We're excited to hear from you. Dannie Lynn is a walking manifestation of women empowerment, women believing in women, womenallowing other women to shine.
It's up to you. Dannie Lynn, I'd love to bring you back up here and have a conversation about all of this good stuff.Oh my gosh. That was so great.
- Jim was the aggressive salesman who could sell refrigerators to the Eskimos. - Dannie was always very even-keeled, just kind of mellowed him out and balanced him. And-- - They realized that sometimes, you know, there was music that had no chance to be on a record, so why don't we produce it ourselves and create a label?
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. So Dannie Stamp, the rocket scientist who was running Iridium had to call his Chinese partners and say, there will be no imprisonment of Motorolans.
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. And Dannie said, no, that's not OK.
As it was emerging. Because my dad and Dannie were-- I mean, they started this, what, Denver era, where they were getting all the latest European releases and having them brought over.
at the heart a love story. A love story about Jim and Dannie , a love story of the fans, and this really was done for the fans. I mean, it wouldn't have been done if it weren't for the fans.
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. In fact, when Dannie Stamp went to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is the most famous launch complex in the world.
Hi there. My name is Dannie Lynn. And I'm so excited to be here with you today, introducing my dear friend, Jessica.
Jessica, I'm so excited to have you here. I'm so excited to be here, Dannie Lynn. Thank you so much for making this possible.
And in an instant, that was diffused. And so to answer your question, Dannie , I would encourage women to really seek out other women, potentially women who are not
In the 1980s, partners Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher used Wax Trax, the Chicago-based record store and music label, to take a group of outsiders-- the punks, the drag queens, the disenfranchised youth-- on a journey through underground music and culture.
And it was very accidental and it was very serendipitous, that type of atmosphere where just things would happen and a lot of these-- the creative, the artists and Jim and Dannie would just go with it. You know, where things might be considered mistakes to some people, they just kind of let it blossom.
Do you want to-- Go ahead. Well, they were-- I think Jim and Dannie -- your dad was really good at marketing. Every record that got sent out from the label had a catalog sheet in it that people could order, so if somebody in Des Moines got this record,
They were just being creative and just creating art. So is part of the revival-- it kind of started shortly after Dannie passed away. There was the event at the Metro, and then later on you've had other events and a partnership with Vans.
There was-- And I think a lot of the artwork, too, on the records, that whole aesthetic-- that was totally appealing and that spread like crazy. One thing we try to hold on to-- you know, we're not my dad and Dannie in any of this stuff, but that's one thing that we're very careful about is keeping that same vibe and that honoring them and that whole-- they really paid very close attention to that.
They closed the doors. So knowing that, knowing how the documentary starts unearthing a lot of the relics at Dannie 's old home, this is a very personal thing.
That's about 45 in there. But I think a lot of people miss the fact that what they love about the label and the brand was Jim and Dannie and that Jim and Dannie --
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. Why the Russian proton rocket is the most reliable rocket in the world-- when they asked Dannie Stamp, the rocket guy at Iridium what rocket should we use,
Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story. And when I was interviewing him, I said, Dannie , that just doesn't sound right to me.
And in 1931, hers was the first case in American history in which the Supreme Court threw out a law on First Amendment grounds. Americans do have a right to oppose organized government. Dannie Martin, the man on the left here in the jail clothes, was a heroin addict and an alcoholic and a very clumsy bank robber who got caught red-handed and was sentenced to 33 years in federal prison,
when I started to not only share it but claim responsibility for my co-creation in that, and starting to do the inner work of who I was being, and more so who I wanted to be, that was the connection point when I started to make friends like Dannie Lynn Fountain, when I started to attract the right clients, when I started to grow an authentic community, when I started to get more and more
Let's just dive right in. Wax Trax-- when it first began as a store, before the label, when Jim and Dannie were just first starting out, could you tell us a bit more about what the music scene in Chicago was even like?
And then another key release was the Underworld release, which was still to this day one of the shining moments of the label. Yeah. So yeah. Then after Jim passed away and then Dannie really was kind of lost as far as kind of-- and we talk about this, just had no power in steering with TVT kind of in control, that's
That's about 45 in there. Right? Good answer. So when someone watches the documentary and they learn of Jim and Dannie 's legacy,
And he wrote a long series of--. Became an award-winning author of a series of vignettes of prison life for the San Francisco Chronicle until he wrote one that was critical of the prison warden and they lowered the boom. Dannie said quote, "I committed bank robbery and they put me in prison and that was right.