38 min

Talking Basquiat with Michael Holman Beginnings: The Howl Arts Podcast

    • Performing Arts

Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t know how to play an instrument, but that didn’t stop him from asking Michael Holman to join him in starting up a band. Called Gray, they created an improvised collage of sounds more in tune (or out of tune) with the avant-garde than with rap music which had arrived as the new pop sound. Holman talks with “Beginnings" host and Paper magazine founder David Hershkovits about his days with Basquiat and GOD — the Good Old Days — when New York City was burning down physi...

Jean-Michel Basquiat didn’t know how to play an instrument, but that didn’t stop him from asking Michael Holman to join him in starting up a band. Called Gray, they created an improvised collage of sounds more in tune (or out of tune) with the avant-garde than with rap music which had arrived as the new pop sound. Holman talks with “Beginnings" host and Paper magazine founder David Hershkovits about his days with Basquiat and GOD — the Good Old Days — when New York City was burning down physi...

38 min