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You've probably never heard of him, or the band he was "business manager" for.
He was a touchstone on my lifelong discovery of music.
My first memory of music would be Tommy James and the Shondells "Crimson and Clover". I'm not sure I was even 2 years of age. I'm 51 now and listen to everything from Chopin to Faren Young to Meshuggah to John Cage to Bananarama.
Hardy Fox was one of the primary creative forces behind a band from San Francisco called The Residents. They were a performance art-based band from San Francisco by way of Texas, Louisiana and who knows where else.
The Residents created music and art that challenged the preconceived notions of music and art, haranguing the marketing of music to the masses while being enamored by the simplicity and accessibility of pop music. They maintained their anonymity by not appearing in the liner notes, and by obscuring their appearance in live performance. Their costumes as seen below were quite simple, tux and tails with a large eyeball mask donning a top hat. Their name derived from the return of an anonymous submission to Warner Brothers in which they provided a return address. Their submission was returned and addressed to "Residents".
Their first full length album was titled "Meet the Residents" and released in 1974. My personal selection from this album would have to be "Spotted Pinto Bean" followed closely by "Infant Tango" and "Smelly Tongues".
They were one of the first artists to parody or lampoon existing songs, as the first track on "Meet the Residents" was a loose take on Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made for Walking". They were adept at creating sounds that grated on the nerve, seemed to draw lyrics from stream of consciousness diatribes or glorified the remnants of the subconscious found while under duress or ecstasy.
The compositions themselves would range from semi-complex to deconstructionist/minimalist.
Their lineup would shift and change from album to album. Some contributing artists were known (Snakefinger), and some are still up for debate to this day (members of Dead Kennedys, Primus, Devo are suspected of being involved from time to time).
RIP Hardy, thanks for enriching my musical experience and tastes.
He was a touchstone on my lifelong discovery of music.
My first memory of music would be Tommy James and the Shondells "Crimson and Clover". I'm not sure I was even 2 years of age. I'm 51 now and listen to everything from Chopin to Faren Young to Meshuggah to John Cage to Bananarama.
Hardy Fox was one of the primary creative forces behind a band from San Francisco called The Residents. They were a performance art-based band from San Francisco by way of Texas, Louisiana and who knows where else.
The Residents created music and art that challenged the preconceived notions of music and art, haranguing the marketing of music to the masses while being enamored by the simplicity and accessibility of pop music. They maintained their anonymity by not appearing in the liner notes, and by obscuring their appearance in live performance. Their costumes as seen below were quite simple, tux and tails with a large eyeball mask donning a top hat. Their name derived from the return of an anonymous submission to Warner Brothers in which they provided a return address. Their submission was returned and addressed to "Residents".
Their first full length album was titled "Meet the Residents" and released in 1974. My personal selection from this album would have to be "Spotted Pinto Bean" followed closely by "Infant Tango" and "Smelly Tongues".
They were one of the first artists to parody or lampoon existing songs, as the first track on "Meet the Residents" was a loose take on Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made for Walking". They were adept at creating sounds that grated on the nerve, seemed to draw lyrics from stream of consciousness diatribes or glorified the remnants of the subconscious found while under duress or ecstasy.
The compositions themselves would range from semi-complex to deconstructionist/minimalist.
Their lineup would shift and change from album to album. Some contributing artists were known (Snakefinger), and some are still up for debate to this day (members of Dead Kennedys, Primus, Devo are suspected of being involved from time to time).
RIP Hardy, thanks for enriching my musical experience and tastes.
