Rudolph Grey

Rudolph Grey
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • author
InstrumentElectric guitar
Years active1990s–present
LabelNew Alliance
Member of

Rudolph Grey is an American musician and the biographer of filmmaker Ed Wood.

As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars, with John Giorno in the opera Agamemon (1993), and under his own name. He has also as led and recorded with various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans. His music draws on no wave and free jazz.

Grey is also a motion-picture historian and wrote Nightmare of Ecstasy (1992), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful cult films. Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood was based on Grey's book.

In 2001, in a Los Angeles warehouse, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, Necromania, which had been presumed to be lost.

In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called Dad Made Dirty Movies, about the life and career of the 1960s porn-film producer Stephen C. Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with Ed Wood.

Discography

As leader

  • Mask of Light (New Alliance, 1991)
  • Transfixed (New Alliance, 1994)

As The Blue Humans

As member/sideman

With Mars

Live at Irving Plaza (Feeding Tube / Negative Glam, 2012) – rec. 1978; featured musician on the track "Nn End"

With Red Transistor

With others

Selected bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., 1992, Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8
  2. ↑ Marc Masters, (2007) No Wave London, Black Dog Publishing, pp. 42-46
  3. ↑ The Blue Humans bio in Allmusic.com
  4. ↑ New Yorker: Weird Love
  5. ↑ , Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.
  6. ↑ "Live at Irving Plaza - Mars | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.