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Voodookitten76
Thanks, mikehat. I suspect that this guy was more than a fan / spectator / hanger on as well.
And I had no idea that there was a film of Atomic Sunrise in the works--can't wait to see that!
Looks like this guy is a member of "The Living Theatre". Seems that the Stones inner circle (in the late 60's) knew some of these people. More pictures from the March 1970 Atomic Sunrise gathering: [
mashable.com]
From Keith Richards’ Life, page 221:“Anita [Pallenberg] and I went to Rome that spring and summer [1967], between the bust and the trials, where Anita played in Barbarella, with Jane Fonda, directed by Jane’s husband Roger Vadim. Anita’s Roman world centered around the Living Theatre, the famous anarchist-pacifist troupe run by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, which had been around for years but was coming into its own in this period of activism and street demos. The Living Theatre was particularly insane, hard-core, its players often getting arrested on indecency charges—they had a play [“Paradise Now”] in which they recited lists of social taboos at the audience, for which they usually got a night in the slammer. Their main actor, a handsome black man named Rufus Collins, was a friend of Robert Fraser, and they were a part of the Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga connection. And so it all went round in a little avant-garde elite, as often as not drawn together by a taste for drugs, of which the LT was a center. And drugs were not copious in those days. The Living Theatre was intense, but it had glamour. There were all those beautiful people attached, like Donyale Luna, who was the first famous black model in America, and Nico and all those girls who were hovering around. Donyale Luna was with one of the guys from the theater. Talk about a tiger, a leopard, one of the most sinuous chicks I’ve ever seen. Not that I tried or anything. She obviously had her own agenda. And all backlit by the beauty of Rome, which gave it an added intensity…” [
arthurmag.com]
The Rolling Stone Interview:Tell us the interesting story of how you got your ear pierced.
Well, the cat who was doing it – a jeweler or he studied it – was on about 15 Mandrax. Very stoned. Doing it the good old-fashioned way. None of your anaesthetics and machinery. With a sewing needle and ice. Me next. Rubs the ice on and he's dodging back and forth. God knows how he managed to do it. And he just made it. It's right at the lobe.
I've always wanted a pierced ear. I made me first bottleneck and had me ear pierced the same night, with about 15 of the
Living Theatre and I was about the fourth ear. He did Anita's too, at a special angle. By then he had another ten Mandrax and was completely out of it. Try it from the front. No, let's go at it from the back.
But a lot of people got their ear pierced that night, it was around the time of the
Hyde Park concert.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2017-02-26 00:57 by 2000 LYFH.