollywood. Friedman was their supervisor at that time if anyone was, but got edged out by Charlie Greene and Brian Rock. Friedman experienced high-level record creation by creating a couple of tracks for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band’s second record, East Western world. This, Friedman’s creation of the initial record by Kaleidoscope, and his a friendly relationship with Paul Rothchild helped result in a posture at Elektra Information, as someone type of designed to deal with the label’s freakier rings. Certainly there have been few freakier rock and roll functions of any type compared to the Holy Modal Rounders, whose single Elektra recording, the wacky The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders, was made by Friedman. By enough time that recording arrived, Friedman had transformed his name to Frazier Mohawk. Around once, he also created the second recording by Nico, The Marble Index, and Koerner, Ray & Glover’s Operating, Jumping, Standing up Still. Mohawk was also greatly in an Elektra-funded communal task of types at Paxton Lodge in rural California. The theory was to obtain encouraging singer/songwriters and music artists from the city, in to the nation, and right into a less-stressful environment conducive to creativeness. Jackson Browne was among the artists taking part in the effort, and an unreleased recording, Baby Browning, do derive from the test. Elektra Records chief executive Jac Holzman offers said that recording wasn’t great, and apparently there is even more sex and medicines than rock and roll & roll occurring at Paxton Lodge, therefore the task was discontinued. (You can find additional information about Paxton Lodge in Holzman’s autobiography, Adhere to the Music.) Mohawk wedded Sandra Hurvitz, who transformed her name to Essra Mohawk and documented some eccentric albums which have garnered a cult. In the 1970s, Mohawk relocated to Canada and stayed involved in creation for several obscure performers. He constructed a studio room at Puck’s Plantation, about 45 moments north of Toronto, which was continuing to find out action in the first 21st century. One of is own afterwards productions was from the Holy Modal Rounders’ past due-’90s record AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF Fun, completed about 30 years after he previously caused them at Elektra Information.