t.tex's hexes: creem

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In late 1971 Creem Magazine sent Lester Bangs out to write an article on the raging new rock force that was Alice Cooper, from which these pictures appeared. It didn't hurt that the band spent a short tenure in the Detroit rock scene - where Creem Magazine was located - sharing bills with The MC5, Stooges, SRC, and The Frost (whose guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter later joined the band).

Before Alice became a trailer park rock god he earned a lot of bonus airline points playing the drag queen card, wearing falsies, Dolly Parton wigs and just queening out. On the right is a still from the legendary "Ballad of Dwight Frye" song where's he's institutionalized in a strait jacket. In the next picture he's doing a bizarre Salvador Dali "Persistence of memory" routine. He ended up meeting with Dali who adored Cooper to the point of creating a hologram of Alice.

Here's Alice in body stocking and heels to the left, and tearing the poster to the "Love It To Death" album on stage to the right. Early footage of Alice Cooper perofrming live can be seen in Frank & Eleanor Perry's movie "Diary of a Mad Housewife" where chickens aren't killed, but pillows are ripped open and the goose feathers are tossed around in a hail of pflug.

When my band used to tour the driver got to choose which cassette tape we had to listen to while they drove. I had three guitar players; when one drove we had to listen to Neil Young & Crazy Horse, when the other drove we had to listen to the third Velvet Underground album, the real terrible one with songs like “I’m Set Free”, “Jesus”, and “I’m Beginning To See The Light”, yuck, and the third one played a tape that had Alice Cooper’s “Love It To Death” on one side and “Killer” on the other side. Guess who played the best guitar?

Here's Alice consolidating his queeny image by having his hair done at the beauty parlor. He also had The Cockettes perofrm and appear at several events and shows around this time. I think Alice and Frank Zappa tried pretty hard to downplay any drug involvement because they were creepy guys from Laurel Canyon and at the time (1970-1971) every straight in LA thought if you had long hair and came from the Canyon you were Charles Manson, so eventually they went out of their way to brag about how average they were. Too bad. By the time "School's Out" was released (1972) our private party was over.

All photos by Ric Siegel, 1971

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Lab Partners

From: http://thesweetestpsychopath.tumblr.com/post/214944360/humphrey-bogart-in-the-return-of-dr-x-warner

Humphrey Bogart in “The Return of Dr. X” (Warner Brothers, 1939) via Heritage Auctions

From: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2005/12/12/license-plates-now-with-more-skulls/

Special License Plates Tag Careless Drivers Special license plates for traffic violators are being considered as a safety measure by Cliff Davis, commissioner of public safety in Memphis, Tenn. If the measure is adopted motorists who persistently break traffic laws will be required to run in their regular licence plates for special tags, similar to that shown in the photograph above, bearing a skull and the words “traffic-law violator.” - Popular Science Mar, 1939

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Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943)

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Авторизуйтесь, чтобы оставить свой комментарий или оценить фото. (via trixietreats)

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(via nononoknow)

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Monster Public Service Announcements by Rob Kelly http://robkellyillustration.blogspot.com/

From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/202617421/screamin-jay-hawkins-crazy-man

Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – February 12, 2000) was an African-American musician, singer, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues," Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, probably making him the first shock rocker. From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_Jay_Hawkins

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins — I Put A Spell On You “Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad.” The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where “Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon.” The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a “raw, guttural track” that became his greatest commercial success and surpassed a million copies in sales. Listen here:
http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/202616070/screamin-jay-hawkins-i-put-a-spell-on-you

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Maria Montez aka “The Queen of Technicolor”, in black and white. They named an airport after her in the Dominican Republic, you know. Maria Montez International Airport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Montez

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Dali ~ Barcelona Sphinx

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Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Nevelson 1986

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Ad for a widow

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Hannes Bok, Mambaloa, 1947. Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Woodard (July 2, 1914–April 11, 1964), was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, which was learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. Bok was the first artist to win a Hugo Award. - from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bok

From: http://pignouf-vintageposter.blogspot.com/2009/10/cocorico.html

Cocorico était un journal bi-mensuel humoristique, littéraire et artistique. "Artistique" c'est peu dire lorsque les signataires des couvertures ont des noms prestigieux ; Mucha, Kupka, Widhopff, Steinlen, Grün, Wély, Roubille, Wilette, Kienerk...
Une fois n'est pas coutume, j'ai glané sur le net l'ensemble des couvertures présentées.

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Members of The New York Dolls stroll up theChamps Elysées toward the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, November 1973. © Alain Dister. Rock n' roll photo ops trump traffic regulations and common courtesy. That's covered in Rock Entitlement 203. This Dister shot was probably staged like a 1000 other shots on the Champs, but when I was holed up in the Hotel Astrid down at the end of avenue Carnot (off camera to the right) back in '06, it never occurred to *me* to do such a thing. I mean negotiating the traffic around and approaching the Arc is not for the faint of heart.

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Audrey hepburn chopping wood.

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Koo Koo The Bird Girl (via a Contessa)

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arthur brown via gocontinental.com

From:http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2009/10/treading-boards-3.html

Treading the Boards #3-Photos of Bela Lugosi (then Bela Lugossy) in The Passion Play, 1909.

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Ghost Breakers #2, December 1948
Dr. Neff Breaks the Voodoo Hoodoo
From the Grand Comic-Book Database: http://www.comics.org/

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Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon.

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Yinka Shonibare

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Photographed by Jadeeey from CRAPPY TAXIDERMY (I think the cat is unstuffed & alive)

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straus

From: http://www.sydbarrettpinkfloyd.com/2009/10/syd-barrett-opel-magazine-button.html

Check out this Octopus pin that was an addition to the Syd Barrett Opel fanzine. The button was only available to the subscribers of the Syd Barrett 'OPEL' Fanzine. The year of this was 1984. The name 'OPEL' came from the name of an unreleased song from the Madcap Sessions. The button has the Octopus logo from the song of the same name released 11/14/1969 on the Harvest label.

From: http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2009/10/poets-are-both-clean-and-warm-and-most_28.html

George Sterling The San Francisco poet who wrote about "My cool, grey city of love." If you're looking for a precursor of the psychedelics, look for his long poem "A Wine of Wizardry." Killed himself at the Bohemian Club in 1926. There is a nice website dedicated to him: http://www.george-sterling.org/

From: http://tartanspartan.tumblr.com/post/228001247/iceberg-antarctica-joan-myers-2001-whos-up