Dooner’s World – Episode 89 – Gary Gutierrez (Special FX Director, Title sequence Editor, Animation genius (Grateful Dead Movie), Director Touch of Grey, Foolish Heart, Just a little Light,
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Show Notes:
· Early life in Georgia, then Nevada
· Playing Tuba classical
· First mentor, Larry Jordan
· Moving to San Francisco and going to school
· Second mentor, John Korty
· Meeting Jerry Garcia for the 1st time – He smoked a joint with him…and Kept the roach!!!!
· Collaborating with Jerry on the Grateful Dead movie intro
· Gary describes the creative process in such awesome detail!!
· Seeing Dead for the first time
· Jerry inviting Gary to smoke a joint with Bob Dylan behind the amps at set break – Jerry mainly told Bob about the time playing in Egypt
· Gary shows us some of his artifact – model from the Top Gun movie and the Title plaque from Dracula!
· Gary will be returning to continue his stories with Jerry and Francis Ford Coppola
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