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\"my-dinner-w-jimi\"Flo and Eddie are to the music business like Kevin Bacon is to the movie business. There seems to be six degrees separating the duo from anyone\u2014and everyone\u2014else in the industry.<\/p>\n

Flo\u2014AKA Mark Volman\u2014and Eddie\u2014AKA Howard Kaylan–were\u00a0 just a couple of New York-born, SoCal-raised high school friends who made a big splash in the \u201860s as the guiding forces of the Turtles.<\/p>\n

When they were very young, they had a host of hummable, hit pop tunes: \u201cHappy Together,\u201d \u201cElenore,\u201d \u201cI Only Wanna Be with You,\u201d \u201cYou Showed Me,\u201d and a cover of Dylan\u2019s \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Me Babe.\u201d Kaylan and Volman stuck together when the group disbanded, joining Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention for a few albums (and the movie 200 Motels), and billing themselves as the Phlorescent Leach and Eddie. After parting ways with the Mothers, they truncated the name to Flo and Eddie and became background vocal specialists, lending their talents to classic tunes as diverse as T. \u00a0Rex\u2019s \u201cBang a Gong (Get It On)\u201d and Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cHungry Heart.\u201d They also performed with a diverse stable of artists like John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ray Manzarek, Stephen Stills, Alice Cooper, Sammy Hagar and the Psychedelic Furs. In their spare time, the guys wrote and performed music for the animated favorites The Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. \u00a0They also supplied the voices, the screenplay and the music for the Bakshi-esque animated film Dirty Duck.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Flo and Eddie had successful gigs as disc jockeys in New York and Los Angeles, and put out several albums that offered such novelty gems as \u201cKeep It Warm\u201d and \u201cNikki Hoi.\u201d With a resume like this, you\u2019d think there would be a great book about Kaylan and Volman\u2019s exploits in the world of rock-and-roll over the last five decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had begun to write an autobiographical book and started out with my views and carried it forward,\u201d says Kaylan from his home in the state of Washington. \u201cI thought it would turn into a VH1 movie kind of thing, I didn\u2019t want to make just a book of the thing that made such an impression on me.\u201d Well, Kaylan\u2014the bearded one, as opposed to Volman, the cherubic, curly-haired fellow\u2014decided to tell his story in a different medium.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never even considered my experiences as a film,\u201d confesses the 62-year-old Kaylan. \u201cBut it became a germ inside of the brain of Harold Bronson, who was the head of Rhino Records. Harold went on to a lovely retirement. And yet he was frustrated and wanted to do other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rhino\u2019s track record in the movies was spotty at best. They had produced the unsuccessful Frankie Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, featuring Halle Berry and Angela Basset, which Kaylan calls \u201ca really depressing movie.\u201d Then there was the adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was originally supposed to be helmed by Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy.) Eventually, Terry Gilliam came aboard with star Johnny Depp, and, according to Kaylan, booted the Rhino contingent off the set. While the film caught on eventually on DVD as a cult item, it failed miserably when first released in theaters.<\/p>\n

But Bronson eventually took a chance, backing a short based on Kaylan\u2019s script. The focus was on a story Kaylan once told Bronson about the wild, mid-\u201860s night in London when he met guitar hero Jimi Hendrix.\u00a0\u201cI bought the \u2018Final Script\u2019 (computer) program and some books and wrote it just about the night in London,\u201d recalls Kaylan. \u201cWe made a little film, and they wanted to take it to Warner and give it a mini-release and get it to film festivals. But then they said they can\u2019t get anything released at 20 minutes, they said they needed another hour, so I had to go back into the \u2018Turtle Diaries\u2019 that I\u2019ve kept for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaylan\u2019s script turned out to be My Dinner with Jimi<\/a>, a breezy ride through 1960s rock-and-roll chronicling the rise of the Turtles as America\u2019s answer to the Beatles. Eight days were added to the one-day shooting schedule under the direction of Bill Fishman (Tapeheads). The movie works as a frenzied mini-history of the band, following their U.S. success and their first tour of Europe. Making cameo appearances are the likes of Zappa, Jim Morrison, Mama Cass Elliott, Donovan, the Moody Blues, the Beatles, Graham Nash, photographer Henry Diltz and, of course, Hendrix. Recruited to play supporting parts were John Corbett, George Wendt and Curtis Armstrong.<\/p>\n

One of the highlights of My Dinner with Jimi is a scene in which the Turtles land at L.A.\u2019s fabled Canter\u2019s Deli after a gig and run into the likes of Morrison, Elliott and Zappa. But Kaylan admits that the incident never really occurred\u2014it is a composite of a typical post-gig early morning. However, \u201ceverything else in the film is exactly as it happened,\u201d according to Kaylan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can close my eyes and view it as a documentary,\u201d says Kaylan, who tours regularly with Volman and other musicians as The Turtles, featuring Flo and Eddie. \u201cIf you lived through the 1960s, there\u2019s a link that you feel, maybe it was the 16 mm and hand-held approach we used. If we used things money could have bought it may not have come across as well. Anyone who lived through the era can relive the experience. My 19-year-old daughter gets it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film played in several film festivals and was enthusiastically received. But it took a few years to make it to the American market, because Bronson refused to put it out. \u201cWe went to Canada and it opened in Toronto,\u201d says Kaylan. \u201cDVDs were out in foreign countries. You could get it Portuguese or German, but not English.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, a DVD deal was struck\u2014years after the film\u2019s completion\u2014and it came out on DVD a few months ago.\u00a0 \u201cThis was important to me,\u201d says Kaylan, relieved the film has finally found its way to domestic DVD. \u201cIt was like writing a book or doing a solo record to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

True to the era\u2019s groovy atmosphere, My Dinner with Jimi is filled with extraneous drug use. \u201cIt was my idea not to have any moral consequence of the drug use of the era,\u201d relates Kaylan. \u201cThis is not a morality play in any way, shape or form, and that bothered some of the higher-ups (at Warner, who at one time distributed Rhino). Nothing bad happened (at the time), so there\u2019s no morality. They would have liked it to have a neater ending to have it tied up in a bow. But drugs made us hipper, stronger and better, and helped us jump into 200 Motels and get our day in the spotlight in hipness.\u201d<\/p>\n

A surprising sequence in My Dinner with Jimi depicts the Turtles meeting with the Beatles. And the film\u2019s portrayal of John Lennon is not all that flattering. In fact, Lennon is painted as a needling jerk, who mocks The Turtles, whose aspiration was to become the American version of The Fab Four.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite frankly, I kind of understand (his behavior),\u201d says Kaylan. \u201cJohn was at the peak of his power in 1967 and the Beatles ruled the earth as gods. It\u2019s hard to see it if you pictured this man as a god. This is 6 o\u2019clock in the morning and these guys are drunk and high. The fight McCartney had with Jane Asher (depicted in the film) did happen. He was short, but Lennon was lot more venomous. The fact he got on (Turtles guitarist) Jim Tucker\u2019s case. He singled him out for the mod suit and mod haircut, which is absolutely authentic. McCartney kept elbowing him, \u2018These men are our friends.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky and fortunate he didn\u2019t come down on my ass or we would have never stayed in the club. Jim Tucker still regrets the incident. When you\u2019re a rock god, things are different. The Beatles were terrific guys. This was just one bizarre night where John was a little too goofy.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder similar circumstances, I probably would have done the same thing,\u201d admits Kaylan.<\/p>\n

\u201cYears later, Lennon brought it up,\u201d Kaylan says. \u201cI purchased a little pipe in Greenwich Village and I had it with me. We were in a room with guitars and John and Yoko and Frank (Zappa).<\/p>\n

\u201cI broke out my hash pipe, and gave it to John who took a hit, then Yoko did, and we all get wasted. Lennon brought it up. I said, \u2018You were kind of interesting that night.\u2019 He said, \u2018What can I say? I was a d**k!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cPaul remembers it vividly to this day. He\u2019s got quite a memory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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