Posts tagged with psychedelic

By C.G. Hilliard

Born Neil Megson in Manchester, Genesis P-Orridge is a living legend of underground culture. Along with doing dozens of collaborations over the years, Genesis was a founding member of experimental collective COUM Transmissions and the pioneering bands Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Thee Majesty.

On October 9th 2007, Genesis’s second wife and Psychic TV bandmate Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge died unexpectedly. The two were in the midst of a series of surgeries designed to make the pair into identical “pandrogynes.”

Genesis has carried on the Pandrogyny Project and an amazingly prolific creative output. Genesis’ band Psychic TV has a new album out called Mr. Alien Brain Vs. The Skinwalkers on Cargo/Sweet Nothing Records.

A few months back, Genesis did a phone interview with Mr Skin’s C.G. Hilliard and this is an excerpt of their long, fascinating conversation.

Read it after the jump.

Joe Papp’s esteemed Public Theater in New York City let its freak flag fly – and its tie-dyed costumes hit the stage floor – with the debut of Hair, the “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”, on this date in 1967.

Aside from a songbook that produced such mega-hits as the title song and "Age of Aquarius", Hair chronicled the ’60s counter-culture with all the necessary flourishes: flower-power, psychedelia, free love, and live nude singers and dancers.

After several stop-and-start stagings, Hair turned on Broadway audiences in 1968, and ran for 1,742 performances at the Biltmore theaters.

The show was revived numerous times and performed by countless groups all over the world. In 1979, Milos Forman directed the movie version of Hair, which features totally groovy nudity (especially in a PG-rated film) from Beverly D’Angelo, along with Nell Carter and Charlotte Raye shaking their groove things in a most mind-expanding manner.

Click the pic to see Beverly D’Angelo in the buff. In public!