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Destroy All Monsters, Geisha This, 1975-1979

DAM! From yesterday at the Music Expo Plastic (until 2 April at the Gallery of the Day, 44 rue Quicampois, Paris), reviewed - framed under glass, like a pure work of art, the book Geisha This! Either the reprint of first six issues of the fanzine that New Stoogiens of Destroy All Monsters self-publishing in Michigan between 1975 and 1979 - at the same time, they left a handful of singles in sharp abrasive punk angel.
end of 1976, the group will split into two entities: two original members, Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw will stop playing, leaving room for Ron Asheton of the Stooges orphan, to dedicate himself to the visual propaganda of the group. Then eventually become the artists we know. This
Geisha was published first in 1995 and reprinted twice since, still below 1000 copies - if although even this third edition at Colette found an afternoon gland there are six or seven years is now often more than $ 100. But there are, head in the bag to vomit, the whole subculture rock n 'roll: Erotica vintage monster movies, comic con like feet, collages hocus pocus, lysergic colors and maximum aggression. And especially especially especially drawings ... some made by a young Mike Kelley, and another by the singer, the exuberant Niagara.













funny cartoonist, Niagara ... discovering what she did in 1974 already, you'll realize that without it Charles Burns is not the cyberpunk nightmare it is today. So you look at all the grub proliferating, and it makes you almost the same effect as if you are sipping the juice through a straw brains of an art student in Ann Arbor in the last row of the 70, making disks and scribbled drawings for the sole purpose of pissing the world.

"Destroy all monsters WAS Formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan In The winter of 1974. Were The Founding members: Cary Loren, Niagara, Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley.
I am Mike Kelley. Shaw, Niagara, and I met as fellow students at the art school of the University of Michigan in 1972. In fact, Niagara was one of the first people i met in Ann Arbor. I sat next to her on a bus ; she was the only freak in a denim sea of laid-back hippiedom. The early Seventies was a period of hippie blandness, the external sign of which was cliched notions of the « natural ». The farmer look was in ; « wood music » was its soundtrack. In contrast, Niagara had an alluring in-your-face drag queen kind of beauty. She was a « superstar ». Niagara drop out after her first year of school. Her aesthetic was already formed. She ignored classes to spend time on her strange morbid little drawings. »

Destroy All Monsters, Geisha This , Book Beat Gallery, 1995

Bonus Audio:
Destroy All Monsters - Bored
Destroy All Monsters - November 22, 1963