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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Episode 5 - A Channel, Not A Creator - Let Me Be Frank


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"Art Of A Shaman" Chapter 5 text: http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham5.html

Follow the Let Me Be Frank Channel: https://vimeo.com/channels/letmebefrank

MUSIC
(in order of appearance)

“How To Handle An Anthropologist - The Narc”
Voices:
Frank Moore by Linda Mac
Russell Shuttleworth by himself

Opening title music:
“Special Rate Sherry”
written, arranged and produced by Vinnie Spit Santino
from the album, “At War With Nature”

“The Narc” background music:
“A Snort Of Derision”
written, arranged and produced by Vinnie Spit Santino
from the album, “At War With Nature”

“Warning” music:
Piano by Frank Moore.
An excerpt from a live performance,
“Sing Along, Jam Along, Play Along, Dance Along,
Rub Along, Move Along with Frank Moore”
for Leslie Baker's Salon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada via Skype
Recorded March 10, 2012

“Let Me Be Frank” (the song)
written, arranged, performed and produced by
Vinnie Spit Santino
recorded, mixed and mastered at Vinali Creative Group, Van Nuys, CA by
Vinnie Spit Santino
Vinnie Spit Santino - lead vocals, all guitars, bass
Frank Moore - vocals on bridge
Rebecca Kyler Downs - backing vocals and all harmonies
Gary Ponder - drums
Drake Peterson - trumpet
Tony Rinaldi - trombone

Chapter title animation music:
“Silenced”
by +DOG+
from the album, "the misery of endless suffering"
LEM-162 2015

Chapter background music:
by Phog Masheeen

“Orange Socks”
by Fluff Grrl

“Tribal Performance” background music:
by Sander Roscoe Wolff

Closing credits music:
“Tragically Hip”
written by Jonathan Kochmer & Sarah Scott
performed by Two Loons For Tea
Recorded live on Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den
August 26, 2006

“To Be Free”
written and performed by Tha Archivez
Longhorn Entertainment

Photos by:
Jim Appleton
Ken Jennings
Tracy Kauffman-Wood
Eric Kroll
Michael LaBash
Daniel Lorenze
Linda Mac
Alexi Malenky
Debbie Moore
Kevin Rice
David Steinberg
Mary Sullivan

Illustrations/Artwork by:
Lee Kay
Michael LaBash
Kayla Moon
Frank Moore
Justin Page
John Seabury

Additional footage:
Dave Swan’s Dog House
Betty Boop: “Minnie The Moocher” by Max Fleischer [Public Domain]
Betty Boop: “I Heared” by Max Fleischer [Public Domain]
Three Stooges: “Disorder In The Court” [Public Domain]

Editing, Animation, and Title Design:
Michael LaBash

Produced by
Linda Mac & Michael LaBash

Directed by
Frank Moore
Thanks to all of the readers so far ...
Tha Archivez
Kenneth Atchley
Attaboy
Dr. Susan Block
Paul Couillard
Steve Davis
Stephen Emanuel
Paul Escriva
  Edna Floretta
Barbara Golden
Fred Hatt
John the Baker
Dr. Richard Kerbavaz
Michael LaBash
Lob
Kirk Lumpkin
Linda Mac
Alexi Malenky
Jake McGee
Kayla Moon
Corey Nicholl
Carl Off
Vinnie Spit Santino
Erika Shaver-Nelson
Russell Shuttleworth
Linda Carmella Sibio
Gerald Smith
Megan Soriano
Annie Sprinkle
David Steinberg
Veronica Vera
Martha Wilson

And thanks to all of the musicians who have created and contributed music for this project so far …
K. Atchley
Stephen Emanuel
Father of Skins
Barbara Golden
Phog Masheeen
Vinnie Spit Santino
Sander Roscoe Wolff
Jerome T. Youngman (Mutant Press)

Thanks to Vinnie Spit Santino for the title!

http://frankadelic.com

Originally we had planned to do a documentary about Frank's life and work because we have so much footage and so many photographs. But we did not want to do a "normal" talking head style documentary. We realized that Frank had already written a biography of sorts in his book, "Art of a Shaman" so we decided to try to use that as the "script" for the video. We decided to see if we could get people who were important to Frank and had played a part in his life to each read a chapter of the book. After drafting the email and sending it out we were blown away at the immediate response and the project took off. We assigned chapters to readers using the random principle ... as Frank loved to do ... pulling a piece of paper with a chapter number written on it from a bag as we read a person's name.

Once we had all of the recordings of the readings and added up the time, the documentary was going to be at least 3 hours long ... and it was going to take a really long time to put together. We then had a eureka on a walk one day.... we could put each chapter out on the web as we create  them  ... as episodes!

Several musicians are now creating "background music" for each episode.

Way back at the beginning, when we first had the thought of even doing a documentary about Frank, we asked Vinnie Spit Santino if he would write a song for it, without any idea how we would use it ... or what we were even doing with the documentary. Vinnie wrote the amazing "Let Me Be Frank" that will be the opening song for each episode ... and the title of the series!

Wrapping/Rocking



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A segment from the web video series LET ME BE FRANK, Episode 4.
Website for the series: http://frankadelic.com/

“Wrapping/Rocking”
Poem by Frank Moore
Chanted by Michael LaBash
Background music:
excerpt from “Body Music”
performed by Frank Moore’s Chero Company
Michael LaBash, Alexi Malenky, Rourke Smith & Leigh
Thumbnail photo by Kevin Rice

Friday, December 9, 2016

Out Of Isolation: Rehearsal - Studio J, Berkeley, California, May 1, 1995



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This video of a rehearsal for OUT OF ISOLATION when I directed it as a play is one of the most warmly erotic things I have done. In fact the whole rehearsal process with Corey as Jim [my role in the film] and Bonnie as Jane was always deeply erotic. But when they got on stage [where I as the director was powerless] most of the erotic juice disappeared.

Watch other rehearsals:
Out Of Isolation - Rehearsal, Curtis Street, April 18, 1995:
https://archive.org/details/outofisolation-curtisst-041895
Out Of Isolation: Rehearsal - Studio J, Berkeley, California, April 24, 1995:
https://archive.org/details/outofisolation-studioJ-RodDailey-042495

Male Lust Reading at Cody's Bookstore



Two of Frank Moore's poems, “Rings of Orgasm” & “Out of Isolation” were published in the book MALE LUST: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation, an anthology edited by Kerwin Kay, Jill Nagle & Baruch Gould and published in April 2000.

Frank Moore and Linda Mac read those two poems at Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley on 11/28/00 at an event for the release of this book. It also featured readings by other writers included in the anthology. This is Frank's segment.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow


“Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
Performed by Andrew Poisoner and Frank Moore
Recorded live on Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den
February 24, 2002

Free audio file download available here: https://archive.org/details/frankmoore2002-02-24
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