Rudolph Grey is a musician and the biographer of filmmaker

Ed Wood Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pulp novelist. In the 1950s, Wood directed several B movie, low-budget science fiction, crime and horror films that later became cult c ...

. As an electric guitarist, Grey has recorded and performed with

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, with

John Giorno John Giorno (December 4, 1936 – October 11, 2019) was an American performance poetry, poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experim ...

in the

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br>''Agamemon''
(1993), and under his own name. Grey has also as led and recorded with various ad hoc ensembles called The Blue Humans. His music draws on

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and

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. Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written ''Nightmare of Ecstasy'' (1992), a biography of

, the director of notoriously awful cult films.

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's film ''

'' was based on Grey's book. In 2001, Grey rediscovered a copy of Ed Wood's final feature-length film, '' Necromania'', which had been presumed to be lost, in a Los Angeles warehouse.New Yorker: Weird Love
/ref> In 2011, Grey produced a one-hour documentary called '' Dad Made Dirty Movies'', about the life and career of 1960s porn film producer Stephen Apostolof, detailing his co-productions with filmmaker

.
Elliott, Tim (2011-09-09). "Review: Dad Made Dirty Movies. smh.com.au.

Discography

Mars

Rudolph Grey

Blue Humans

Red Transistor

Recordings of sessions led by others

Bibliography

Published works include: * 1992: ''Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood Jr.'',

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, ; reprinted 1994, – Biography of

References

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