DAVE EDMUNDS, ROCK FAN
From Small Things, Mama, Big Things One Day Come!
Dave Edmunds' second biggest pleasure in life seems to be photography. A slim Edmunds (he claims he was horrified when he first saw his paunch on the cover of Rockpile's Seconds Of Pleasure LP, and has been running daily) is sitting in a Detroit Holiday Inn room, explaining how a CREEM photographer first introduced him to the modern miracles of time and light exposure. Since that time, Edmunds has accumulated over three thousand dollars' worth of photo equipment, and he was recently chosen to appear as "Celebrity Photographer of the Month" in American Photographer magazine.
Edmunds' first passion, of course, is music, specifically rock 'n' roll music and the various classic forms that went into the creation of that terminology. During the course of an hour, he lovingly discusses Chuck Berry, the Everly Brothers, Phil Spector, the Beach Boys, the blues, country & western, and becomes especially animated on the subject of Elvis Presley, standing in front of a mirror with a curled lip he's probably been practicing since 1956, and paraphrasing British writer Ray Connolly: "When Elvis died, it wasn't just that the man had died, but the reflection in the mirror had died as well."
