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Interviews:
- Jello Biafra is a self-described "cultural terrorist" who
debuted as singer for the punk band Dead Kennedys in 1978. He is also
a songwriter, spoken word activist and collage artist. See also:
Search & Destroy and Pranks!
- In the late '50s, comedienne Rusty Warren began a lifelong
career of challenging repressive American attitudes toward sex and women.
- Chris Long is a British painter and illustrator.
- In 1957 Ken Nordine recorded the
first of four pioneering Word Jazz albums. In his rich, soothing baritone
voice he recited "insane stories". Additionally, for the past 50 years
Ken Nordine has had a successful career in commercial radio and television,
having done advertisements, radio shows, plus television appearances
and public performances.
- Candi Strecker is the publisher of Sidney Suppey's Quarterly
and Confused Pet Monthly, an eclectic zine
about her personal obsessions.
- Ken Sitz is a San Francisco artist working with "language,
diagrammatical texts and extramusical sound."
- In 1949 the first all-music TV program featured Korla Pandit
playing the Hammond organ, wearing a bejeweled white turban. Besides
pioneering percussion effects and technical innovations in the organ
itself, he produced "exotic and mystic, moody, hypnotic music as gentle
as drifting lotus blossoms, as savage as jungle drums."
- Dean Santomieri is a musician, filmmaker and electronic music
composer currently associated with the California College of Arts and
Crafts.
- Robert A. Moog, PhD is an early
synthesizer pioneer; the legendary analog Minimoog synthesizer, which
in 1971 changed the face of rock music, bears his name.
- One of the foremost collectors of comedy records in the U.S. is Reverend
Warren Debenham, a Bay Area minister with more than 10,000 comedy
LPs, 45s, 78s and CDs.
- Juan Garcia Esquivel produced some
of the most innovative stereo recordings of the '50s and '60s. Throughout
a 50 year career, Esquivel also produced music for numerous radio and
TV shows, live shows, and films, both in North and Central America.
- The legendary five-octave vocalist Yma Sumac has been named
as an influence by Diamanda Galas, Nina
Hagen, Kate Pierson and many others. Promoted in the '50s as an Inca
princess directly descended from Atahualpa, the last emperor of the
Incan empire, Yma Sumac enjoyed international fame from the '50s through
the '60s. Retiring in the '70s, an appreciation for her music has encouraged
Ms. Sumac to once again take up performing for audiences.
- O. Rodger Harris has been collecting and selling records for
the past two decades. In the late '50s, musical archaeologist Elisabeth
Waldo and her orchestra produced their first LP, Rites of the
Pagan. She also created several TV documentary scores and is now
producing a series of four videos.
- Video artist, musician, and interior designer Ian Hartley
was a prime mover in the original '70s Australian punk rock scene.
- Al Ennis has been collecting records for the past 25 years.
Co-author of The Roots & Rhythm Guide to Rock, Al is currently
writing a history of rockabilly.
- In 1955-6 Bebe and Louis Barron collaborated to create the
ground breaking Forbidden Planet soundtrack--the first to use
electronic sounds created by self-destructing circuits, rather than
conventional orchestration.
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