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Todd Rundgren/John Mendelsohn Todd Rundgren скачать mp3: http://music.allofmp3.com/r2/Todd_Rundgren/Something_-_Anything__(Disc_1)/group_5611/album_6/albref_17/mcatalog.shtml Френк Заппа. A visual documentary by miles 1966: 3-29 МАЯ Лос-Анджелес. Совместное с Velvet Undergraund and Nico участие в "разогреве" публики перед Andy Warhol`s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Толпа с восторгом встречает The Mothers и освистывает Вельвет. Мрачные нью-йоркские одежды вельветовцев чужеродны в среде калифорнийских прибамбасов. На первом представлении присутствуют The Byrds, Jim Morrison (тогда еще слушатель UCLA Film Scool), Sonny & Cher и Mama Cass. Lou Reed буквально взрывается при упоминании о Заппе: "Это, наверное, самый бездарный человек которого я слышал в своей жизни. Этот сдвоенный бит, претенциозность, академизм и неспособность играть рок-н-ролл выдают в нем неудачника. Он пытается восполнять это своим чудным одеянием. Он страдает комплексом неполноценности и в этом он прав". Это вынудило и Фрэнка упомянуть Вельвет на сцене: "Эти ребята просто козлы!" Трудно представить, как бы Velvet и The Mothers ужились без драки, выступая в одной программе в течение месяца. Поэтому, правильным представляется решение местного шерифа закрыть клуб уже на третий день "объявления войны". Тем не менее, The Mothers еще раз играют с группой Вархола: ...который являл собой прообраз коммуны хиппи. Обитали там Miss Christine и Miss Sandra (в будущем = основатели GTO''s), Carl Franzoni и другие (http://dmskvo.chat.ru/second.htm). Alice Cooper site All about Miss Christine: "I met the GTOs at Cander''s for the first time. The GTOs were the first organized groupies and GTO stood for many things: Girls Together Outrageously, Girls Together Occasionally, Girls Together Only, and Girls Together Often. The five or six of them, Miss Christine, Miss Pamela, Suzi Cream Cheese, and Miss Lucy had started a rock band, but they were more of a mixed-media event than musicians. People just got off on them. They were a trip to be with. At the time we met, one of them was testing how far she could abuse her body with drugs. There was also a boyfriend who took so much amphetamine his bones had disolved, and he slumped in chairs like a rolled sock. Miss Pamela was a smiling open-faced girl who looked just like Ginger Rogers. I met Miss Christine, the GTO I was to fall madly in love with, across a bowl of shared matzoh ball soup. She was one of the skinniest girls I ever met, and she made me look muscular. When she teased out her frizzy, mousy-brown hair, she looked like a used Q-Tip."... GTO GTO Sandra''s Story: Insomniac, a now-defunct coffee shop in Hermosa Beach. She also frequented (with Miss Christine) a similar place called the Intangible Tangerine, where, she says, "everybody was insane." She''s from San Pedro, "where everybody cruises." She went to New York when Miss Christine moved in with Tony Melendy, a Santa Monica sculptor. For a while she was in art school somewhere, and finally she found her way to Tom Mix''s old house in Laurel Canyon. At that time, Carl Orestes Franzoni ("he is freaky right down to his toenails," Zappa said on the liner notes of Freak Out) was living there in one of LA''s wilder communes. (The house rents for $700 a month and later Zappa moved in, gathering his own commune to supplant that of Franzoni''s.) Miss Christine had been reunited with Sandra by now and they lived together in the vault in the basement of the house (right next to the bowling alley.) Her "fave raves" are Bob Dylan and Calvin (who is the artist Zappa uses for all advertising and album cover art). Rolling Stone - February 15, 1969 According to Frank Zappa, are not lesbians; they are merely girls who happen to like other girls'' company."Girls don''t show the emotions like they should," one of the girls said. "When I say: ''Sandra, you have the most beautiful breasts in the whole world,'' that''s not homosexual, it''s just what I feel. You know how it is when you don''t have a boyfriend and there''s a girl there to hold your hand, to kiss you, to say nice things to you. It''s so important.""We compliment each other. There are closer relationships between girls than boys."Miss Christine says: "This is Hollywood, and Hollywood''s Hollywood...but in Ohio, maybe they aren''t ready for this. We''re trying to spread our philosophy." Miss Christine''s Story: She, too was born in San Pedro of Yugoslav parents. She was a "sickly kid," she says, and had a "big complex about being skinny." (She is tall and lean, the type of girl who would have been called "beanpole" by her schoolmates.) "Pop music brought it all together for me socially," she said. "It brought people together, it gave me friends." She says she is the cold, cruel one in the group, but she''s not. She''s bright and quite outgoing. She met Zappa when he returned to LA from New York for a concert, when she was living in Franzoni''s commune. "We talk about groups a lot," she said. "That''s because it''s glamourous and because we''re very young. If you have a fave rave in a band, it''s like having a soldier in the war; you write him letters and you worry about him." When Zappa returned to LA for good, she became his housekeeper and governess to Moon Unit, Frank''s daughter. "Mercy and I sent the Velvet Underground a dozen roses with our pictures on the back," she said. "You can''t be subtle." Miss Christine loves clothing and makes all her own, which can only be described as junkshop harlequin. The night of our interview she was wearing a knitted patchwork jump suit in a hundred colors, colored pipe cleaners coiled into her frizzed character; not a bad description. Pamela''s Story: It started with Elvis, she said, when Elvis went "off to war" and she marked the days off one-by-one for two years on a calendar hanging in her bedroom. Later, she sent Paul McCartney a poem every day for several months. She also fell in love with Chris Hillman (Byrds), and once took him some soup. Still another time she "chased the Stones" and once banged on Mick Jagger''s hotel room door...and he said he was in the shower...and she kept on banging, so he came to the door and opened it and he was nude...and she ran down the hall. She is from Los Angeles (the San Fernando Valley) and grew up there with the "greaser groups." She studied acting for a while. Her fave rave is Nick St. Nicholas of Steppenwolf, and one side of their upcoming single (on the Bizarre label), is called "Ooo-Ooo Man," a song written about this blonde bass player she loves. (Nick doesn''t know about it.) Pamela has kept a diary reflecting her interest in groups and according to the Plaster Casters of Chicago, it''s beautiful. Pamela is blonde and fragile, yet hearty. Sandra''s Story: Sandra is a native Southern California and she joined "the scene" by hanging out at the Insomniac, a now-defunct coffee shop in Hermosa Beach. She also frequented (with Miss Christine) a similar place called the Intangible Tangerine, where, she says, "everybody was insane." She''s from San Pedro, "where everybody cruises." She went to New York when Miss Christine moved in with Tony Melendy, a Santa Monica sculptor. For a while she was in art school somewhere, and finally she found her way to Tom Mix''s old house in Laurel Canyon. At that time, Carl Orestes Franzoni ("he is freaky right down to his toenails," Zappa said on the liner notes of Freak Out) was living there in one of LA''s wilder communes. (The house rents for $700 a month and later Zappa moved in, gathering his own commune to supplant that of Franzoni''s.) Miss Christine had been reunited with Sandra by now and they lived together in the vault in the basement of the house (right next to the bowling alley.) Her "fave raves" are Bob Dylan and Calvin (who is the artist Zappa uses for all advertising and album cover art). Mercy''s Story:In 1967 she moved to Laguna Beach, traveling back and forth to S.F. and then to New York for five days in the fall of that year, finally returning to LA, where she now lives in room No. 229 of the Landmark Hotel (one of the motels where groups stay) with Miss Christine and Cinderella. Mercy is a heavy girl, with a predilection for loose-fitting clothing made from antique (sometimes rotting) cloth, boots, and black eye makeup looking as if it were applied with a canoe paddle. Sparky has always liked all music, she said, emphasis on all. Along with Sandra and some one named Miss Lucy they danced together at clubs (Cheetah, etc.), wearing diapers. They became known (to Frank Zappa) as the GTOs...and later Frank broadened the size of the group of dancers and introduced them as the Laurel Canyon Ballet Company. (They appeared with him at least twice: at the Shrine and Cheetah.) "Frank just saw us dancing, I guess," Sparky said. Sparky is small and dark and sexy. GTO''s GTO''s in NNBD | |||
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