Charitable Organization featured in the 1997 LA Music Awards
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Program Aids More Than Rock Stars
May 5, 2002 | STEVE HOCHMAN
Who in the music world is most likely to need help with substance abuse problems? Singers in rock bands with alcohol or heroin addictions are the most prevalent, according to breakdowns of people helped into treatment programs by the Musicians Assistance Program, which is marking its 10th anniversary. That’s no surprise, given rock singers’ issues with ego and the pressures of the spotlight.
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Program Aids More Than Rock Stars
May 5, 2002 | STEVE HOCHMAN
Who in the music world is most likely to need help with substance abuse problems? Singers in rock bands with alcohol or heroin addictions are the most prevalent, according to breakdowns of people helped into treatment programs by the Musicians Assistance Program, which is marking its 10th anniversary. That’s no surprise, given rock singers’ issues with ego and the pressures of the spotlight.
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Grammy Charity to Lose Part of Funding
February 21, 2000 | CHUCK PHILIPS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The music industry has decided to redirect a large portion of its annual charitable contribution from the Grammy organization to Musicians’ Assistance Program, a tiny Hollywood-based charity that has had greater success in helping artists tackle substance abuse problems. The action follows months of behind-the-scenes wrangling, pitting the struggling Hollywood charity against Grammy chief C. Michael Greene, one of the most powerful and controversial figures in the record business.
BUSINESS
Grammy Charity to Lose Part of Funding
February 21, 2000 | CHUCK PHILIPS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The music industry has decided to redirect a large portion of its annual charitable contribution from the Grammy organization to Musicians’ Assistance Program, a tiny Hollywood-based charity that has had greater success in helping artists tackle substance abuse problems. The action follows months of behind-the-scenes wrangling, pitting the struggling Hollywood charity against Grammy chief C. Michael Greene, one of the most powerful and controversial figures in the record business.
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Benefit to Honor Songwriter Paul Williams
July 15, 1998
A tribute to award-winning songwriter Paul Williams is slated for Aug. 15 at Spaceland, 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles. The event will feature performances by the Oscar and Grammy Award winner as well as by the Wondermints, the Negro Problem, the Mello Cads and others performing their renditions of Williams’ songs. Net proceeds from the show will benefit the Musicians’ Assistance Program, a drug and alcohol recovery organization for music industry professionals. Tickets are $10 at the door.
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Quick Takes
February 24, 1996 | SHAUNA SNOW, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation’s press
Kudos: Bob Hope will receive the 1996 Naval Heritage Award, established in 1995 “to honor non-veterans who have distinguished themselves through their contribution to America’s naval and maritime heritage,” during ceremonies tonight at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda. . . .
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Buddy Arnold, 77; Sax Player Founded Drug Program for Musicians
November 11, 2003 | Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer
Buddy Arnold, a jazz saxophonist and recovering heroin addict who spent years helping musicians and other music industry professionals kick their addictions through his nonprofit drug and alcohol treatment program, has died. He was 77. Arnold, co-founder of the Hollywood-based Musicians’ Assistance Program, died Sunday of complications from open-heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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Pop Date Book
June 17, 1999 | RICHARD CROMELIN
Paul Simon will follow his two concerts with Bob Dylan with his own show at the House of Blues on Wednesday. Tickets go on sale Saturday at noon and will be available only at the West Hollywood club’s box office. There is a four-ticket limit per person. . . . Tickets go on sale Saturday for Iron Maiden’s show at the Greek Theatre on July 30. . . . Tickets will be available today for the bill of Flaming Lips, above, Sebadoh and Robyn Hitchcock on Aug. 1 at the Palace. . . .
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Smoke-filled Rooms
April 6, 1997
A hearty “Bravo!” for the discreet interventions that the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences provided for music industry leaders with drug problems during the week of the Grammy Awards (Pop Eye, March 23). Another hearty “Bravo!” for the nonprofit Musicians’ Assistance Program, which has been provided with a $2-million grant from the Recording Industry Assn. of America for training seminars for record company personnel, again to focus on drugs. But a major drug has unfortunately been left out of those worthwhile projects: nicotine.
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Show to benefit musicians’ fund
April 15, 2005 | Steve Hochman, Special to The Times
After a series of changes, including the deaths of founders Buddy and Carol Arnold and a merger with the Recording Academy’s MusiCares wing, the Musicians Assistance Program — created to help musicians who have substance abuse problems — is set for a celebration.