The Residents

This Article is on the best band from the 70s tell now

The Residents one of the COOLEST bands from the 70s tell now.

Why are they so cool you ask because they used a lot of sound-fx and editing and they followed the Theory of Obscurity witch states that an artist can only produce pure art when the expectations and influences of the outside world are not taken into consideration. Senada and his theory are referred to almost exclusively in connection with avant garde musical group The Residents. Now how did they do that because they did a lot of live shows.... well they put big Eye Ball's with top hats on them.

They are best known for there Songs:
Constantinople
Hello Skinny
The Act of Being Polite
This is a Man's World (James Brown Cover)

Were did they come from While attempting to make a living, they began to experiment with tape machines, photography, and anything remotely to do with art that they could get their hands on. Word of their experimentation spread and in 1969, a British guitarist and multi-instrumentalist named Phil Lithman and the mysterious N. Senada (whom Lithman had picked up in Bavaria where the aged avant-gardist was recording birds singing) paid them a visit, and decided to remain.
The two Europeans would become great influences on the band. Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the nickname Snakefinger, after his frantic playing on the violin during the performance with the Residents at The Boarding House in San Francisco 1971, where his fingers' speed made them look like snakes in the eyes of the less-musically proficient but imaginative Residents.
The group purchased crude recording equipment and instruments and began to make tapes, refusing to let an almost complete lack of musical proficiency stand in the way.

How they got there name was by trying to get a Record deal with Warner Brothers Because the band had not included any name in the return address, the rejection slip was simply addressed to "The Residents". The members of the group then decided that this would be the name they would use, first becoming Residents.

Fun Fact
The Residents supposedly hail from Shreveport, Louisiana, where they met in high school in the 1960s. In 1966, members headed west to San Francisco, California. After their truck broke down in San Mateo, they decided to remain there. Like all information pertaining to the early days of the band, this is provided by The Cryptic Corporation and may or may not be invented.

One of the eye's are GONE at a tour some one went back stage and STOLE an eye.

Comments

A couple of things I want to make points about. I feel strongly about them, so even though an article this pathetic wouldn't usually be worth my time, I feel the need to share.

* For starters, if you are going to steal an article, feel free to steal both the punctuation and correct spelling too. That way, I don't sit around wondering why you can't operate a spell checker.

* Something being "cool" is subjective. I don't think they're cool. I don't think you're cool. I don't think this article is cool. It's my opinion and you can choose to disagree with it. So, don't try to persuade me otherwise.

* The idea that you can only produce art when the expectations of the outside world isn't taken into consideration is a recipe for pure failure, especially in the music industry. If you don't appeal to at least a niche audience, you don't sell albums. Lack of sales quickly leads to obscurity and a loss of recording contracts (in other words, you don't put out any more albums). It might explain why this group isn't known by most people. Or anybody, really.

* Examine other articles on this site to see how to do them correctly. That is all.

I don't see how this individual can justify it as ok. Nothing wrong with using it as a source of history, but when you do nothing but switch some sentences around and post it as an article thats pretty low.

you got this from wikipedia? plagiarism. don't you just love it?

Not even worth my critique.

I heard of this band before, just another pretentious band from the early 70s, only catch is that it tries to be "cool" by being different. They think anti-songwriting is a way of 'rebellion' when in retrospect they just suck so they record any old baloney, it was a mix of this, plus the fact that alot of late 60s/early 70s "art" rock-music was completely reliant on echo-effects and synthesizers, and nonsensical lyrics. just not my cup o' tea at all.

Sorry, i usually don't "TROLL", but i usually enjoy reading the music-related articles on here, and you really lacked any opinion in this whole article. I'm not trying to come off 'arrogant" or anything, but if you voiced any of your own observations instead of "they're the best band ever cause they're cool", i might reconsider looking at the band in a different light.

No you got ALL of it from wikipedia. Except for the part about them being one of the coolest bands of the 70's... Everything else you copied and pasted into the article, you just switched some of it around.

Here is the info from wikipedia:

History[edit] OriginsThe Residents supposedly hail from Shreveport, Louisiana, where they met in high school in the 1960s. In 1966, members headed west to San Francisco, California. After their truck broke down in San Mateo, they decided to remain there. Like all information pertaining to the early days of the band, this is provided by The Cryptic Corporation and may or may not be invented.
While attempting to make a living, they began to experiment with tape machines, photography, and anything remotely to do with art that they could get their hands on. Word of their experimentation spread and in 1969, a British guitarist and multi-instrumentalist named Phil Lithman[1] and the mysterious N. Senada (whom Lithman had picked up in Bavaria where the aged avant-gardist was recording birds singing) paid them a visit, and decided to remain.
The two Europeans would become great influences on the band. Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the nickname Snakefinger, after his frantic playing on the violin during the performance with the Residents at The Boarding House in San Francisco 1971, where his fingers' speed made them look like snakes in the eyes of the less-musically proficient but imaginative Residents.
The group purchased crude recording equipment and instruments and began to make tapes, refusing to let an almost complete lack of musical proficiency stand in the way.

sorry i got some of i from wikapedia but who cares

Also why not write your own article rather than copying and pasting from wikipedia... Thats rather pathetic.

Article is difficult to read, never heard of the group, too short, etc...