Quote from: Steve on August 30, 2012, 07:12:18 PM
I always thought that Destroy All Monsters were from Detroit, Michigan and were linked to The Stooges in someway ... had a 7" on Cherry Red Records back in '78 but I was not keen ... what is the link to the Los Angeles Free Music Society? Just interested ...
Of course, this connection wasn't pure and Mike KELLEY was this link, and his project EXTENDED ORGAN which was set up with people from LAFMS ... but... here is the link to interview with Mike KELLEY:
http://www.sonicyouth.com/symu/lee/2012/02/02/mike-kelley/and this is quote of that:
MB: Were you accepted by the art world? Could you play in galleries?
MK: No—we weren't accepted by the art world or the music world, so we operated in a kind of guerilla way. We would crash house parties and play there; or we'd play at loft parties for three or four people, after the rest had fled. We existed in more of a conceptual way, rather than as part of a scene. But that really changed with the rise of punk. When I moved to California, I tried to move into the punk scene with my band the Poetics, which included Tony Oursler and John Miller. Some of the musicians associated with the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) were attempting to do the same thing, but that was a very odd marriage. All of my attempts to fit into different music scenes didn't work; at a certain point, I lost interest and decided to do solo work that was specifically geared towards the performance art audience, keeping out of the music world entirely.
DESTROY ALL MONSERS from 1973-1976 were different to this from 1978. That first was more experimental. KELLEY wasn't in line-up of DAM in 1978. Similarity was rather in the same kind of music to LAFMS than real collaborations.
