Template talk:The Residents

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[edit] Starting of template

Hi, I have just begun this template, and, while these aren't rules (who would I be to do that?), these are the ideas I have regarding this:

• Focus on major releases. While I do stretch out a little, I don't believe in including most compilations or remix albums or whatever (exception, Icky Flix, but that was also because I wanted to cover the DVD). I think we should keep it fairly light, at least for now.

• I didn't know exactly how to list Not Available. I would not object to changing it to reflect the release date. However, I would like to note that if the edit is purely out of belief that they did not record it in 1974 and that it was a hoax, it had at least been mentioned in a press release pertaining to The Third Reich 'n' Roll, as well as in the LP insert of that album.

So basically this is just to get the template started, edits are very welcome. Eclipsed Moon 17:32, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

In Portland, Oregon there was Bill Reinhardt, he was the dj at KBOO listener sponsered radio, in his early show of 1970 thru 1978, first called The Radio Lab, and later, Cryptic Propensities Projections, he played many unknown artists who would later come to be known as The Residents, note Bill Reinhardt's name, Bill (Uncle Willie) Reinhardt (N. Senada) a Bavarian name, Portland, Oregon is referred to among insiders as, The Frozen North, I have had the oppertunity to record on reel to reel all of the early Radio Lab shows, all of them, there are so many secrets, that are right out in the open, but await questions never known, weird, huh!!!!!??????

KBOO radio seemed to be a breeding ground for new musical thoughts and ideas, along with Bill Reinhardt at the station was, Barry Schwam (Schwump) who like Reinhardt was heavily involved in The Residents even having a record produced by them and providing backing music, this of course was, Aphids In The Hall, it was released in a limited edition of 200 copies. Schwump was also involved in The Vileness Fats Project. Now Schwump was very much into Christmas music, as well as the 'B' sides of records and not so coincidently, The Residents first release was, Santa Dog, made to look like a Christmas card from an insurance company, but there are numerous instances where Christmas was part of The Residents musical vocabulary, and like Reinhardt, Schwump disappeared from sight shortly after The Residents started to become an entity of worth, Schwump however, has emerged recently and has his own product line of cds, now if you look closely at Schwump's shirt that he sells with his face on it from a picture taken during the KBOO years, you can't help but notice the resemblance between him and the guy with the big ears on the cover of, Duck Stab.

Very troubling to us here in the Northwest was the fact that we seemed to be last on the list of live performances by The Residents, they were not playing in Portland, as it were, until the Wormwood period, so intent were they in keeping the Northwest link as far from the minds of people as possible, or so it seemed, but the Portland, and Northwest connection was not done, there is also Matt Groening, and not only is he a cultural icon here in the Northwest, but it was Groening who wrote, "The True Story of The Residents" in 1979 for The Official W.E.I.R.D. Book of The Residents, and, as he states right from the beginning of the story, "There is no true story of The Residents" so what do we have but a giant hoax, or musical sabotage, or perhaps one of the greatest art statements in history!!!!!

The Residents are close to revealing themselves, or at least thier project, a project that incorperated artists in (Residents), these are true cultural icons, and what better way to express thier ideas but with an eye con, truely iconoclastic, don't you think?