FREAKSHOW PEOPLE OF YESTERDAY PART 3

These freaks actually liked performing... well... some of them. It gave them an income. But then again this is according to the FREAKSHOW MUSEUM in Coney Island.

In 1976 my mother met a woman in a freakshow tent with a face the size of a fifty cent peice. The event was so disturbing that she blocked it out of her memory. To this day she refuses to ackowledge it even happened. It happened in a town called Muskegon, Michigan. Ironically it is also the town where I was born. I remember this event due to the fact that i found a pamphlet that spelled out this tiny womans life story. She sold them to people who visited her and this was a source of income. This woman sat on a tiny throne as if she was royalty.

As a youth I was somewhat terrified at the prospect of going into a freakshow. But I do remember the grotesque posters. These were large sheets of canvas and horrible depictions of these people inside. As a scare tactic it worked on me. I didnt have the guts to walk into these shows. As I got older these shows altogether disappeared. I still found myself fascinated with the spectacle of them.

Cantu posted this on Aug. 4, 2007 on 7:54 PM

FREAKS OF YESTERDAY PART 2

posted by Cantu - Aug. 4, 2007 at 7:42 pm

FREAKS OF YESTERDAY

Most Humbly, Cantu - Aug 6, 2007 at 7:38

FREAKS - PARTY ON !

"The Infamous Wedding Scene - Banned in 50 States"

"Gooba Gabba" became the outcry for THE RAMONES. This movie inspired all of our modern day freaks like Rob Zombie etc. Although Generation Y is most likely to not give a shit about this or literally anything else. This movie inspired all of our great modern day thinkers even though it was banned in 50 states.

This film comes from America and was created sometime around the Wizard of Oz. The thought at MGM was that if Americans loved the munchkins then they would do backflips for deformed and crippled freaks. The end result was that the industry laid a giant goose egg. This became the ugly secret of Hollywood and was shelved out of pure embarrasment.

When it was released it scared the SHIT out of people and sent women screaming out of the theater. You will have to watch the entire film to see what I am talking about. This is one disturbing piece of cinema. I mean they FREAKS retaliate and transform the evil bride into a chicken for crying out loud.

I still never got a good definition for GOOBA GABBA or where it came from. I never got an explanation for the origin of this phrase or what inspired it. All I know is that director Todd Browning was basically kicked out of motion pictures for creating this psychotic work. Browning was the director on the Dracula films.

There is a scene supposedly that had the cast of the freakshow walking into a courtroom after they cut up the woman into a chicken and turn her into a sideshow act. I read this in a film book and the author claimed that the ending was lost. They showed the freaks walking into a NYC courtroom. I am serious. This is what I read. I think this is total bullshit.

You should rent this.

Its worth it.

You may not find it disturbing. We have become pretty hard in this country. This type of film will never be shot again. We can detect hideous deformities before they are born now with modern day technology. Still its amazing that anyone would want to pay and see this back in the day. Americans were pretty morbid for demanding this type of entertainment. Freakshows were a big thing in carnivals for many years. Now with humanistic lobbyist groups these types of things are becoming a big thing of the past.


posted by Cantu on Aug 5, 2007 at 7:24 PM

MDA TELETHON - LIVE

Posted Aug. 5, 2007 at 7:09 PM

CANDY BUTCHERS - YOU BELONG TO ME NOW

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g24Dk7JSgaE



Video for "You Belong To Me Now" from the Candy Butchers album Play With Your Head. Shot and directed by Mark Seliger.

"Another View Of Mike Viola"

I didn't recognize MV on this clip. I am used to his goggled Ray Orbison look. This is an interesting song and the video has a likeableness to it.

Posted by Cantu on Aug. 5, 2007

LUSCIOUS JACKSON - NAKED EYE

THE TOY DOLLS - DIG THAT FRIGGEN GGGGGROOVE BAY BEEEEEEEEEE

"DIG THAT GROOVE BAY BEEEEE"

Get ready to get your head kicked in!
This was one of the most original sounding bands of its time. Its a punk band that plays with a musical range. That was one of the things that really impressed me when I first came across these guys. They could work a fret board.

They could also tear the house down.

You don't come back to normalacy after that ... do you?

Cantu posted this on Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 8:46 PM

ROBYN HITCHCOCK - QUEEN ELVIS - LIVE

"Taken During The High Period - at Tower Records, (When TR Was Valid!)"

1989 was a wondrous time. New Music was unclassified and YET it was making money and fans all around. This was the time to really follow music. The record companies were all on the phone clamoring for a definition waiting to classify EVERYTHING IN SITE. But it was too hard to do.....

While record PR people were at odds records, yes records, were selling. The entire CD revolution was in a slow turning groove and this was years before Itunes. Tower Records was THE place to get anything you wanted at the time. There seemed to be a lot more of them around back in those days.... And while all of this was happening there was a lot of great songs that were getting pumped out into the public.

Note: At this time nobody needed permission to do anything.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK GOES ACOUSTIC
Ironically I never got a chance to see the Egyptians... technically. I did, however, see the Soft Boys at an impromptu gig at the Bowery Ballroom and reformed once again for the Underwater Moonlight Tour a few years back. Seeing Hitch on the EYE Tour was amazing in its own right. I wanted to see him with a band and go electric. I did not want to see a tour or listen to an entire album that was done acoustically...... but his stuff was different.

The longer he toured and released albums of this nature the better the sound became. If you listen to him sing on the Jonathan Demme concert film he has elevated his acoustic sound to something pretty powerful. It wasn't until this sound was taken to its zenith did I see him play no less than 6 separate times.

*** The funny thing about the album EYE was that it was released on Twin Tone records. This label was home for the Replacements and other thrashy bands. Before the press could jump all over Hitchcock with petty criticisms the record was already recorded and released and distributed.

And there are some gems on this recording. There are several tracks on here that are worth owning. They defy stereotyping of any kind.

Ted Cantu posted this on July 29, 2007 at 8:38 PM