Marcos Valle is even radder...
Woimsah
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SO rad.
Pretty crazy story that I just stumbled upon. Did everyone already know this?!?!
The way Marcos Valle tells it, Marlon Brando had been playing the bongos all night, very badly. Quincy Jones tried to intercede, and Rock Hudson and Vincent Price didn't look too pleased, either. So when a drunken Brando later made a pass at Valle's wife she was his type, see, with long, brown hair he saw red. Actually, he didn't see anything at all, because they were about to leave and his back was to the door. But when Anna Maria told him that Brando had just mauled her, and he turned round to find the actor reaching out towards her hair again, Valle threw a punch. Whether Marlon went down he doesn't know, because a crowd of stars closed in to stop the fight and in any case, he was out of there.
The occasion was a Hollywood party in the bossa nova years of the mid-Sixties, when Marcos Valle currently provider of retro Brazilian grooves to the international clubbing fraternity was touring with Sergio Mendes and Brasil 65. This was just before Valle wrote his big hit "Summer Samba".
Pretty crazy story that I just stumbled upon. Did everyone already know this?!?!
The way Marcos Valle tells it, Marlon Brando had been playing the bongos all night, very badly. Quincy Jones tried to intercede, and Rock Hudson and Vincent Price didn't look too pleased, either. So when a drunken Brando later made a pass at Valle's wife she was his type, see, with long, brown hair he saw red. Actually, he didn't see anything at all, because they were about to leave and his back was to the door. But when Anna Maria told him that Brando had just mauled her, and he turned round to find the actor reaching out towards her hair again, Valle threw a punch. Whether Marlon went down he doesn't know, because a crowd of stars closed in to stop the fight and in any case, he was out of there.
The occasion was a Hollywood party in the bossa nova years of the mid-Sixties, when Marcos Valle currently provider of retro Brazilian grooves to the international clubbing fraternity was touring with Sergio Mendes and Brasil 65. This was just before Valle wrote his big hit "Summer Samba".
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Bad bongo playing should never go unpunished,
He was with his third wife at the time, nice guy who was friendly and made time for a gringo, also seemed to enjoy the red wine that we had that evening...LOL!
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Go and buy his new album "Estatica" on Far Out. Easily the best album he's done for them so far IMO and just as enjoyable as his 70s output. The cover for it is pretty similar to Vento Sul's as well.