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Sad update 6-1-09: Manny’s Music R.I.P.

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Jimi Noel Mitch – Mannys Signed Pub Shot. Sad update 6-1-09: Manny’s Music R.I.P. Originally uploaded by Doctor Noe Manny’s Music R.I.P.: www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/nyregion/01mannys.html?scp=1&a… Today, in the New York Times I sadly read of the closing of this iconic marketplace on New York’s 48th Street. Here’s a slideshow of pics that used to line the walls: Manny’s Wall of Fame . There’s more discussion about Jimi’s relationship with Manny’s in an interview with Manny Goldrich himself in the first of two historic volumes I produced for Guitar World, JIMI HENDRIX: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE (GW September, 1985) , which is pictured right here: www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/sets/72157605512202079/ [http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2369921881/in/set-72157605512202079/] www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/sets/72157605512202079/ and its companion piece, HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, Vol. II (GW March, 1988) , which is shown here: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/2567714905/in/set-72157605512202079/] Noe the G Founding Editor of Guitar World > “}}}}”> Noe Gold, aka Noe the G is the Founding Editor of Guitar World magazine. Among his most cherished achievements is the creation, with partner Bill Nitopi, curator of the Hendrix Collection Archives and an editor-at-large of Guitar World, of two humongous Special Issues: Vol. 6, No. 5 SEPTEMBER, 1985 SPECIAL JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE! and Vol. 9, No. 2 MARCH 1988 HENDRIX LIVES!: THE UNPUBLISHED HENDRIX, Vol. II . www.flickr.com/photos/doctor_noe/sets/72157605512202079/ As to Jimi’s elctronics tech … Know him? I worked the genius electronics whiz Roger Mayer … see below: … and I am the President of Guitar Galaxy! Check out our other fine products here: The incredible “Roy Buchanan Telly Talk” DVD with a full-on master class session with the master of the Telecaster is available by just sending me an email: noemedia@pacbell.net

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About Noe Gold

About Me I have been features editor at the Hollywood Reporter and an editor and contributor to Variety, editor-in-chief of Movies USA, bikini and Guitar World and a columnist for the Village Voice and the New York Daily News. My company, noemedia, produced FX HEROES, a national newsstand magazine about big action movies. In television, I have served as the Managing Editor of VH1 and a writer/producer for Turner Broadcasting. My entertainment news column, The Daily Fix, was a regular feature of the AOL Entertainment Channel. My stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, USA Today, Premiere, The Movies and The Los Angeles Times Magazine. I am the author of articles and books on the music of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Ry Cooder, Miles Davis, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Albert King and Jaco Pastorius, among others I recently revived what used to be known as a mail-order company, Guitar Galaxy, to market and distribute some of the artifacts I was known for when I edited and founded Guitar World magazine. The latest project is a DVD, ROY BUCHANAN, TELLY TALK. For more info and how to order the DVD, see "How to Order Roy Buchanan..." "cinema is truth 24 times a second" - JL Godard "I'm glad I don't like spinach, because if I did then I would eat it, and I can't stand the stuff." - JL Godard in "Pierrot le Fou" "Film is like a battleground. Love, hate, action, violence, death. In a word, emotion." - Samuel Fuller in JL Godard's "Pierrot le Fou"

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