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a night on weekdays, seven on the weekend. ‘So what are you complaining about?’ It made it
easier to look them in the eye and call their bluff.”
But it wasn’t long before another opportunity came knocking, when an attorney for one
of his bands who also represented Cameron asked Carr to help out the director in securing
rights to the songs he wanted for
Terminator.
“I really wasn’t sure what the movie was,” Carr recalls. “And I had absolutely no idea what I
was doing. But they couldn’t get anybody to return their calls, and I had all those contacts as a
manager. The lawyer told them I could pick up the phone and get anybody they want, which
was pretty much true. All of a sudden there was another way to make a living.”
RYAN CARR’S DAD
B
y now, Carr is in high demand as a music
supervisor and often has his pick of films
when he’s not tied up with Stone. He can’t
always secure the rights to every song a director
might envision, but he knows who to call, how
to negotiate, and how to solve the problem in
other ways.
Carr is especially proud of his work on
Stone’s
Natural Born Killers
, which had so
many unusual songs in unexpected places.
“Sometimes, you just sit back and marvel. I’d
have an idea that woke me up in the middle of
the night wondering if it might work, and the
next day we’d try it out and Oliver would love it.”
Working on
The Doors
was a trip down
memory lane for Carr; he worked with Val
Kilmer as the actor sang leads over the original
Doors’s master tracks, watching in the studio
Hollywood Reporter Billboard Film & TV Music Conference, 2006 / Oliver Stone’s Film World Trade Center.
From left: Craig Armstrong, composer; Oliver Stone, director; Budd Carr, music supervisor; and Tamara
Conniff, chief editor of
Billboard
magazine. (Getty Images)
Carr and Don Kirshner at the platinum-album
presentation for
Point of No Return
by Kansas in 1978
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Carr, Johnny Wilder, Jr., the lead singer of Heatwave
(“Boogie Nights”, “Always and Forever”), and
legendary producer Phil Ramone in a studio in
London, circa 1979