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Terry Bassett was the visionary, the charismatic leader and a trail-blazing executive of the Live Music & Touring Industry. And, according to those closest to him, he learned about business from his days as a batboy in his hometown of Wenatchee, Wash. Terry Bassett was the creator of Concerts West/Management III - and forerunner to Ticketmaster, and although The Kid from Wenatchee shunned the limelight, many credit him with creating the modern touring business turning it into a turn-key business model. Bassett helped create the industry as we know it by consolidating disparate functions of touring including promotion, marketing, advertising, tour logistics, booking, security and back of house necessities such as lighting, sound and hospitality into a turn-key business model. In the early 1960s Bassett helped discover a young local guitar prodigy named Jimi Hendrix, and his first tour was with the young guitar god. “They’d drive in a station wagon with Jimi, and his guitars and his amps in the back,” recalls John Meglen, president and co-CEO of Concerts West. “They’d get to the building and Hendrix would get out with his guitar and amps and go into the building while Bassett would go to the local printer, pick up their posters, flip down the tailgate and take turns running around behind tacking up the posters saying ‘Jimi Hendrix: Tonight. Omaha Civic Center.’ And those guys started national touring. Nobody had done it before them.” 'He wasn't legendary ... He was mythical!' says Charles Negron, lead vocalist of the rock band Three Dog Night, which Terry helped form in 1968. Among his most famous clients were Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan , The Rolling Stones , Elton John , Paul McCartney and Wings, Eagles , Neil Diamond , Stevie Wonder , John Denver, The Who , The Beach Boys , Three Dog Night , Bachman-Turner Overdrive , Grand Funk Railroad and many more. This documentary will give you an in-depth look into the life of a legend ... or was he a myth?
In landlocked Central Africa, 130 years ago, an evolutionary saga took place. It lasted 90 years, to create modernity from raw untamed bushlands in Ancient Zambezia . This drama invoked nine decades of progress - from Cecil Rhodes’ Pioneer Column in 1890, with more settlers thereafter, to 1980. Amid initial adversity, and four wars in its first decade, there followed more decades of prosperity - and then 16 years of war again. That brutal bush war, supported and armed by foreign powers, was conceived, funded, with radical and socialist-aligned belligerents, an aimed to overturn Pax Rhodesiana in its last years. The war brought an abrupt end to Central Africa’s longest established and most modern state. It wrought tragedy to almost all and led to an inheritor state – Zimbabwe – that fell into the hands of One-Party dictatorship, corrupt elites, nomenklatura, with military junta. It was to impoverish millions. This is the story of 'Rhodes to Revolution - The Bush War in Rhodesia / An Arc in Africa's History' This hard-hitting presenter led documentary will spell out and unfold the dynamics of near forgotten piece of African history.
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