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] with John Giorno in the opera Agamemon (1993), and under his own name. Grey has also as led and recorded with 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. [1], Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.
6. "Live at Irving Plaza - Mars | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.

External links

• Rudolph Grey at AllMusic
• Rudolph Grey at IMDb