Subj : Re: The Mannequin Smiles
To   : STEVE KEMP
From : JIM STAAL
Date : Mon Sep 25 2000 03:57 am

-=> STEVE KEMP wrote to JIM STAAL <=-


 

 JS> Hey, thanks! Deep thoughts from the mind of Steve Kemp. I like it.

 SK> Why thank you. (curtsy) :-P

 SK> Rocco Flamefart a.t.U.D.C.I.J. was my solo performance art/noise music
 SK> project. I even played the Northern California Noise Fest and
 SK> Exposition many years ago. I utilized my couple of synths, an old C-64
 SK> for sequencing and samples, my drum machine and a theremin I put
 SK> together in college, among other items. I had some lighting and
 SK> projection equipment as well for general ambience and strangeness and
 SK> oft wore a gorilla suit with antennas on top of the head. :-P

 SK> Oh, in one production I hooked my theremin to a little powered toy
 SK> airplane which was in turn attached to a center pole by a string so
 SK> that it went around and around altering the theremin tone. While this
 SK> occurred I climbed a cheaply constructed Empire State Building like
 SK> King Kong and did the King Kong thing. Then some female friends shot me
 SK> with BB guns and I fell to Earth. A sample of "Oh no, it wasn't the
 SK> airplanes...it was beauty killed the beast" (the final line in the
 SK> original King Kong) was then played.

Mercy! Quite a bit more live stage production than I have ever attempted. :-)
(Psst...BTW, what's a 'theremin'?) You must have had a knack.

 
 SK> All of my equipment was stolen in a burglary several years ago.
 SK> I had insurance but the jerk of a claims adjuster put depreciation
 SK> schedules on the stuff like mad and I never was able to get it all
 SK> back. Plus my Gibson L-6S and Takemine 12 string acoustic and my
 SK> British Marshall stack were so treasured by me that it completely broke
 SK> my heart. Man, I cried my eyes out.

Arf. That would hurt.

 SK> Then, about a year later I got all messed up with hard drugs for
 SK> several years and nearly lost everything else I had in the world. Never
 SK> did get back into the music scene.

That's too bad. Sounds like you really had something going on. :-(

 SK> I have great memories though, and about 50 something cassette tapes of
 SK> recordings to listen to. I made a couple of amateur videos too. I bore
 SK> friends and family with them all the time. ;)  Wish I had thought to
 SK> have had someone videotape my performance art things though.

 Nothing like great memories. :-)


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