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Throughout their 30+ year history, The Residents have always cloaked their lives and music in obscurity. The band members, which appear to be 4 or 5 in number, refuse to grant interviews, and do not identify themselves by name or even individual pseudonyms. Concerts and photo shoots are always performed in full disguise, most recognizably in white tie tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball masks (in the mid 1980s, one member's eyeball mask would be stolen, but replaced with a giant skull mask). Any interviews or PR work are done directly by the band's hired management team, known as The Cryptic Corporation. It is believed that at least one member of the group is female, and it has been speculated that the group may include well-known musicians who, perhaps, are under contract to other record companies, which would necessitate maintaining some form of anonymity.
For their part, The Residents simply feel that artists do their best work without the influence of an audience, should only be judged by their work, and that a band members' genders, ethnicities, line-up changes, and most importantly daily life outside of the band, are irrelevant.
Due to the obscure nature of the band, it's difficult to get an accurate history of The Residents. What follows is information from one authorized account. The Residents originally hail from Shreveport, Louisiana, where they met in high school in the 1960s. In 1966, members headed west to San Francisco, California. After their truck broke down in San Mateo. they decided to remain there.
Whilst attempting to eke out a living they experimented with tape machine s, photography, and anything remotely to do with "art" that they could get their hands on. Word of their experimentation spread and, in 1969, a British guitarist named Philip Lithman and the mysterious N. Senada (who Lithman had picked up in BavariaWith an area of 70,553 kmē and 11. 6 million inhabitants, the Free State of Bavaria ( German Bayern or Freistaat Bayern forms the southernmost of the 16 Bundeslander of Germany. Its capital is Munich. Geography Bavaria shares international borders with Au) paid them a visit, and decided to remain.
The two Europeans would eventually become great influences on the band. Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the name Snakefinger.
The group purchased crude recording equipment and instruments and began to make tapes, refusing to let an almost complete lack of musical proficiency stand in the way. One of their first public performances was at the Longbranch in Berkeley, CaliforniaBerkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, United States. Its neighbor to the south is the city of Oakland, California. Its eastern border is formed by the Tilden Regional Park. Berkeley is located in Alameda County. Places B.
By 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January they had completed two tapes, Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor and The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger . In 19711971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). Events January January 1 British divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. Janua the group sent a third tape to Hal Halverstadt at Warner Brothers. Unfortunately, despite having worked with Captain BeefheartDon Van Vliet (born January 15, 1941 in Glendale, California), is a musician and painter, best known under the pseudonym Captain Beefheart . Vliet's output is rooted in blues music and rock music, but his idiosyncratic, diverse approach largely defies cla, Halverstadt wasn't at all impressed with "The Warner Bros. Album" and it was rejected. Because the band had not included any name in the return address, the rejection slip was simply addressed to Residents. This is where the band got the name.
The first performance of the band using the "Residents" moniker was at the Boarding House Club in San Francisco in 19711971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). Events January January 1 British divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. Janua. That same year another tape was completed, the charmingly named Baby Sex with its cover lifted from the pages of a Danish porn mag.
In 1972 they moved to San Francisco and formed Ralph Records.
Around this time, the band developed their "Theory of Obscurity", which states that the artist can only produce pure art when the expectations and influences of the outside world are not taken into consideration.
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