Founding The Down Under at FSU
By now my readers know I was involved in the folk music world of the 60’s. That lasted into the 90’s. I’ll tell that story another time and what eventually led me away from that clientele. There was a woman named Nancy I was interested in during my 2 years at FSU. A mutual friend, […]
Chuck Mitchell
I knew a lot of folk singers in the 60s and 70s. I was friends with many of them. I regret as much as anything having lost touch with so many people over the years. I have spoken of publishing The PaPeR, an underground newspaper in Miami in the late 60s. Many friends gave me […]
Gamble Rogers
While revising this story I realized it repeats things that are shared in other posts, but I felt I should leave it in as not everyone is reading every post (There are over 50 now! 😊). One of my most cherished relationships with a folk singer was with Gamble Rogers. I first heard him perform […]
The True Story of How John Cougar Mellencamp Came to Be Called The “Little Bastard”
I was there. I witnessed it. And I just spoke with my friend Eileen Alexander who gave him that nickname to confirm my recollection, AND she gave me permission to name the guilty parties! Some background is necessary. If you have read the postcard story you will know how I came to have clients in […]
The White Album
I wasn’t very smart in those days about business or looking after my own interests. A friend of my father decided he wanted to start his own coffeehouse, and he planted it right across from the Flick Coffeehouse on US one near Red Road in South Miami. He hired me to recruit all the talent […]
The Postcard – Part 2
I reconnected with George Blackwell, the now recording engineer and his wife. A couple of years later his wife inherited a couple of oil wells in Michigan. George wanted to open his own voice over recording studio. He knew nothing about business and asked me for my guidance. This was the beginning of my clientele […]
The Postcard – Part 1
“He’s not just another suit…” This post originally appeared on my professional website, philipspitzer.com. It was a bit different than the usual investing thoughts or educational ideas that I shared there. This is more personal. It is for fun. My team asked if this would not just be better as a post on a personal […]