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Re-reading several times I have concluded there is nothing I can change, I read the rules and also that the great thing about WIKI is that it does not have to be 'perfect writing we all aren't scholars". Looking at another artist whom I admire Billy Bob Thornton it describes his ' behavior's and the fact that he is scared of " Antique Furniture and even mentions someone elses name.
Is this relevent? True? Verifiable? This is me, below local searches will confirm, quotes of " he's a genius " were taken out, now how about Jaco Pastorius? We love and respect him, so anything goes, it goes to show you that when youn are nobody you are nobody which changes the rules, can we not make wiki this, fairness? I think that is the goal here, factual, simple information, I myself will keep a good lookout for ' self promotional web-sites here" its anoying there is enough of that already. This is basic information to be found by press that soemtimes cantacts me about trivial inofrmation that they can find and get all the background they need.
Can someone with good explanation tell me what is wrong with what is written?

'Billy Yeager

Bio

Billy Yeager was born in Miami Florida September 6, 1957 to Raymond Carl Yeager and Gaile Kennedy. Billy's father, Ray Yeager was a Recording Artist who recorded with the MGM label in Nashville and performed at The Grand Ole Oprey in 1965. Ray Yeagers sister, Bunny Yeager became one of the most recognised Pin-Up Models from the 1950's who also discovered and photographed pin-up Model Betty Page.

Overview

Billy Yeager is the independent filmmaker/ musician who has recorded with artist such as Inner Circle Reggae Band, Wild Cherry, Ira Sullivan, Jaco Pastorius. He has produced 2 feature films "Jimmy's Story" a self- made documentary that Billy produced by taking video footage that spans 23 years of his own life and editing it into a feature length film. His 2 feature film "A Perfect Song" Billy wrote, produced, directed, acted and composed all of the music for the films soundtrack.
Jimmy's Story has won 5 Awards * "Best Documentary" at Palm Beach International Film Festival 2003 and 4 Awards at The Dahlonega International Film Festival 2003 including * Best first feature

Best documentary* Best Folk Film* Best Feature Doc.

Music

Billy Yeager grew up on movie film sets in the early 1960's watching his father and famous aunt Bunny Yeager filming movies at the Luke Moberly Studios based in Davie Florida. It was here that he began to follow in hs fathers footsteps and become a musician.
Billy is a self taught musician who learned how to play his fathers homemade guitar( made out of a dresser drawer) at 6 years old. By the time he was 15 he learned how to play every instrument. He produced, recorded and marketed his first 2 albums "Whats it Gonna Take" (1983) and "Be My Valentine" (1985). Both albums only gained him local noriety and his songs won several Nationwide Song contests such as Star Search and Miller High Lifes Rock to Riches Talent Search. It was 18 years later that Billy met with Grammy Award Winner Bruce Hornsby who was given a demo tape of Billy's 4 track recordings and put Billy in contact him with his manager ( at that time) Tim Neece. Tim Neece managed to get a developement deal with Capitol Records. By this time Billy had over 700 songs he had written and recorded on an old 4- track Fostex recorder. Capitol Records fronted the artist 5000.00 to produce a better sounding demo. In 1992 Capitol Records turned the tapes down as did also all the other Record Labels. Prior to this for 20 years Billy had already been submitting his music to the Record Labels and had collected 100's of rejection letters and was filming his life of his struggle to get signed to a recording contract since 1981. He continued writing, submitting and being rejected for the next 5 years.
It was one night while watching the movie Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman that inspired Billy to organize and plan an elaborate scheme and become someone else, that someone would be "Jimmy Story" the "supposed" Long lost son of Jimi Hendrix.

The Hoax

Billy began forging evidence and creating bogus papers, documents, birth certificates, lost Hendrix Recordings,hand written notes and lyrics by Jimi Hendrix.He placed advertisements in well known music magazines such as Rolling Stone where he submitted an ad for a 100,000.00 Reward for the "where abouts" of Jimmy Story The Long Lost Son of Jimi Hendrix. This caught the attention of other well known publications and consiquently word spread about the news of Jimi Hendrix's illegitamte son. For 1 full year Billy dressed up in elaborate costumes talked with a slur and appeared at events, interviews ,performing and promoting himself also on the phone as his own manager "Mark Smith".
The "Jimmy Story" story eventually was publisised nationwide and Billy recieved the attention he had been struggling to recieve for 23 years.

The Jimmy Story> Story

Jimi Hendrix had an affair with Jimmy Story's mother " Sunshine Story " who had a child ( Jimmy) and feared for her life and spent years hiding and not telling her son who his famous father was. She did this because she believed that Jimi Hendrix was murdered and people were out to get her to find the "lost Bolero tapes " rare lost recordings that Billy had read about in underground publications. To make sure the press beleived the murder conspiracy story, tapes, music,lyrics written on napkins and other items left by hendrix Billy became a certifed graphologists having all his documents "certified". He then posed as his own manager and attorney and marketed the story and submitted the items for consideration along with the certified "hand writting analisis" ( Graphologist Steven Grimes)/Billy Yeager . He also dyed his skin permanatly black using Rit Clothes dye in the bathtub for permanant results.

Filmmaker

Billy filmed the Jimi Hendrix hoax for 1 year with cameras as he had been filming his life all along. For the next 4 years Billy filmed, edited, re-edited and then sent the raw footage of his life story to Kevin Smith who wrote and directed Clerks, Chasing Amy, and Dogma. Kevin recomened that John Pierson ( respected film rep for Spike Lee, Michael Moore, Richard Linklater) watch the footage and John decied to feature the story of the making of the film itself on Split Screen on the Bravo and The Independent Film Channel. In 1997 just before The Blair Witch Project was accepted into Sundance and realeased by Artisan Distribution the creators and director of The Blair Witch Project> "Dan Myrick" took an interest in Billy's homemade documentrary film. The Blair Witch team edited a version and it was submitted to Sundance Film Festival in 1999 but was rejected. Billy kept filming 4 more years adding to his story about music,success,desire,determination,fame,and edited it into a heart felt story about his father and son relationship. Ray Yeager was opperated on for cancer in the throat from 40 years of smoking yet continued to do interviews for the film but passed away in 2002. Billy finished the film in it's entirety and the final edited version was finished in 2005.
Billy Yeager then put his efforts into filmmaking and he now writes, produces, directs and acts in his own films. He currently lives in Lake Worth Florida where he continues to write and record music, teaches acting and travels to exotic locations for his films. A Perfect Song premiered at The Delray Beach Film Festival in 2006.