Shep Gordon - Supermensch

00:00 | Trailer
02:44 Brian’s thoughts on the episode
05:32 Brian’s introduction
06:10 Shep brought Alice Cooper to London to get banned by involving the media in shock tactics
17:05 Alice Cooper’s first gig at Wembley Stadium in early 1970s
18:57 Shep explains why he has never signed a contract with any of the artists he has represented
21:55 Safe doesn’t work in marketing, you need to be a showman, hence some mad ideas
36:36 How he conceived the idea of the Teddy Prendercast women-only shows
39:19 Selling drugs to Jimmy Hendrix and the Chambers Brothers got Shep into the music business
43:59 Drugs, alcohol and free love were all fun and games with no appreciation of the consequences
48:16 Ambition which drives young artists to become famous could ultimately kill them
55:29 How Shep deals with his overwhelming self-worth issues
1:06:58 At Roy Choi book signing Shep meets Anthony Bourdain which leads to his own book
1:08:50 Doing the book was revelatory, looking at his childhood and relationship with women
1:16:20 Shep’s regard for Mr Roger for showing him the path to being happy
1:29:31 Creating the celebrity chefs
1:36:47 The chef business was like the Chitlin’ Circuit
1:42:19 When Shep served Yak tea to the Dalai Lama
1:52:03 Shep’s life now, in Maui, serving others and sharing his life
1:54:59 His take on the recent Weinstein phenomena in the entertainment industry
2:summing up.