Erotic Play (NSFW)

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This video explores what happens when people of all types and ages are given a chance to return to being a kid again. A simple game of dress-up becomes a powerful metaphor for dropping taboos, releasing creative emotion, and for dramatic change. As a result, an innocent eroticism is found ... as well as getting intimate with 60 humans.

I edited EROTIC PLAY with two remotes taped on a table before me using my head pointer. What we do when we have no money and when we are ahead of the technology! We just made videos and put them in our closet. And now the same videos are being watched by people all over the world on THE FRANK MOORE CHANNEL [even on their television]! Thank God we didn't care whether people would ever see the stuff. We just did them to do them! And now we have a shit load of content!

Episode 3 - Art of Reshaping Reality - Let Me Be Frank

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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!

"Art of A Shaman" Chapter 3 text: http://eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham3.html

Watch more episodes at http://frankadelic.com

Reading by:
Michael LaBash


MUSIC
(in order of appearance)

Opening 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:
by Michael LaBash

Background music:
by Sander Roscoe Wolff

How Mikee Met Frank:
“Day of The Tomorrow Men”
written and arranged and produced by Vinnie Spit Santino
from the album, “At War With Nature”

Reader bio:
Excerpt from “Water Music III”
by Michael LaBash

Closing credits music:
“Mad Funk Jam at Frank Moore’s House"
written by Jerome T. Youngman
performed by Mutant Press
500 Pound Weasel Records

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


PHOTOS:
Jim Appleton
Les Barany
Ken Jennings
Steve Jennings
Tracy Kauffman-Wood
Eric Kroll
Michael LaBash
Daniel Lorenze
Linda Mac
Alexi Malenky
Diana Meyer
Debbie Moore
Colleen Neff
Dave Patrick
Kevin Rice
Annie Sprinkle
David Steinberg
Mary Sullivan

ILLUSTRATIONS:
David Hochbaum
Lee Kay
Michael LaBash
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]
One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963) [Public Domain]
First Year Anniversary of the Berlin Wall (1962) [Public Domain]
One World or None (1946) [Public Domain]
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) directed by Robert Wiene [Public Domain]
The Night Of The Living Dead (1968) by George A. Romero [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
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 music for this project so far …
K. Atchley
Stephen Emanuel
Barbara Golden
Phog Masheeen
Vinnie Spit Santino
Sander Roscoe Wolff

Thanks to the crew at Coffee Conscious for keeping us going!

Thanks to Vinnie Spit Santino for the title!

See other episodes at http://frankadelic.com

Frank Moore’s Vimeo account was terminated!

On Wednesday August 21, 2019, Vimeo abruptly terminated Frank's account for violating their “guidelines”. 

Frank had over 700 videos in his account that we have been uploading on a weekly basis for over eight years. His videos had over 33 million plays on Vimeo.com.

It will take us a while to get them all back up at a new place ... but they will slowly start appearing here again as we upload them to their new home!

Dancing In The Passion Cave

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A performance by Frank Moore
Saturday, December 4, 2004
Wildcat Studio, Berkeley, CA

Frank Moore wrote on Monday, December 06, 2004

Well, Saturday night’s performance, Dancing In The Passion Cave at the WILDCAT STUDIO was extremely simple…I wasn’t even nude! But it was extremely powerful. The obvious dance was the naked dance between Linda and Erika explicitly expressing the intimate relationship that we are together. The question, are they making love?, was whispered quite a few times during the 3 hours of pleasure being together in a relaxed slowness. Meanwhile I was sitting/talking with Sarah who came to the performance “to find happiness.” Dr. Oblivious and Geoff jammed masterfully living music, playing off of both the dance and what was happening with Sarah and me, melting everything together. The third element of the ritual was the twin black brothers [fans of my B-TV shows] buzzing around the space in their wheelchairs…very cute!

We didn’t even have time to shut the overhead lights off before the magical trance kicked in. I just pulled Sarah from the audience and off we went! Right off the bat she said she doesn’t let ANYONE ever take photos of her…but she would let us video her at the performance. She said she doesn’t like to touch [except her dogs], didn’t have sex/make love, wears layers of clothing ALWAYS  to protect herself from the outside, to make sure she doesn’t lose her self to AN OTHER. Very quickly she and I were holding hands and rubbing NUDE ARMS together!...without her losing her self! Soon I was rubbing her padded bra [I have been running into a lot of them recently!]. By the end of the night she was banging on her bra with a drumstick [inspired by Jen Wilson’s CONGA CUNT], pounding my poems [which she read aloud] into her body! At the end of the night, she said she had found happiness. Guess that performance was a success! And what a way to end a year!

See the poster for the performance here:
https://eroplay.com/posters2/pgtwo45.html

Episode 7 - 48-Hour Process - How To Handle An Anthropologist

From the book, How To Handle An Anthropologist. http://www.eroplay.com/hthaa/
True stories, as told to Russell Shuttleworth PhD, from the life of shaman, performance artist, writer, poet, painter, rock singer, director, TV show host, teacher & bon vivant FRANK MOORE.

This ongoing animated segment was created for the web series, "Let Me Be Frank": https://vimeo.com/channels/letmebefrank

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”

“48-Hour Process” background music:
“A Snort of Derision”
written, arranged and produced by Vinnie Spit Santino
from the album, “At War With Nature”

“48-Hour Process” appears in Episode 14 “Playing with Reality” of “Let Me Be Frank”:
https://vimeo.com/345391366

How To Handle An Anthropologist showcase: https://vimeo.com/album/3375648

Episode 15 - Sex? - Let Me Be Frank

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"Art Of A Shaman" Chapter 15 text: http://www.eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham15.html

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

Reading by:
Carl Off

MUSIC
(in order of appearance)

“Think”
by Frank Moore
from the album “Frank Moore’s Rock of Passion”

“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:
by Michael LaBash

Chapter background music:
by Sander Roscoe Wolff

Transition/bio music:
“L’amour Du Nil (PoppyLove Mix)”
by Hop-Frog's Drum Jester Devotional
from the album “Bets Ov Vol. 1”

Closing credits:
The Leeches
from the UK
recorded live on
Frank Moore’s Shaman’s Den
April 20, 2003

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

Bonus:
Vinnie Spit Santino, Gary Ponder
and Rebecca Kyler Downs
laying down tracks for
“Let Me Be Frank”

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

Illustrations by:
Lee Kay
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 Titles:
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 …
Kenneth 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!

See other episodes at
http://frankadelic.com