Who owns concrete blonde

What follows is an edited version of that conversation. A: I have had this shop here for seven years. Q: What made you interested in hair in the first place? A: Actually, it was my dad who got me into it in the first place. I had always been interested in hair, though. I always had a bit of a knack for it too, so that is what made my dad push me, I think.

I went through Barbies like we change underpants because I was always cutting their hair. I actually remember getting in trouble for it. I got so many Barbies, like my son collects Lego. Q: Hair dressing seems to be so much about relationships. We women, especially, seem to tell our stylists everything. Why do you think that is? A: That guard that you have up is let down, I guess, when someone touches you. My husband thinks it is weird we touch people for a living.

But, you know what, it is actually way more the men who talk, not the females. It is weird and guys, especially, are so loyal. I would say 30 per cent of my clientele is male and of that 30 per cent I bet I will still be cutting their hair in my 60s, whereas women seem to ebb and flow in who their stylist is. Q: What else have you learned about people in your role? A: What I have learned being a boss, as opposed to an employee, is that each one of my staff members collects a very specific clientele.

By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Filed under:. Pocket Flipboard Email. Photo: Eater Philly While it was funny to see the bassist from Concrete Blonde , Johnette Napolitano , try to fight local chef Jennifer Carroll over the name of her yet-to-materialize restaurant for the record, Jen would win , she also made serious allegations and threatened Carroll with legal action unless a fee was paid to her for use of the name.

Grid View. More From Eater Philly. Sign up for the newsletter Eater Philly Sign up for our newsletter. Thanks for signing up! She had finished most of the work by March but had doubts as to just how good it was until she began playing the tracks for some old associates: Jim Mankey, her key creative foil in Concrete Blonde, and his brother, Earle, a veteran record producer. And Earle mixed it and he liked it. Jim and Earle were my big brothers.

When Jim started asking me how I got certain sounds, I just swelled up. It meant the world, because they taught me. Napolitano said that she and Jim Mankey are back on good terms and co-producing an album for Los Illegals, a bilingual rock band from East L.

Jim is an incredible guitar player, a flamenco quality guitar player. Sometimes all I wanted was one note or a sound, and it was almost insulting to ask him to do that. Napolitano said that Moreland, unlike the stationary Mankey, carries some of the load generating onstage dynamism. The 18 months have brought personal changes as well.