![]() In early 1972, the band left San Mateo and relocated to 20 Sycamore St, San Francisco a studio they named "El Ralpho", which boasted a completely open ground floor (seemingly ideal for a sound stage), allowing the group to expand their operations and also begin preliminary work on their most ambitious project up to that point, a full-length film entitled Vileness Fats, which consumed most of their attention for the next four years. The Enigmatic Foe (still from the Not Available Sessions, 1974 The cover art for the tape box was a silk-screened copy of an old photo depicting a woman fellating a small child, an example of the extremely confrontational and deliberately puerile visual and lyrical style the group adopted during this period.ฤก972โ1980: "Classic" era Santa Dog, Meet the Residents, Not Available & The Third Reich 'n Roll (1972โ1976) Later in 1971, a second tape was completed called Baby Sex, featuring a long collage partially consisting of recordings from the Boarding House performance. A photo from it, showing Lithman playing violin with his pinky "about to strike the violin like a snake", originated the stage name he used for the rest of his life, Snakefinger. The brief, guerrilla-style performance took the audience by surprise. was at the Boarding House in San Francisco in 1971. The first known public performance of the Residents, Uninc. The group decided to use this name, first becoming Residents Uninc., then shortening it to the current name. Because the band had not included a name in the return address, the rejection slip was addressed to "Residents". Album, but gave it an "A for Ariginality". Halverstadt was not impressed with The Warner Bros. In 1971, the group sent a reel-to-reel demo tape to Hal Halverstadt at Warner Bros., as he had signed Captain Beefheart, one of the group's heroes, to the label. The two Europeans became great influences and life-long collaborators with the group. Senada, whom Lithman had picked up during an expedition in Bavaria. Around this time they also met the mysterious (and perhaps apocryphal) N. Word of the unnamed group's experimentation spread, and in 1969 British guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Philip Lithman, known as Snakefinger, began to participate with them. The Cryptic Corporation has confirmed that their archives contain many tapes dating back decades, but because they were recorded before the group officially became the Residents, the band does not consider them part of its discography. The Residents have acknowledged the existence of at least two unreleased reel-to-reel items from this era, titled The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger and Rusty Coathangers for the Doctor. ![]() While attempting to make a living, the group purchased crude recording equipment and began to refine their recording and editing skills, as well as photography, painting, and anything remotely to do with art that they could afford. In 1966, intending to join the flourishing hippie movement, they headed west for San Francisco, but when their truck broke down in San Mateo, California, they decided to remain there. ![]() Around 1965, they began making their first amateur home tape recordings and making art together with a number of friends. The artists who became the Residents met in high school in Shreveport, Louisiana, in the early 1960s. The earliest known photograph of the group, circa 1969 History 1965โ1972: Origins and Residents Unincorporated In 2017, Hardy Fox, long known to be associated with the Residents, identified himself as the band's co-founder and primary composer he died in 2018. In public, they appear silent and costumed, often wearing eyeball helmets, top hats and tails-a costume now recognized as their signature iconography. Much speculation and rumor has focused on this aspect of the group. Throughout the group's existence, the individual members have ostensibly attempted to work anonymously, preferring to have attention focused on their art. They founded Ralph Records, a record label focusing on avant-garde music, in 1972. Pioneers in exploring the potential of CD-ROM and similar technologies, the Residents have won several awards for their multimedia projects. They have undertaken seven major world tours and scored multiple films. Since their first official release, Meet the Residents (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs. The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works.
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