From: kent williams ()
Date: Jan 13, 2008
Subject:
Re: (313) Ron Murphy
I hope at some point the Free Press or D.News does a feature on Ron.
He touched so many lives, including mine. I paid Ron to cut a
record, but getting your record cut was only part of the deal. You
got techno anecdotes -- in my case, including Ron's impression of Jeff
Mills sputtering in reaction to the lock groove on The Rings Of
Saturn. You got business advice -- "Be an artist, or be a
businessman. Artists never make a business out of making records."
Interesting, considering most of the Detroit record labels were
started by the artists themselves.
And then there was Ron's un-selfconscious goofiness -- he was eating
potato salad out of a plastic tub through my whole cutting session,
and when he heard a part of one of my tracks he liked he danced a
little endomorphic jiggle for a few seconds.
But it is really a loss that there will be no more records cut by him.
Every one of them was stamped with Ron's personality. Given his
health problems, we were lucky to have him for as long as we did.