The Druds
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The Druds was a short-lived 1963 avant-garde band founded by Andy Warhol,[1] that featured prominent members of the early New York conceptual art community.
Minimalist sculptor Walter De Maria played drums, painter Larry Poons played guitar, and minimal composer La Monte Young played the saxophone (but finding it ridiculous, quit after the second rehearsal);[2] artist and poet Patty Mucha (then Patty Oldenburg, as she was married to sculptor Claes Oldenburg) was the lead singer.[3] Jasper Johns wrote neodada lyrics as did Warhol who also occasionally sang.[4] Warhol wrote the songs The Alphabet Song, Movie Stars, Hollywood and Coca-Cola.[5][6][3] Happening artists Gloria Graves[7] and Lucas Samaras also sang with the group.[8]
The band's sound has been compared to that of Henry Flynt as well as Lou Reed and John Cale's early band the Primitives, formed prior to the Velvet Underground.[9]
References
- ↑ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ↑ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- 1 2 Russeth, Andrew (January 16, 2012). "Six Feet of the 1960s and '70s: Patty Mucha—Once Mrs. Oldenburg—on Her Archives and New Memoir | Gallerist NY". GalleristNY. Archived from the original on January 23, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
- ↑ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ↑ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ↑ Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Workat the Frist Center for the Visual Arts by Robert Stalker
- ↑ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ↑ FROM WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT The Velvet Underground DAY BY DAY
- ↑ Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Workat the Frist Center for the Visual Arts by Robert Stalker
