BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Goings On//goingson.co//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:GoingsOn — Coachella Valley — Indian Wells X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:56cd21c3155ae643@goingson.co DTSTAMP:20261110T052418Z DTSTART:20261111T020000Z DTEND:20261111T030000Z SUMMARY:Slim Man DESCRIPTION:Copied from Slim Man's Official Website \\(www.slimman.com\\)\n \nSlim's Bio\n\nSlim Man's Background\n\nSlim Man was born a long time ago . How long? Real long. He started off as Slim Boy\, and later became Slim Man.\n\nBut seriously\, folks...Slim's hometown is Baltimore\, MD. His fir st musical memory? His Dad\, the Slim Poppa\, took him to see a movie "The Five Pennies"\, starring Danny Kaye and...Louis Armstrong. When Young Sli m saw Louis sing and play\, Slim Boy decided\, at the tender age of five\, that that was his Life's Calling.\n\nYoung Slim studied trumpet for ten y ears\, and taught himself how to play piano and guitar as well. Slim Boy's first gig? He was in fifth grade\, and he played guitar and sang a few Be atles songs for the sixth grade graduation. Since that time\, he has worke d himself up from nothing\, to a case of extreme poverty.\n\nWhile in his teens\, Slim Dude kept studying music\, at Peabody \\(a school for mostly classical music\, where Slim studied piano\, theory\, and harmony\\)\, and privately\, studying singing\, and jazz piano.\n\nHis First Big Break cam e when he went on a trip to NYC to meet a publisher who expressed some int erest in Slim's Songs. When Young Slim got to NYC\, he found out that the publisher dude had other interests in mind\, and left the meeting disguste d yet determined. He went to a phone booth and started calling publishers. \n\nA few hours later\, he was in the office of Roxanne Gordy\, Motown pub lishing executive and niece of the famous Berry Gordy. Motown eventually s igned Slim Man as a songwriter\, and one of the first tunes he wrote made it onto Angela Bofill's first CD\, "Angie".\n\nBased on the success of tha t CD\, Motown offered Slim Dude a recording contract. Slim Man spent the n ext year writing\, arranging and producing a CD that is very similar in st yle and substance to his current material. Slim Man recorded the CD with l egendary music producer Carl Griffin\, a guy who has discovered artists fr om Evelyn "Champagne" King to Diana Krall.\n\nWith the album finished\, Sl im Man was waiting for a release date when he was invited to a party for S tevie Wonder's new CD\, "The Secret Life of Plants". The party was at the Bronx Botanical Gardens\, and it was a lavish affair. Slim Man actually me t and conversed with Stevie\, who had helped Young Slim on his Big Motown Debut.\n\nLater on\, while in the men's room\, a Motown executive informed Slim Man that the vice president in charge of Slim's CD had been fired\, and all of his projects \\(including Slim's Debut Album\\) had been put on the\n\nshelf. AARRGGHH!\n\nUndaunted\, Slim decided to get out of his con tract with Motown. He started writing rock songs\, something Motown had no use for\, and was later released by Motown. But\, as luck would have it\, there was a label downstairs from Motown's NYC office\, a label called "S tiff Records". Stiff had Ian Dury\, Lena Lovich\, and a bunch of other ecc entric artists on their roster\, and Stiff expressed interest in the Slim Songs\, and named the project...BootCamp.\n\nBootCamp had considerable suc cess. It was one of the first bands on MTV. They did shows with the B-52s\ , Squeeze\, Split Enz\, The Tubes\, and a bunch of other bands. But most r ock bands don't stay together long. BootCamp was no exception\, and they d isbanded in 1986.\n\nEnter the Marlboro Man.\n\nAfter the break-up of Boot Camp\, Slim Man was asked by Carl Griffin\, who was then working for Marlb oro\, to organize and MC nationwide country music talent contests sponsore d by Marlboro. The contest was a Big Deal--$50\,000.00 and a contract with producer Barry Beckett\, a Big Shot who'd worked with Bob Dylan\, Alabama \, Hank Williams\, Jr.\, and lots of others.\n\nAnd during the Marlboro Co untry Music Contest\, Slim Man got his name.\n\nAfter one of the very firs t contests\, at the end of the final night\, Slim Man \\(who had been know n as "Tim Camp"\, a shortened version of his real name "Timothy Camponesch i"\\) announced the Big Winner. Well\, much to everyone's surprise\, there were no fistfights or bar-room brawls\, which is pretty incredible becaus e the prize was so big\, and lots of the bands were bitter rivals.\n\nHowe ver\, the next day\, one of the losing bands tracked Slim Man back to his hotel and were waiting in the lobby. They were pissed off about losing. Sl im Man explained to The Losers that he had nothing to do with the judging\ , just the MC-ing and organizing\, and the band left.\n\nSo Tim Camp decid ed he needed a nickname\, something country and something appropriate for a talent contest. The name? Slim Chance. And that's what he called himself during the contest. Slim Chance. During the years it changed into Slim Ma n\, and a Name Was Born.\n\nSlim's Big Discovery during the Marlboro conte st? Ronnie Dunn\, who later joined Kix Brooks to form the Dynamic Duo\, Br ooks and Dunn.\n\nAfter the Marlboro Contest ran its course\, Slim Man sta rted writing and producing songs featuring a rock singer named Brian Jack. Slim wrote all the songs\, produced all the songs\, and brought in Brian to sing the songs. He put together a CD featuring Brian Jack\, and\, throu gh Slim's attorney\, the CD got the attention of legendary manager Dee Ant hony\, a guy who had managed everyone from Peter Frampton\, J. Geils Band\ , to Basia.\n\nDee Anthony's two daughters were VPs of Epic and SONY recor ds\, and Brian got a contract with Epic. Except Brian told them that he ha d written all the songs\, and basically cut Slim Man out of the deal. When SONY took Brian into the studio to write some songs\, they were disappoin ted. Brian Jack was not a songwriter. After 4 tunes\, they dropped him.\n\ nWhat now? Slim took some of the songs he had written for Brian\, and kept the original Slim Man vocals \\(sung low and slow\\)\, added a few new tu nes and...\n\nEnd of the Rainbow was born. The very first Slim Man CD! Sli m Man worked hard and long on the CD and the subsequent follow-up. Slim Ma n found a manufacturer to press the CD. Slim found a radio promoter\, a gu y out of Nashville\, who took the first single "Faith in Us" to the Top Te n.\n\nSlim Man found a nationwide distributor for the CD. And then Slim ma n started touring\, recording\, and producing and...he hasn't stopped yet! LOCATION:Vicky's of Santa Fe\, 45-100 Club Dr\, Indian Wells URL:https://www.goingson.co/coachella/indian-wells/vickys-of-santa-fe/slim- man-2026-11-10?utm_source=ics&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR