our whole performance at THE NOTE!
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dho9d2mSO_w
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9yjru3iG1Y
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LRDaehoFUM
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Month: February 2009 (Page 2 of 4)
btw, chuck, what did you think of my band?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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hey Frank,
I’m not a very good music critic. I grew up on Texas rhythm & blues, rock,metal and eased on in to folk,bluegrass and reaggae/tribal,etc…. I guess your band was experie-mental jazz and I liked the sound. Nice drums, too.
No offence to Linda & Jen.
later,
chc
btw- if you like, you may view some of my music art @ www.myspace.com/chcimages
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i just picked up the drummer right before we went on stage! i often pick up even more than half of my band from other acts in the shows. but that night, except for the drummer, they were all vets of my band. the keyboard/accordion player has played with me for years in the bay area. the same with the guys from the l.a. tribal group HOP FROG…ever since we double billed at a l.a. downtown japanese restaurant years ago! and the other guitarist, jeff COSMIC STARFISH, just took the plunge during the previous l.a. trip 2 months ago. he is now addicted!
i like your description experie-mental jazz. i would add “tribal” to it.
would you say your response to my piece has evolved, expanded, deepen?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Ya know, I really get annoyed when people write articles about greatness but have no idea what they’ve actually seen.
Here’s my review:
Frank Moore, Linda, Mikey and Erika are beautiful people who make beautiful and original art.
Period. That’s it. No need for a bunch of unnecessary analytics.
– Vinnie
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shucks, vinnie. and they don’t seem to realize that they are revealing a lot about themselves.
Hey Frank,
There’s a new performance space in LA.
A Franky place…
Miss you, Jeffrey
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Oh crap… Zero-Point is closed. Guess it was just new to me.
Art spaces come and go in this town.
I’ll let you know if I find out about anything new and exciting.
~ Jeff
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oh, well! nice try! we are still recovering from the last l.a. trip. so i am not sure when we will ready to make that trip again. and they are trying to bring us to u.c. san barbara in april to lecture and/or perform [i may need musicians]..which will require a recovery period. so we have time to find another l.a. “franky place.”
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Hey!
Punk is a word, if you have to ask what it is, you’ll never understand it. (among punk friends it’s ‘a little bit hipper than hip’ -) and………and SOME PUNKS ARE ONES who might kiss the lepor on the mouth as St. Francis did, and will kill themselves for a two hour performance, where the performer subsidizes the audience who will be mostly poor, and punk is one of the screaming cogs in the wheel of anarchy, Punk is acquainted with the alleyways and hide-outs under bridges where they will find more angels than devils (such as ‘angel’ poet of the SF alleys and streeets, Sparrow 13, who has ‘read poetry’ with Julia Vinograd who is a fan of his work. – Punk never thouhtlessly smashes a flower under foot. Punk likes fun. Rhythm, song, dance, cartwheels, skateboard, clowning, John the Baker cookies, jam sessions till guitarists have bloody fingers. All night long! Punk is warm rain in your face and a sweet friend beside you. Punk is someone who fell off the ‘norm’ chart and has been dangling giddily since then at the edge of the ‘below below the below of the underground – thanks to Malvina Reynolds for “below the below” in song) Punks are ‘fiercely’ heart-first!!!!
Jessse cleopatra james
aka jesse beagle
ps – FUNNY YOU RAN INTO THAT FRANK, BUT I NEVER KNOW WHAT MY
GOOGLE-FISHING HOOK WILL BRING UP!!!!!!!!!!
DJB
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yep.
funny. i knew back then we freaked out a lot of punks …that’s why dirk had me there for over 3 years on at least a weekly basis. and vale was one of the freaked outs…which this reveals. when i have talked about it, people didn’t believe it because vale documented the extreme subcultures in REsearch…so why would i freak him out!?
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
tonight my computer has been crippled. so for fun, i googled FRANK MOORE….and found this:
What is Punk Rock and How Did It Begin?
an essay by V. Vale
Back in the Seventies in San Francisco, life was a lot simpler. The Punk Rock “Garden of Eden,” where Punk was born in San Francisco, was the Mabuhay Gardens on Broadway, the only venue in town that would dare host Punk Rock. Why? Because the policy of Dirk Dirksen, who booked the “Fab Mab,” was to give anyone at least one chance, without a preconceived, restrictive aesthetic. The Mab was open seven days a week, with three to five “acts” a night, so this was a lot of time slots to fill (this was before the rise of the DJ). Thus was created a nearly “anything goes” opportunity for anyone who came up with a live act. No other local club had this booking policy and this is the reason San Francisco Punk started at the Mabuhay.
One of the most unusual acts that played regularly through the first years of San Francisco Punk was Frank Moore’s Theatre (they have not gone down in Punk history). It was whispered that Frank, along with his wife Linda (who struck me as a kind of Manson girl), headed a commune in Berkeley, and that everyone slept together in one huge bed. Their act seemed a bit “creepy.” Frank, confined to a wheelchair, had the wizened, twisted little body of a geek or spastic, with flecks of drool on his clothing. He wore a headband with an antenna on his head that enabled him to communicate–usually in arhythmic shrieks and yelps that were near-impossible to decipher. But Linda seemed to understand him perfectly; she was his “medium.” Frank Moore’s group, which looked like Manson girl runaways and social misfits, enacted bizarre performances incorporating rants, music and dance that were definitely elementary enough to be “Punk Rock,” even though most Punk Rockers had difficulty processing the act and were puzzled … yet too baffled to show outright disparagement. Looking back, Frank Moore’s show truly realized the Punk credo of “Do It Yourself/Anyone Can Do It.” Because if Frank Moore could do it, truly anyone COULD do it. He took the “Do It Yourself/Anyone Can Do It” punk proclamation seemingly about as far as it could go. … [continued at http://www.researchpubs.com/features/whatispunk.php]
Hi Frank,
I was reading Steve’s post and I wanted to present a different position.
Not to be an apologist for the guy that had a physical reaction to your performance.
But we are all wired a bit differently and where some people would be curious, fascinated or aroused. Others could be threatened, over-welmed and challenged. I think he may have gotten more from your performance than a person that is more tolerant/jaded where it might just be another event in their field of vision.
His response has given us a lot to chew on in the salon.
I applaud him for his willingness to share his reaction. He didn’t have to step up and share his feelings.
Thanks again for providing a forum for these discussions.
Mark Soden (aka phog masheeen)
PS On a very different note.
I am celebrating Friday the thirteenth with a streaming performance.
Here are the details:
phog masheeen live with guests:
Dr. Kaplan – Sonified Kitchen Ware
Alan Lechusza – Reeds and Electronics
Tom Neas – Electronic Percussion
William Almas – Visualizations
Live 2-13-09 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM PST
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/phog-masheeen-live
This performance will be recorded for later access.
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i agree. and his response isn’t a dead end like “it was polarizing” is. his responses, if followed through, will lead to insights for all of us…which is why i hope he will write back. he is innocent faced with being transported beyond the normal boxes during the jam…boxes that cripple and limit. that is what caused the physical reactions. he tried to pin the reactions on the nude crip groaning and the “older women” naked. but when he starts trying to get his head around it, the nude crip and older women fade away as excuses/causes, leading him into an expanding reality. this is what jaded art crowds can avoid.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
Unfortunately in this world the people that should be are not and the people that should not be are. This is why I have 2 sides: one that should be and another that should not be. To be or not to be, that is the question….to be and not to be, the answer to that question.
Joseph Ferrante
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i am just a being!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
(Raindog:)
Who’s hailey?
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she is a great performance artist/musician in sacramento….MOM and NIGHT NURSE are 2 of her identities.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
frank
what impresses me most, is how you gently eased this guy into your mindset. he’s obviously intelligent or it would have never gotten past the first email exchange, but you didn’t just let him stay on his side, the safe side, no you cajoled him into experimenting with the idea (a first step, in my view). And thru your own wit and intelligence and gentle nature, persuaded him that what he was repulsed by was inside himself. many of my socalled enlightened friends couldn’t do that. It’s a special gift. and I applaud you for it.
Raindog
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i think that’s a part of the performance…so it is a part of my job as an artist. what most people think of as THE PERFORMANCE is in reality a middle part of the actual performance. yes, chuck offers a rare opportunity to directly explore the dynamics, the issues, etc. hopefully he will write back and continue the dialog. most people don’t. after the dec. l.a. performance, the people who run the gallery wrote that the piece was “liberating” [a positive] but “polarizing” [which obviously wasn’t what they wanted!]. but when i asked “which poles?”…trying to get a deeper picture of what they were talking about [for both them and me]….they didn’t write back! chuck has a certain innocence.
In Freedom,
Frank Moore