Rudolph Grey

Rudolph Grey is a musician and the biographer of filmmaker Ed Wood.[1]

As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with Mars,[2] under his own name, as well as leading various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans.[3] His music draws on no wave and free jazz.

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

In 2001, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, Necromania, which had been presumed to be lost, in a Los Angeles warehouse.[4]

In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called Dad Made Dirty Movies, about the life and career of 1960s porn film producer Stephen Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with filmmaker Ed Wood.[5]

Discography

Mars
Date Album Notes Label
2012 (Recorded 1978) Live at Irving Plaza Featured musician on the track "Nn End"[6] Feeding Tube/Negative Glam

Rudolph Grey
Date Album Notes Label
1991 Mask of Light - New Alliance
1994 Transfixed - New Alliance

Blue Humans
Date Album Notes Label
1993 Clear to Higher Time Studio recording 1991, produced by Thurston Moore New Alliance
1993 To Higher Time Live CBGB's 1990 New Alliance
1995 Incandescence CBGB's opening for Sonic Youth Shock
1995 Live NY 1980 With Beaver Harris and Arthur Doyle Audible Hiss
1996 Live in London 1994 With Charles Gayle and Tom Surgal Blast First

Red Transistor
Date Album Notes Label
1990 Not Bite/We're Not Crazy 7" single recorded 1977, Red Star Records Ecstatic Peace!

Recordings of sessions led by others
Date Artists Album Label
1996 Arthur Doyle Live at the Cooler The Lotus Sound

Bibliography

Published works include:

  • 1992: Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr., Feral House, ISBN 978-0-922915-04-0; reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8 – Biography of Ed Wood

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.


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