Talk:Kim Fowley

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I don't agree at all. If you'd bothered to read the article (which you should have done before tagging it as "reading it like an advertisement") you'd have seen it's far from a hagiography. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.158.87 (talk) 20:35, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Motown?

Why no mention of his time there? JBDay (talk) 00:36, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm Bad

Robert Christgau wrote a review of I'm Bad [Capitol, 1972]: "I've nothing against hype, but it's a little low to distribute snazzy jackets containing blank discs. Caveat emptor. E-"[1] Were blank discs actually released? If so, it sounds notable.
Ulmanor (talk) 05:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Producer vs. solo artist

The article focuses too much on his career producing other artists. Other than the discography, it barely touches on his extensive solo work.212.182.133.214 (talk) 10:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Mother

Someone back in April 2011 changed his mother's name from Shelby Payne, which is what it says in his book and on his web page, as given in the reference, to "Timara Pace", which I don't think is even a real person and certainly is not Kim Fowley's mother. In his book he describes her as a "debutante-cum-starlet", so I have also changed her profession. 67.170.84.219 (talk) 00:39, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

The Timara Pace edit was here - shame it hasn't been corrected earlier. As corroboration, Shelby Payne has an IMDb entry here, and more info here, here, here, etc. Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:57, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Hypephone?

"He later appeared on hypephone on Frank Zappa's first album Freak Out!." I've checked and this word doesn't exist in the internet dictionaries I used. Is this an outdated term for a item that no longer exists? Is it a made up word to describe something else and was used as such in the album's liner notes/credits? To aid the casual reader it would be nice for some clarification on this one. Thoughts?THX1136 (talk) 14:52, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I'm assuming it's a musical instrument.. though, splitting hairs here, one MIGHT not 'appear'.. more like, performed or played 'hypephone on Frank...'. Perhaps a piano horn or waterphone? That said.. get the album/CD and listen to it, like duh! 76.218.250.61 (talk) 15:52, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

@THX1136: Miles, Barry (2005). Zappa. New York: Grove Press. p. 113. ISBN 9780802142153. OCLC 55494854. Retrieved August 1, 2015. Vito and Karl Franzoni yipped and yelled, while Kim Fowley as chorus leader contributed on 'hypophone' (Frank [Zappa's] word for Fowley's big mouth). TJRC (talk) 07:38, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

Rape allegations

In an article posted on Huffington Post in July 2015, Kim Fowley is accused of having raped one of the members of all-girl rockband the Runaways which he managed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:983:80B:1:FCDA:C3A4:A1C7:D306 (talk) 08:23, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

The article mentions the claims under "Personal life". At this stage, I'm not convinced they are appropriate for the lede. Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:16, 9 July 2015 (UTC)