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Big Deal Records Wins Grammy For
"Best Metal Performance"
Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles-based
independent record label, Big Deal Records, is batting a
thousand having won a Grammy Award last night at the 47th
Annual Grammy Awards for its first ever CD release,
Metallic Attack: The Ultimate Metallica Tribute. The Grammy
Award was presented in the category of "Best Metal
Performance" for Motorhead's version of the Metallica
classic "Whiplash."
The tribute to the legendary San Francisco
heavy metal band, for which the Motorhead track was
specifically recorded, also features artists including Flotsam
& Jetsam, Death Angel, Dark Angel and members of Anthrax,
Helmet, Judas Priest, Testament and Suicidal Tendencies among
others. Metallic Attack was produced by Bruce Bouillet and Bob
Kulick and released on August 3, 2004.
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Illustration and Graphic Design
by Joey Wester
About the Picasso (interview with Rosemary Brandenburg)
The director wanted Merrick’s
character (as played by
Sean Bean) to exude wealth and the fi nest
taste. Bay opined
that great wealth confers the ability to
buy great taste. I can’t
say that I agree objectively, but I suspend
my disbelief easily
in this business and go with what the
director wants.
The script called for a Picasso, which I
found too obvious,
and couldn’t fi nd much in the
artist’s oeuvre that fi t our
color palette. However, on a weekend foray
to LACMA, I
found the perfect painting, Franz
Kline’s “The Ballantine.”
Bay agreed, so I had the clearance
department arrange
(for a hefty fee) for the rights from
Artists Rights Society,
and found an artist to work with me on the
reproduction.
Joey Wester, who I met through Marina
Keiser at ArtPic,
painted our over-sized version of the
Kline. The copy
benefi ted from the fact that Wester could
visit the painting
at the museum to absorb the variations of
texture and
gloss, and the subtleties of the grays,
whites and creams.
Although Bay loved the Kline, as the set
was preparing
to shoot, he realized he still wanted a
Picasso as well.
Some frantic research ensued. We fi nally
found an angular
black and white “Seated Woman”
in a comprehensive
on-line catalog of the artist’s
works. Wester was quickly
commissioned again, another fat check was
sent off
to Artists Rights, and lickedy split, it
looked great.
The whole business reminded me that there
are
so many fantastic folks in Hollywood
lending their
hearts and souls and craft talents to the
business.
I have heard our industry compared to
Florence in
the time of the Medici: wealthy patrons
funding the
artists to create, the accompanying tension
between
satisfying one’s patron and
one’s own muses, the
politics, and the dizzying journeys from
feast to famine.
photos: Merrick Morton © DreamWorks
2005. All rights reserved.
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Surreal Life - Season 5
Modern Props Rental
2005
West Hollywood Central features
Joey Wester
‘Talented Artist signs with Sanmar
Publishing’ on homepage .
Other news stories include the Olympics,
Bernie Mac, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Isaac Hayes.
8/10/08
Interview with Artist Joey Wester -
2007
A Pro Acrylic Artist Gives a Glimpse into
Hollywood
Channel 47 News “Business Leader of the Week” - July 2006