253. Shep Gordon

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

The legendary "Supermensch," talent manager and producer Shep Gordon joins Gilbert and Frank from his Hawaii home to share storied tales of his 50+ years in rock 'n' roll and to talk about the pitfalls of fame, the importance of "making history," the secret of client-manager relationships and the benefits of "bad" publicity. Also, Janis Joplin packs a punch, Cary Grant adopts a cat, Elton John gets showered in panties and Shep saves Raquel Welch from a wardrobe malfunction. PLUS: Wolfman Jack! The late, great Teddy Pendergrass! Groucho dishes dirt! Shep hangs with the Dalai Lama! And Alice Cooper gets fired out of a cannon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nancy Allen and you're listening to Gilbert Godfrees amazing colossal hot plant.
0:10.0	Oh, thank you.
0:12.0	This could take a while.
0:15.0	This could take a while.
0:16.0	We got the time.
0:17.0	Okay, I'm Nancy Allen and you're listening to Gilbert Godfrees amazing colossal podcast.
0:25.0	Gilbert, you eat shit.
0:28.0	You're a very sick person.
0:35.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Godfrees.
0:58.0	This is Gilbert Godfrees amazing colossal podcast with my co-hosts Frank Santopadre and our
1:11.0	engineer Frank Ferdarosa.
1:19.0	Our guest this week is a genuine bona fide showbiz legend, a producer, a New York
1:22.0	Times best selling author, an entrepreneur, and one of the most successful and
1:30.6	influential talent managers in showbiz history guiding the careers of artists
1:37.0	such as Ann Murray, Blondie, Teddy Pendergrass, Luthavandros, Ben Burrine, Squeeze, Frankie
1:44.8	Valley, George Clinton, Kenny Loggins, the pointer sisters, Raquel Welch, Rick James,
1:55.8	and even Groucho Marx.
2:05.8	He even managed Pink Floyd for all of nine days.
2:08.8	And he's still working with his original client and long time friend, Alice Cooper.
2:13.8	He's also a movie producer helping bring to the screen award-winning films like The Doorlist,
2:22.8	Kiss of the Spider Woman, Rodi, Stop Making Sense, Choose Me, The Wales of Orgas,
2:31.8	Wes Craven Shocker, and John Carpenter's They Live.
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