From The Desk Of Don Fleming: “Our Man Flint”

Even if you don’t know Don Fleming by name, chances are you own a ton of records he’s helped make. As a producer, he’s collaborated with the likes of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub, Screaming Trees, the Posies and Hole, to name just a handful. He works for the Alan Lomax Archive and has done archival work for the estates of Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey and others. He’s fronted such groups as the Velvet Monkeys, B.A.L.L. and Gumball and was a member of the band that provided the music to 1994 Beatles biopic Backbeat. Fleming also runs the Instant Mayhem label, which recently reissued the Velvet Monkeys’ 1982 debut Everything Is Right and is about to release the solo Don Fleming 4, which features Kim Gordon, Julie Cafritz and R. Stevie Moore. If all that weren’t enough, Fleming is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.

Fleming: Our Man Flint and In Like Flint came out in 1966 and 1967, respectively. James Coburn is the coolest actor ever, and he nailed it in this parody of the James Bond flicks. The dude can talk to dolphins! He’s probably at his best in the films The Great Escape (1963) and A Fistful Of Dynamite (1971), but I still love his portrayal of Derek Flint. And the Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks to both Flint flicks are super groovy.

Video after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLm6uEcXuBI