Mother-Daughter / The Residents 1977
Joe Potts / Slimy Adenoid and the Pablums
Joe Potts - Mother-Daughter
Slimy Adenoid and the Pablums - The Residents
"Mother-Daughter" is an abrasive collage of '70s sunshine pop chants and groans that sound like the cookie monster in a pit, played over the ambience of a crowded subway.
"The Residents" is actually a song with a ramshackle drum beat going on as somebody mumbles a tribute to the Residents.
Other noises come in from other directions.
There's even a chorus: "Oh yeah, I told you 'bout the Residents."
Le Forte Four, one of the most radical groups in the experimental scene. Los Angeles, CA, an improvisation supergroup featuring underground legends Rick and Joe Potts. Le Forte Four, founded by the teenage Le Forte, four members Chip Chapman, Joe Potts, and Rick Potts, soon joined by Tom Recchion of the Doo-Dooettes, LAFMS met in permissive and anarchic sessions at the Raymond Building and the Poo-Bah record store in old Pasadena.
Inspired by The Residents, LAFMS independently released records and periodicals, organized performances, and connected with fellow outsiders through correspondence in the years leading up to punk. Their uninhibited and egalitarian ideal of DIY music making and distribution would influence generations of underground artists.
Pioneers of sampling and the "do-it-yourself" aesthetic, anticipating practices that would become common in experimental and punk music, one of the first groups in the Los Angeles experimental scene, a member of LAFMS, active since 1973.
Projects related to the LAFMS scene include groups such as Smegma, Doo-Dooettes, and Airway ("Live at LACE" Airway), all fundamental to understanding this experimental and improvised soundscape of Los Angeles in the 1970s.
Considered a supergroup of improvisation that mixed sound collages, lo-fi electronics, TV recordings, homemade synthesizers and rudimentary recordings, tape music, sampling, advanced rock, musique concrète, cartoons, and chaotic performances, paving the way for punk and independent experimentalism.
Main members: Chip Chapman Joe Potts Rick Potts Susan Chapman Tom Potts
Bikini Tennis Shoes (1975) – first release, a landmark of experimentalism.
L.A. Free Music Society Live at The Brand (1976) collaboration with the Doo-Dooettes
Spin 'N Grin (1981)
Various subsequent albums and collections, including Slowscan Vol. 2 (1985)
