I’m infinitely fascinated by the stories of people who can spot and nurture talent within people who can change the game.

Whether it’s Stacy Peralta organizing the Bones Brigade who went on to change to face of skateboarding, to Rick Rubin who used his label, Def Jam Records, to break the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, LL Cool J and countless others into the mainstream, I want to understand what they saw that no one else did. How did they mentor them out of obscurity and onto the worlds stage?

There are clearly elements of those stories that touch the work that I do. I mean, what did John Doerr see in Jeff Bezos? Or Fred see in Perry Chen? They saw something the rest of us missed.

WIth that as the backdrop, I wanted to surface this little Kickstarter project documenting the life of Danny Fields. From the campaign:

Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and “culture” of the late 20th century: working for the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed, Nico, Judy Collins and managing groundbreaking artists like the Stooges, the MC5 and the Ramones. Danny Says follows Fields from Phi Beta Kappa whiz-kid, to Harvard Law dropout, to the Warhol Silver Factory, to Director of Publicity at Elektra Records, to “punk pioneer” and beyond. Danny’s taste and opinion, once deemed defiant and radical, has turned out to have been prescient.Danny Says is a story of marginal turning mainstream, avant garde turning prophetic, as Fields looks to the next generation.

From defiant and radical to prescient and prophetic. 

This is a story I’m fascinated to hear. WIth 11 days left they’re about $4,000 short of their goal. If you’re interested in this stuff too, you should join me in backing this project so we can hear what Danny Says.