historia dos Residents... The Residents - Spotted Pinto Bean
Roland Sheehan
Taken from the Theory of Obscurity site:
Roland grew up with some of the founders of the Cryptic Corporation and he drove across the country to stay with them in California back in the early 70′s. Roland brought a few instruments with him to California including a Hammond B3 organ, a guitar, and a piano.
He met The Residents through the Cryptic Corporation guys, and, at that time, they owned a two-track reel-to-reel recorder.
Roland says, “It was really odd, to be honest with you. I was there one afternoon with the Residents…we all knew we needed to do something. We needed to make music. I walked over to the window, looked down, and near the building we were in, there was an old pickup truck, probably a ’51 or ’52, rusty all over, no paint on it. In the back was a pile of rusted coat hangers that were taller than the truck. There must have been thousands of rusty coat hangers in there. I walked back. I turned to the Residents and I said, “You’ve got to come look at this.
From there, we evolved Rusty Coat Hangers for the Doctor. I took out my guitar. The Residents wrote the lyrics. It just evolved, actually, that afternoon. As I recall, the first recording was made with one microphone, because I believe that was all we had.”
Bob Tangney
The Singing Lawn Chairs
Credited on Santa Dog as an independent group, but seem to be a group of actresses from Vileness Fats, again listed as early girl group collaborators. Smacks of an inside joke.
Gary Phillips playing guitar on Third Reich n Roll. Gary was a member of pop rock ensemble The Greg Kihn Band, as well as various other projects.
Eric Drew Feldman
Originally a member of Captain Beefheart's band, Feldman toured as a guitar player in The Residents during the DDA days, and was friends with Snakefinger in the early days. On their more recent tours, he seems to have been playing the keyboardist role originally played by "Chuck"
Nolan Cook A guitarist credited with working on many of the bands releases in the past 20 years.
Fred Frith played on The Commercial Album, and possibly more.
Chris Cutler played drums on Eskimo, Commercial Album and possibly more. On one of his solo releases, there is a track which can be inferred to be a field recording of Hardy Fox playing piano (in what sounds to be an airport or something).
Andy Partridge Played guitar and sang on "Margaret Freeman" off of The Commercial Album.
Lene Lovich sing "Picnic Boy" on The Commercial Album.
Graeme/Daniel Garrett Whifler
Whifler was with them from the early days. He directed Vileness Fats and helped design sets. He photographed them for various projects and purportedly helped design costumes. His brother Daniel's porfolio says he keeps busy with music projects in his spare time. I wonder.
first singer Pamela Zeibak, in this song, video
Molly Harvey The Resident whose name is well documented, in a way. Her voice graces many of their modern releases. Here's a story about how she came to be in the band.
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1945, Homer Flynn spent the first 24 years of his life submerged in the repressed, but charming naivete of The South. Seduced by the fantasy of easy sex, cheap drugs and loud music, Flynn was unwilling to commit to the life of a concrete truck dispatcher** attached to a pregnant, but unloved girlfriend and fled to San Francisco in 1969. Guilty, but free, he drank deeply from the cup of youth culture, ingesting, imbibing and fornicating any and all.
Over the next 40 years, he was married twice, was proud to be a partner in the propagation of two lovely daughters, Jana and Isabelle, and became involved with the murky aesthetics of San Francisco's music, performance and video group, The Residents. As their chief visual designer and co-owner of The Cryptic Corporation, The Residents' business and public relations interface, Flynn has been involved in nearly all of the group's improbable projects since the early 1970's. Currently, he lives in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco with his charming wife, Leigh Barbier.
Flynn also claims himself to be the inventor of the "shower-bath. "
Snakefinger
Philip C Lithman, early and important Residents collaborator and friend, his distinct guitar style and compositional signatures grace the vast majority of their early works. Supposedly he skipped the pond to see exactly what it was The Residents were up to and, along with N. Senada who he picked up along the way, became a collaborator and influence on their various projects. After his passing while on tour with them, The Residents musically payed their respects several times with Snakey Wake, the live lyrics to "Life Would Be Wonderful" from their album Demons Dance Alone (the lyrics were "If our good friend Snakefinger hadn't had a heart attack....") and in various other ways since.
