Me!! Me!! Me!!

Damn, now I have to think of something cool to ask...I'm looking at my poster from their '97 Fillmore right now...that's what's over my desk.

Damn...that's cool.

A.L.

Homer... was it '73 or '74 when I opened the UCSF Chancellor's conference room for a photo shoot for the Residents? Those were the days when you and Jay still needed your day jobs. After that shoot I actually lost mine. Do you have any idea what happened to those pix? Seems like I got a Meet the Residents album out of it... or maybe a Beefheartish Crawdad Mask Replica kind of thing... no in fact I had both albums and may have paid US dollars for one or the other... anyway, in 1978 we had the drummer for a Seattle band called the Rude Boys house-sitting for the summer at our little place in San Anselmo (the neighbors were pleased, he was your basic skinhead drummer) and in compensation for this service I gave him my Residents album collection because he was an enormous fan. You had a big following in the Pacific northwest in those days. Thinking about the Residents I'm reminded of that line about bloggers that paraphrases Warhol: "Everyone will be famous to 15 people." Well you've been famous to me for the last 30 years or so and I imagine the music remains as inaccessible as I always found it to be. I'm proud to have made the acquaintance of artists like you, and wish you another 30 years of success.
Frank Paynter

Well that's certainly specific and laudatory Frank - very cool - I'm surprised that more of our blogsters aren't Residents fans. or maybe they are just shy.

I remember now... the shoot in question was for Third Reich and Roll, so it must have been in 75 or early 76, and I've located one picture on the web that came from it...
Chancellor Sooy's Conference Table

Hi Homer,

My question is that now Molly Harvey has won over our hearts and minds with wonderful performances on Demons Dance Alone, will The Residents continue to work with her in the future?

happy 30th anniversary btw!

The Residents have enjoyed a fruitful career thus far, with mixed success and various triumphs and failures. Being only human (their own mortality echoing through some of their work) how long do they think they have left in them? (If they began when they were twenty they would now be fifty years old, those are long teeth in the music industry... will they achieve everything they want?)

Homer, Are "The Residents" having a mid-life crisis breakdown?!!! From the liner notes and the music on the new album, it gives me this vibe. But don't get me wrong...it is the most incredible of works they have done since FREAKSHOW.Thanks, Bryan G.