Harvey Brooks (born Harvey Goldstein ; July 4, 1944) is an American bass guitarist.
34-460: Harvey Brooks may refer to: Harvey Brooks (bassist) (born 1944), American bassist Harvey Brooks (physicist) (1915–2004), American physicist Harvey Brooks (composer) (1899–1968), American pianist and composer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
68-583: A Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument . In The New York Times , writer Quentin Crisp praised the Chateau's "avoiding undue modernization and stayed deliberately in the romantic past." The hotel was acquired in 1990 by André Balazs . Balazs needed to modernize the hotel while also preserving Chateau Marmont's character. For the restoration, Balazs strove to create the illusion that the hotel had been untouched, notwithstanding renovations. The entire facility
102-472: A Gothic Chateau ( Chateau d'Amboise where Leonardo da Vinci is buried) located along the Loire River . In 1927, Horowitz commissioned his brother-in-law, European-trained architect Arnold A. Weitzman, to design the seven-story, L-shaped building based on his photos from France. When deciding upon a name for the building, Chateau Sunset and Chateau Hollywood were rejected in favor of Chateau Marmont, after
136-420: A New York music scene in the early 1960s. One of the younger players on his instrument, he was a contemporary of Felix Pappalardi and Andy Kulberg and other eclectic bass players in their late teens and early twenties, who saw a way to bridge the styles of folk, blues, rock, and jazz. Brooks got his first boost to fame when he was asked to play as part of Bob Dylan 's backing band on the sessions that yielded
170-417: A concept album of music inspired by the hotel, named Room 29 , after one of the rooms with a piano. The cover photos for various albums have been taken at the hotel, including Gram Parsons 's GP and Death Grips 's infamous No Love Deep Web , and many musicians have performed live at the hotel, including Anne Pigalle . In December 2023, Miley Cyrus gave a private Concert performing her best songs of
204-517: A home for New Yorkers in Hollywood. The hotel has 63 rooms, suites , cottages, and bungalows . In 2020, the hotel announced plans to become a members-only hotel. These plans were withdrawn in 2022. In 1926, Fred Horowitz, a prominent Los Angeles attorney, chose the site at Marmont Lane and Sunset Boulevard to construct an apartment building. Horowitz had recently traveled to Europe for inspiration and returned to California with photos of
238-685: A job as staff producer. He connected with producer Teo Macero , who led him to Miles Davis . Brooks contributed to Bitches Brew (1970) and Big Fun (1974). On the sessions in August and November 1969, two bassists were used. Brooks played electric bass while Dave Holland simultaneously played acoustic bass. In 1970 Brooks returned to the studio with Dylan for the New Morning album playing on The Man In Me , If Not For You , and Day Of The Locusts , Seals & Crofts' Summer Breeze and Down Home albums, and Paul Kantner 's Blows Against
272-611: A new restaurant, opened in a former residential building on the eastern edge of the property. Balazs had spent five years courting the restaurateur, Reika Alexander of New York City's EN Japanese Brasserie. Throughout the years, Chateau Marmont has gained recognition. Anthony Bourdain , Johnny Depp , Tim Burton , Death Grips , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Anthony Kiedis , Annie Leibovitz , Courtney Love , Lana Del Rey , Jay McInerney , Helmut Newton , Dorothy Parker , Nicholas Ray , Terry Richardson , Hunter S. Thompson , and Bruce Weber , among others, have produced work at
306-474: A report involving accounts from more than thirty former hotel employees that accused the hotel's management and Balazs of fomenting racial discrimination and sexual harassment practices at the hotel; they also accused Balazs of neglecting to provide them with adequate health insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic and suspected the hotel's members-only conversion as an attempt to prevent unionization among
340-627: Is a hotel located at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles , California. The hotel was designed by architects Arnold A. Weitzman and William Douglas Lee and completed in 1929. It was modeled loosely after the Château d'Amboise , a royal retreat in France's Loire Valley . The hotel is known as both a long- and short-term residence for celebrities – historically "populated by people either on their way up or on their way down" – as well as
374-586: Is also the office of fictional paparazzo Patrick Immleman in the Panel Syndicate web comic The Private Eye . The hotel has also been referred to in many songs, including the title track "Plastic Hearts" by Miley Cyrus from her 2020 album , "chateau" by blackbear from his 2017 album digital druglord , Panic! At The Disco 's " Dying in LA ", the Grateful Dead 's "West L.A. Fadeaway" from
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#1732801276820408-579: The Hollywood Bowl in 1965. This band included Robbie Robertson (guitar) and Levon Helm (drums). From the Dylan single and album, Brooks branched out in a multitude of directions, as he went on to play on records by folk artists including Fred Neil , Eric Andersen at Vanguard Records , Richie Havens , Peter, Paul and Mary , Tom Rush and Jim & Jean at Verve Records , transitional electric folk-rockers such as David Blue (whose producer
442-893: The 17th Street Band and El Regalo, the Gift by Francisco Gonzalez. Brooks and his wife Bonnie moved to Israel on August 4, 2009, living in Jerusalem writing his memoir "View From The Bottom" , and teaching, performing and recording in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. He was featured in a cover story at Bass Musician magazine, March 2011. Brooks finished his memoir in 2020 and six months later in 2021 released his first solo album of original vocal and instrumental music entitled, Harvey Brooks " Elegant Geezer,Jerusalem Sessions" , featuring Oren Fried, Yehuda Ashash, Steve Peskoff, Ioram Linker, Jamie Saft, Daniel Naiman, Ehud Banai and Danny Sanderson. Produced by Matthew J. Adams . Notes Bibliography Chateau Marmont The Chateau Marmont
476-648: The Attic, a Seattle-based record label, reissued the 1971 album In My Own Time by Karen Dalton , which was arranged and produced by Brooks. His last USA project was the 17th Street Band based in Tucson, Arizona. With his wife producer/author/multimedia artist and children's book author of Gramps Has A Ponytail, Bonnie Brooks and guitarist Tom Kusian he started 17th Street Records with two releases in November 2009 distributed by City Hall Records: Positively 17th Street by
510-720: The Empire . He also recorded with John Martyn , The Fabulous Rhinestones , Fontella Bass , John Sebastian , Loudon Wainwright III , John Cale , and Paul Burlison. Later he toured with Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers in 1982 and Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the late 1980s. Brooks played with Donald Fagen 's Rock and Soul Revue from 1991–1992. After a short stint with Danny Kortchmar's Slo Leak band in Westport CT, he relocated to Tucson Arizona in 1994 continuing to perform and record. In 2006, Light in
544-815: The Stars (2014). The opening scene from The Canyons (2013) was shot at the now-closed Bar Marmont. The Chateau is featured—often as a setting—in many books, including Martin Amis 's Money (1984) (as the Vraimont), Eve Babitz 's Eve's Hollywood (1974) and Slow Days, Fast Company (1977), James Ellroy 's The Big Nowhere (1988), Dominick Dunne 's An Inconvenient Woman (1990) and Another City, Not My Own (1997), Charles Bukowski 's Hollywood (1989), Lee Child 's Bad Luck and Trouble (2007), Lauren Weisberger 's Last Night at Chateau Marmont (2010), and Michael Connelly 's The Drop (2011). It
578-477: The album Highway 61 Revisited (1965) — in contrast to the kind of folkie-electric sound generated by the band on his previous album, Bringing It All Back Home (1965). Producer Bob Johnston and Dylan were looking for a harder, in-your-face electric sound, and Brooks, along with guitarist Michael Bloomfield and organist Al Kooper , provided exactly what was needed. Brooks was also part of Dylan's early backing band which performed at Forest Hills, Queens and
612-548: The album In the Dark , Lana Del Rey 's 2011 single " Off to the Races " from Born to Die , Father John Misty 's "Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)" from I Love You, Honeybear (2015), Angus & Julia Stone 's 2017 single " Chateau " from Snow , Lily Allen 's 2017 single " Trigger Bang " from No Shame , and Joshua Radin 's 2020 single "Chateau." In 2017, Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales collaborated on
646-405: The band and move over to John Sebastian 's house to begin pre-production on John B. Sebastian (1970) album. The Manhattan sessions to finish the album were produced by Paul Rothchild and recorded at Jerry Ragovoy's Hit Factory . After buying a loft in what was to become The Soho section of Greenwich Village Brooks got a call from Jack Gold, vice president of Columbia Records , offering him
680-623: The film The Trip (1967), A Long Time Coming (1968) and The Electric Flag, An American Music Band (1968). After the Electric Flag disbanded, Brooks took up temporary residence at the Chateau Marmont hotel on Sunset Strip . From there he played on Cass Elliot 's Dream a Little Dream (1968), and with Nick Gravenites and Pete Welding he produced Quicksilver Messenger Service (1968) for Capitol Records. Brooks also played on The Doors ' The Soft Parade (1969) album on
714-403: The four bungalows in 1956, after he completed Case Study Houses . Business was good for the hotel, although by the 1960s, the building was in disrepair, and the owners attempted to sell it multiple times. News articles about the hotel from the 1960s and 1970s described it as an "elderly castle", a "dowdy hotel", "rundown", and "shabby-genteel". After sitting on the market for two years,
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#1732801276820748-402: The hotel was sold in 1975 to Raymond R. Sarlot and Karl Kantarjian of Sarlot-Kantarjian, a real estate development firm, for $ 1.1 million. Sarlot-Kantarjian planned to expand the hotel with a new wing. They repaired and upgraded many elements of the hotel, but tried to stay true to the hotel's character and history. In 1976, after their acquisition and improvements began, the Chateau was named
782-462: The hotel's employees. Despite the denial of the allegations by the hotel management and Balazs, multiple employment discrimination lawsuits were filed against the hotel, with the hotel facing picketing from labor union UNITE HERE and boycotts from numerous celebrities; in support of the boycott, a night shoot at the hotel for Aaron Sorkin 's Being the Ricardos was canceled just hours before
816-636: The hotel. Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor married the band's hairdresser Tracey Wilson at the hotel in 1982. Director Sofia Coppola shot her film Somewhere at the hotel in 2010. The hotel also appears in the Academy Award -winning films La La Land (2016) and A Star Is Born (2018), as well as The Night Walker (1964), The Strip (1951) , Myra Breckinridge (1970), Blume in Love (1973), The Doors (1991), Dangerous Game (1993), Laurel Canyon (2003), and Maps to
850-540: The intended start of production. On May 1, 2024, paramedics were called to the hotel when Britney Spears and her boyfriend allegedly got into a domestic dispute. Spears was seen leaving the hotel wearing just her underwear and covering herself with a blanket as she walked out barefoot. Spears did not seek medical assistance despite the alleged incident. The hotel restaurant terrace features market-fresh California cuisine from chef Dean Yasharian. The restaurant Bar Marmont closed in 2017. In July 2018, Chateau Hanare,
884-407: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harvey_Brooks&oldid=714430859 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Harvey Brooks (bassist) Brooks came out of
918-418: The long-standing color line in Hollywood and Beverly Hills hotels. Designed and constructed to be earthquake-proof , Chateau Marmont survived major earthquakes in 1933, 1952, 1971, 1987, and 1994 without sustaining any major structural damage. Nine Spanish cottages, as well as a swimming pool, were built next to the hotel in the 1930s and were acquired by the hotel in the 1940s. Craig Ellwood designed two of
952-633: The site, including local press. Due to the high rents and inability to keep tenants for long-term commitments during the Great Depression , Horowitz sold the apartment building in 1931 to Albert E. Smith , co-founder of Vitagraph Studios , for $ 750,000 in cash (equivalent to $ 15,030,000 in 2023). Smith converted the building into a hotel, an investment which benefitted from the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The apartments became suites with kitchens and living rooms. The property
986-450: The small street running in front of the property. On February 1, 1929, Chateau Marmont opened its doors to the public as the newest residence of Hollywood. Local newspapers described the Chateau as "Los Angeles's newest, finest and most exclusive apartment house […] superbly situated, close enough to active businesses to be accessible and far enough away to ensure quiet and privacy." For the inaugural reception, over 300 people passed through
1020-1008: The songs " Touch Me ", " Tell All the People " and " Wishful Sinful ". Producer Paul Rothchild wanted to give the Doors a fresh sound. He hired Brooks to play and help organize the rhythm tracks and Paul Harris to write some string and horn arrangements. Brooks also played live with the Doors at the Forum in Los Angeles and Madison Square Garden in New York and was on the Michael Bloomfield / Al Kooper / Stephen Stills Super Session (1968) release. His song "Harvey's Tune" appeared on this album. Brooks moved east to meet Crosby, Stills & Nash in Sag Harbor , New York. Musical and business disagreements caused Brooks and Paul Harris to leave
1054-482: The year. Actor James Franco created a replica of the Chateau's Bungalow 2 for his Rebel Without a Cause exhibit at MOCA in 2012. The hotel's stationery has featured in work by artists André , Gary Baseman , Robert Gober , Martin Kippenberger , and Claes Oldenburg , among others. The Chateau's branding was featured in a capsule collection from fashion label Gucci in 2018. John Belushi died of
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1088-554: Was also refurbished with antiques from Depression-era estate sales. During the 1930s, the hotel was managed by former silent film actress Ann Little . During World War II , the hotel served as an air-raid shelter for residents in the surrounding area. From about 1942 to 1963 the Chateau was owned by Erwin Brettauer, a German banker who had funded films in Weimar Germany , and was noted for allowing Black guests, breaking
1122-580: Was looking for a sound similar to that on Highway 61 Revisited ), and various blues-rock fusion projects involving Bloomfield and Kooper. Brooks met Michael Bloomfield at the Highway 61 Revisited sessions and was recruited to join Bloomfield's Electric Flag based in Mill Valley , California. The Flag only lasted in its original line-up for about a year, and recorded three albums: a soundtrack for
1156-512: Was re-carpeted, repainted, and the public spaces were upgraded. In order to preserve the privacy of the hotel and bungalows, higher fences plus coverings were used to discourage the public from looking into the grounds. On July 28, 2020, the Chateau Marmont announced plans to convert to a members-only hotel, although at least one restaurant would remain open to the public. On September 16, 2020, The Hollywood Reporter published
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