Talk:Fillmore Slim

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Track listings sourced directly from recordings, and posted by The Archivist — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.183.19 (talk) 04:16, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Notability? And smells like "fake news."
"The Legend Of Fillmore Slim:" In his own mind. He is well known in the Bay Area for being "a character." Every neighborhood has one. He sometimes played covers in no-cover dives. A fun and chronic if not obsessive self-promoter. His records never charted, seemingly not even close. Got a record deal with Fedora Records, who specialize in old no-name bluesmen for history and posterity. Had other non-notable albums published. Won a local blues club "award." Took selfies and published them online. Empty claims about an aborted movie. Was interviewed in the blaxploitation "comic" movie American Pimp, trailer: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57x7g7. Posted unbearable near-gibberish videos (28 views on one) on YouTube. Self-published a 500 page auto-biography (very mixed reviews). Five years prison times for being a fraud (synonyms: · fake · sham · pretender · hoodwinker · masquerader · trickster · phony) (for a fake passport) and another time as a pimp. Are we to believe his self-promotions? Perhaps our authors just forgot to mention the prison time(s), etc? This wiki article smells like fake news.

https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Two-Degrees-From-Fillmore-Slim-2741975.php "August 27, 2000 ....We walked into the dim, almost empty club. Fillmore had just arrived on stage...."

Online search: big, impressive flashy wrapper. Contents? I don't think they meed wiki standards. Reliable sources? I don't think they meed wiki standards. (And highly contradictory.) Accomplishments? A)Similar to most good club blues musicians. B)Created local self-celebrity and mythology.

I nominate this article for deletion. (Even if it were all true, where's the beef?) A long lifetime of flamboyance and self promotion may be enough to establish self-verifying legends, and for the US presidency, but not Wikipedia. Does anybody have any reasoning to the contrary? Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:1149:5686:CAC8:DAB6 (talk) 21:01, 16 September 2018 (UTC)


 * While all of the above seems obvious with a google search, (These facts are not hidden, except in this article,) I think some more links are appropriate.


 * https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/pimps-and-players/Content?oid=2142607 Aug 8 2001   ... In 1979 the law caught up with Slim, and he was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary in Texarkana, Texas.   ....Slim returned to jail several times during the Reagan years;...


 * https://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Fillmore-Slim-Yoshi-s-show-look-back-on-the-fast-5233812.php   Fillmore Slim, Yoshi's show look back on the fast times - SFGate  Feb 16, 2014 - Fillmore Slim gave up the pimping game a third of a century ago, although not entirely by choice. His retirement was forced by a five-year stint  in the Federal Correctional Institution at Texarkana, Texas, where he was sent for attempting to fly to France on a forged passport  ...  In fact, Snoop Dogg signed on in 2011 to play him in a Hollywood biopic titled "The Legend of Fillmore Slim," but subsequently dropped out.  .... The movie is presently "on hold," Fillmore Slim says. ....  Some of Fillmore Slim's young fans in the hip-hop community buy his CDs, the singer says, "not for the blues" but "to have me autograph 'em.   .....  The show, Elliott explains, "is all about our legacy. We're talking about the black exploitation films, the soundtracks, the lifestyle.  ....


 * https://www.alibris.co.uk/Blues-Man-Mack-How-I-Conquered-the-Stage-and-the-Streets-O-G-Fillmore-Slim/book/37155300


 * https://www.createspace.com/ "Createspace Independent Publishing Platform"   An Amazon company. "Independent publishing" "Publish your words, your way."


 * http://www.publishingsolo.com/createspace-independent-publishing-platform/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CFCE:1EE0:1149:5686:CAC8:DAB6 (talk) 15:34, 18 September 2018 (UTC)