Your residents theory
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Topic: Your residents theory
Posted By: Revan
Subject: Your residents theory
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 16:35
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So what do you think? Are The Residents normal people who wants to hide
their faces to have a normal life? Or there is something more? Are they
like the gorillaz who are so into drugs that the can't be shown? What's
your opinion? Have fun ------------- 
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 16:38
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The Residents are Menudo in disguise. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 17:36
They come from planet Resident, which is not far from the green planet Gong 
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Posted By: stinkfist
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 19:10
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i think Primus was the Residents for a while ------------- how can this mean anything to me? when i really dont feel a thing at all |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: October 25 2005 at 19:34
------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Syzygy wrote:Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 04:01
| I saw The Residents live in 1986 (on ther 13th anniversary tour). The guitarist Snakefinger was a special guest-star. He was the only one on stage who wasn't masked. I was surprised to find that two of the four Residents members appeared to be women. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 07:32
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I saw the same show - afterwards there was some debate about whether they were women or not. There were 3 eyeballs and Mr Skull, though 2 of the eyeballs were dance/mime artists. Most of the music came from the Emulator, except for Snakefinger's amazing guitar. An unforgettable performance. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 07:55
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I actually met a Resident once (maybe). True story: I grew up in San Mateo, California, the Residents adopted hometown, so listening to The Residents was always a matter of civic pride. Sometime in the late '70s my buddy Todd and I (the Prog Rock art nerds of our graduating class in high school) made a pilgrimage to 444 Grove Street in San Francisco, an otherwise unassuming building underneath the Central Freeway (I think the freeway has since been demolished, and probably the building too, in the gentrification of The City, but that was long after I left California). Anyway, while we were standing around outside, shifting our feet and twiddling our thumbs and wondering what to do, a guy walks up with a key and unlocks the door. We talk for a minute. Yes, he says, this is where The Residents record their stuff. He had a slightly nasal southern accent but there was nothing else remotely remarkable about him. That's the entire story. But could it be...? |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 13:06
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The Residents are not human, but merely puppets controlled by sentient worm-like creatures who operate them through a complex system of levers and pulleys. Either that, or they're just blokes who like dressing up. I can sympathise with that. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 13:53
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They are aliens from the same planet as Jean and I. There are two sentient races on this planet: One is completely hairless, but else look exactly like human beings, the other has eyeballs for heads. The one with the skull had an accident, in which his eyeball burst, leaving only the skull beneath. The two races co-exist in peace meanwhile, but there is a long and dark history of wars between them. (King Crimson mention one war on their album "Lizard"; "The Battle of the Glass Tears" is a famous battle in history, in which our side won). -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: A Guy
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 14:23
Maybe they wear masks so that people will start forum topics about them.
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Posted By: Winterfamily
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 14:33
I wonder how huge the tears would have been... But... Wait! They don't have tear glands! They can't cry! ------------- "If I only had time..." |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: October 27 2005 at 16:53
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All I know about them is that they're from Antarctica and all of them are former members of The Beatles... -------------  |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 13:53
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The Residents are two men and two women, two couples... ...they are ABBA in disguise. ABBA started in 1973, the same year as The Residents. ABBA's last LP iis entitled "The Visitors", a notion that easily can be associated with "Residents"... ...or maybe not. This theory is perhaps more absurd than all the other Residents theories. |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: October 28 2005 at 14:13
They're kinda like Buckethead. They never really showed up the face, so
you might just get to one conclusion: They aren't using masks or
disguises. 
------------- And above all, is punk 
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Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: June 04 2006 at 17:28
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they are actually the Beatles in disguise...John Lennon and George Harrison faked their deaths to complete the illusion, and Ringo and Paul didn't to...um...complete the illusion further! also, the 'real' Paul and Ringo are actually fake. there was just that much more money in Residential music.
or...no! they're actually Lennon, Harrison, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix! or no, that'd make 4 guitarists, that's no good...
okay here we go. they are Frank Zappa, Lennon, Beefheart, and...uh...some guy.
Really i think the whole point is to NOT know who they are. That way they'll still exist in the year 2100 and nobody will be the wiser...that's almost creepy...a deathless prog band...
On Captain Beefheart and Zappa, it's interesting to note that the Residents were fans of both (they sent their "Warner Brothers Album" to the guy who signed the Captain there; also, they did a cover of "king kong"). There is a mysterious "N. Senada" they mention a lot in connection with their work (and San Mateo and Snakefinger). Further adding mystery, Ensenada Drive is where Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band recorded "Safe as Milk" and "Trout Mask Replica". Perhaps Senada was Beefheart himself, or someone in connection...?
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: June 04 2006 at 18:48
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It is said that the Residents were from Shreveport, Louisiana originally. (Maybe one of them is Britney Spears' grampa? Horrors.....)
Back in the mid-'60s there was a band from Shreveport called John Fred & His Playboy Band. They were a one-hit wonder, scoring a #1 hit in 1967 called "Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)", before disappearing up their own asses.
Some rock critic - might have been Chuck Eddy, I'm not sure - theorized that John Fred & His Playboy Band left for San Francisco shortly thereafter and became the Residents.
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: June 04 2006 at 19:37
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The Residents were embedded informants in California hippy communes in the 60s and now they're in the government's witness protection program.
well, it's a theory. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 16:02
Wow!. Now thats a sight I need to see to believe ------------- 
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 16:53
I think they're aliens controlled by the grand cosmik machine located in the center of cygnus X-1 controlled by the walrus slaves of the illuminati.  -------------  
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 17:00
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I think they are one of my best favourites bands, and I think I kind of gently hate oyu because you had the chance to see them playing, wich has to be quite something, I think some of tem maybe women, sine sometimes you can hear women - like voices on their albums and live acts, and I still they are absolutelly fantastic, and totally weird. Masks, I think they use them just for the fun of it. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 23:26
I tink I had another favorite band  no matter for what planet they came for.
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