Let Me Be Frank video screening & jam, Adobe Books, San Francisco

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Recorded February 14, 2020
This screening and jam are held in conjunction with the Frank Moore & Labash Art Show during the month of February, 2020 at Adobe Books in San Francisco. (See the art show here: https://archive.org/details/adobe-books-art-show-feb2020-edit
You can watch the two episodes that were shown:
EPISODE 1: A Lucky Guy: https://archive.org/details/letmebefrankepisode01
EPISODE 12: Outrageous Beauty Revue: https://archive.org/details/letmebefrankepisode12
Watch all episodes here: http://frankadelic.com

From the poster:

Let Me Be Frank video screening
On Valentine’s Day,  the first ever live screening of episodes from the web video documentary series, Let Me Be Frank, based on the life and art of shaman, performance artist, writer, poet, painter, rock singer, director, TV show host, teacher and bon vivant, Frank Moore.
Come EARLY and bring your musical instruments for a music jam before the screening!
Friday, Feb. 14, 2020
5-6:30pm – MUSIC JAM
6:30-8pm – LET ME BE FRANK screening and Q&A 
FREE!
Adobe Books, 3130 24th Street, San Francisco, CA  94110

The Art of Frank Moore & LaBash

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Adobe Books, San Francisco, California
Sunday, Feb. 2 – Saturday Feb. 15, 2020

The first ever showing of shaman performance artist Frank Moore’s erotic innocent primitive passionate digital art, alongside the funny/disturbing/mind-scrambling/reality-bending drawings of LaBash.

Episode 16 - Eroplay - Let Me Be Frank

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"Art Of A Shaman" Chapter 16 text: https://eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham16.html

Watch more episodes at http://frankadelic.com 

Readings by:
Fred Hatt and Dr. Susan Block

MUSIC
(in order of appearance)

“Eroplay”
Chanted by Michael LaBash
Background music:
excerpt from “Body Music”
performed by Frank Moore’s Chero Company
Michael LaBash, Alexi Malenky, Rourke Smith & Leigh

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:
excerpt from “Body Music”
performed by Frank Moore’s Chero Company
Michael LaBash, Alexi Malenky, Rourke Smith & Leigh

Chapter background music:
by Michael LaBash

Transition/bio music:
“Soul Rain”
By Tha Archivez

Closing credits:
Extreme Elvis
The Fuck The War Ball
Burnt Ramen, Richmond, California
November 17, 2001

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

PHOTOS:
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:
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 …
Tha Archivez
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

Raw Footage - Out of Isolation - tape 2

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Recorded June 19, 1987
More Raw Footage:....
See the edited video here: https://archive.org/details/outofisolation

Dying is Sexy - Toronto, Canada, August 1999

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A 48-HOUR PERFORMANCE BY FRANK MOORE FOR FADO'S "TIME TIME TIME" IN TORONTO, CANADA, AUGUST 27-29, 1999.

When Paul Couillard first invited Frank to perform at his festival TIME TIME TIME he told Frank that the series was inspired by Frank’s extended time performances. Frank said he would like to do a 72 hour performance for this series. This was almost two years before the performance was scheduled to happen. During that two year period Frank performed at a weeklong festival the WE FEST in Wilmington North Carolina after which he got pneumonia and was hospitalized and was very sick and had this 72 hour performance coming up in Toronto! So Frank changed it to a 48 hour performance, had Paul rent him a hospital bed and changed the name of the performance to DYING IS SEXY figuring if he died during the performance it would be on theme!

For more details about the performance: http://eroplay.com/Cave/dyingissexy/dyinghome.html
Free audio file download of the jam available here: http://archive.org/details/frankmoore1999-08-27

How to Handle an Anthropologist, Session 4

Recorded August 15, 1997

In 1997 Frank was contacted by Russell Shuttleworth, a then University of California, Berkeley, graduate student,  working on his Master’s Thesis, which was a research study to help understand how men with moderate to severe cerebral palsy experience and interpret their search for intimacy and sexual relationships in the face of significant social and cultural barriers or as Frank called it, "The Sexual Practices of Bay Area Men with Cerebral Palsy"!!! He wanted to interview Frank for this thesis. That interview quickly segued into 12 years of him interviewing Frank about Frank's life. Meanwhile, Frank encouraged Russell to live his dreams which resulted in Russell aka Dr. Gruve, djing a show on our LUVeR internet radio station for years and playing the harmonica in Frank's Cherotic All-Star Band for many years. They did 88 interviews in all, even continuing via Skype when Russell moved to Australia to teach there. Russell is now a Medical Anthropologist PhD and a member of the faculty at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria Australia. We have the first twelve of these sessions on videotape. We are in the process of transcribing and editing all of the interviews into a book that Frank named "How to Handle an Anthropologist", http://www.eroplay.com/hthaa/.

Nonfilms - Varda

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Recorded in the early 1980's.

This video is an example of how a session can suddenly crack into deeper layers of different emotions, into tears, into questioning, all the while remaining incredibly erotic. Varda was a poet and a film maker who talked about her art with me and read some of her poems, all  the while wearing see-through costumes and other times nude.  But then she insisted that she was really shy and why was I so insensitive as to not  see that.  And that is when the video really gets interesting!